INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
described your meeting? Want to protect your Zoom calls from trolls by making attendees RSVP to get your link? ZmURL.com has you
covered.Launching today, ZmURL is a free tool that lets you customize your Zoom video call invite URL with a title, explanation and image
that will show up when you share the link on Twitter, Facebook or elsewhere
ZmURL also lets you require that attendees RSVP by entering their email address so you can decide who to approve and provide with the actual
But with people trapped inside by coronavirus, its daily user count has spiked from 10 million to 200 million
Eric Yuan has apologized.Yet Zoom has been slow to adapt it features as it struggles not to buckle under its sudden scale
While it has turned on waiting rooms and host-only screensharing by default for usage in schools, most people are still vulnerable due to
Only today did Zoom concede to shifting the balance further from convenience to safety, turning on waiting rooms by default and requiring
passwords for entry by Meeting ID.Meanwhile, social networks have become a sea of indistinguishable Zoom links that all show the same blue
and white logo in the preview, with no information on what the call is about
That makes it a lot tougher to promote calls, which many musicians, fitness instructors and event producers are relying on to drive
and his co-founder Danqing Liu are here to help with ZmURL
The two software engineers fittingly met over Zoom a year ago and have only met once in person
Pontis, now in San Francisco, had started bike and scooter rental software companies Spring and Scooter Map
Liu, from Beijing but now holed up in New York, had spent five years at Google, Uber and PlanGrid before selling his machine learning tool
from hosting their own classes over Zoom
The duo quickly built a beta, with zero money raised, and tested it with some yoga gurus who found it simplified promoting events and
zoom.us/ji/1231231232 and then punch it into ZmURL
You can upload an image or choose from stock photos and color gradients
Then you name your event, give it a description and set the time and date
Attendees who click will be shown a nicely rendered event page with the link to enter the Zoom call and the option to add it to their
You can try it out here, zmurl.com/aloha, as the startup is hosting a happy hour today at 6pm Pacific.Optionally, you can set your ZmURL
In that case, people who click your link have to submit their email address
The host can then sift through the RSVPs and choose who to email back the link to join the call
seem to be any other tools for customizing Zoom call links
For now, ZmURL is completely free
But the co-founders are building out an option for hosting paid events that collect entry fees on the RSVP site while ZmURL takes a 5%
cut.Next, ZmURL wants to add the ability to link your Zoom account to its site so you can spawn call links without leaving
to a public directory, email marketing tools and integrations with other video call platforms like Hangouts, Skype and FaceTime.Pontis says
the biggest challenge will be learning to translate more of the magic and business potential off offline events into the world of video
It should accept all the help it can get.
