How This Project Built “Zoom for Web 3” - Ayush Ranjan, Huddle01, Ep. 229

<p dir="ltr"><em>This is a sponsored episode from our collaboration with Filecoin<br /> <br /></em></p> <p dir="ltr">Huddle01 is a decentralized video-meeting platform built to be scalable and secure from the get-go and features web 3 functions such as NFT-gated meetings and decentralized storage for meeting recordings.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">In 2022, it hosted over 30,000 meetings that lasted over 500,000 minutes on its platform. </p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Today on Blockcrunch, Huddle01’s Co-Founder Ayush shares with us:</p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Huddle01’s 3-pronged approach to decentralizing communication</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Problems with existing video-conferencing platforms</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How Huddle01 uses Filecoin as its backend</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Path to decentralizing real-time communication worldwide</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Timestamps:</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:00:00) – Introduction to Huddle01</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:03:21) – 3-pronged approach to decentralizing communication</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:07:22) – Problems with Zoom & Google Meets</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:14:49) – Infrastructure behind Huddle01</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:17:22) – Importance of decentralized file storage</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:19:01) – Huddle’s moat over existing offerings</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:21:07) – What Filecoin Virtual Machine unlocks for dApps & users</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:27:29) – Path to decentralizing real-time communication</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:30:50) – Huddle01’s go-to-market strategy</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Sponsor message:</p> <p dir="ltr">Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as