In Q3 we refined our product pillars and production process. Q4 has been about putting that foundation into practice.
Product Development Highlights
Intuitive Comms UI
Communication is a backbone USP of the platform, supporting our Connection pillar, so we’ve given it some love.
Users are now shown how far their voice is traveling in spatial audio, as well as who can expect to hear them, whenever they move around.
New streamlined controls & notifications for moving between room-wide megaphone mode and localized spatial audio microphone.
Radically Enhanced Audio/Video
Double A’s audio/video tech is entirely our own, and we’ve made some massive strides on that front, supporting our Connection pillar.
Audio and video are now even more performant than before, ensuring little to no dropped frames, delays, popping or any other issues.
This approach allows us to support a scale of concurrent users that radically exceeds competition. We’re also not tied into any endless licensing contracts, or tied to anyone else’s roadmap.
Truly Multiplatform
Focusing on our Access pillar, we’ve rolled out beta support on iOS, & full support on Android.
We’ve deployed a scalable UI system that allows the product to live its best life, regardless of the platform/device it’s accessed on.
Just for fun: showing Double A now working on a digital whiteboard :) | Double A: now on iOS |
Analytics
V1 of our self-serve Analytics Dashboard is shipping now, supporting our Creation pillar.
Moderators can filter by room, date range, and get an analytics roll-up for grazing.
They can also export a CSV to get more granular data, that can be plugged into any data visualization suite
Updated Roles, Permissions & Invite Code System
In support of our Creation pillar, we’ve revamped our roles/permissions structure to better serve our customers’ robust spectrum of needs/scenarios, as well as to support the evolution of our packaging & pricing.
We’re now able to assign temporary “Engagement Levels,” instead of setting permissions on all users as semipermanent roles. This has allowed us to create an Invite Code System, which supports short-term or guest users who need to bypass Spectator Mode limits or be assigned speaker roles without authentication.
There are internal permissions that we aren’t telegraphing on this customer-facing sheet here, but it will give you an idea.
Coming Up Next
Broadcast Mode - Ability to broadcast across all rooms simultaneously.
Enhanced Room List - More responsive, dynamic, providing deeper control for creators & hosts.
Project Fireball - The fun stuff :) We’re designing a system of persistent gamification of all interactions on the platform, creating deeper incentive, buy-in, stickiness, and radically supporting our Connection pillar. Users can send each other reactions. Below is an early prototype. Really excited about this one!