One week ago Zoom Apps went LIVE. They can be used in any meeting, including virtual events. This will walk through our favorite 3 with a bonus 4th app coming soon.

What is a Zoom App? Zoom Apps are embedded into your desktop Zoom app, and enhance your experience. The screenshots below should help clarify :)

1. Heyyo Chat — Supercharged In-Meeting Messaging

In large calls attendees will be stuck mostly in the chat. This can make it hard to feel engaged, and can make it challenging as a host to stay motivated. Heyyo is expressive: full of emotes, reactions, and more. …

By: Helena Merk, co-founder, and CEO of Glimpse

👋 Hello! Today we’re excited to announce Glimpse is working with Zoom. We’re launching an App for Zoom to superpower your chat: Heyyo Chat.

I probably don’t have to tell you that dating apps kinda suck. For me, it boils down to two main problems:
(1) swipe superficiality, and
(2) awkward post-match engagement.

Apps like Hinge and Monet have iterated on problem #1, changing the matching process with questions and drawings, respectively. They have yet to solve #2 and lack market adoption in general. Other approaches include focusing on specific markets — for example, LGBTQ+ dating apps like HER, offer community angles with a focus on acceptance. Some try to increase the market size by adding “looking for friends” as a filter

Despite everything…

While building our weekly coding cabana hack, we realized we’d need wildcard subdomain redirects. A guide like this would have made the infra piece take 10 minutes — I hope this helps you with your project!

Here’s what we built:

Zoom With Me: Custom Zoom Invites!

Anyone can register their custom slug and upload a thumbnail to customize links they send.

For example, Elon’s is elon.onzoom.me (Elon, if you’re reading this please claim your link).

🔢 To Build Your Own…

This guide will cover creating the wildcard subdomain portion of our hack and is intended for people with at least a basic understanding of AWS.

Here’s the 4 steps:

1. Register Your…

Especially remotely, community building is a top concern for students and faculty. This is even more important for special interest groups, honors programs, and scholarship recipients. Texas A&M is no different.

Our goal with this event was to help students interact more with people in the Engineering Honors community. Given the pandemic, meeting new people and building a social network has become difficult.

— Vicente Trevino, TAMU ‘22

How did you plan your event?

Two members of the Professional Development Committee, Juniors Ahona Jabbar and Vicente Trevino decided to make the best of a remote world, and host a virtual speed networking event!

They started investigating…

Exactly a year ago today, I posted about taking time off of Duke to join a startup in MV. Since then, I left to run Glimpse full-time after receiving funding from Y Combinator and joining the W20 batch.

My original article has resurfaced due to COVID, leading to more than 2 calls a day with students questioning higher academia. While I love calling and discussing if dropping out of school makes sense for you, I hope answers to the most common questions will help you decide on your next steps.

The 6 Most Common Questions I Receive

“How did you know your idea was good enough to…

There’s 16 of us on a zoom birthday call, all of us love the birthday girl to death, yet nobody talks. We’re celebrating her 21st over video 👯‍♂️. We don’t all know each other, and even banter is just plain awkward 🌮. The worry about interrupting others results in nobody talking.

Exhausting!

When done incorrectly, group calls are so exhausting the feeling has created a phrase coined: “Zoom Fatigue.”

If the dreaded fatigue has not hit yet, check out my 4 tips below. If it has, maybe these will reverse the effects! …

Glimpse is the app that will spice up all of your online social events 🥳.

Perfect for any group, from 4 to 400,000 to get to know each other at a deeper level.

You match 1-on-1 via video for 2 minutes at a time.

This post will include:

1. Effortless setup
2. Event Suggestions
3. Customization Features

Effortless Setup

1. Visit joinglimpse.com and make an account.
2. Give your room a fun name and description
3. Click “copy invite” and share the link with everyone you want to invite!

Event Types

Still not sure? Here’s some types events we’ve elevated already:

• Happy Hours: from office happy hours, to Y Combinator…