Google Hangouts Reviews

Google Hangouts Reviews

Google Hangouts reviews from startup founders

We use Google Hangouts to message internally and have movie calls.

We use Google Hangouts for movie conferences.

Hangouts is the worst.

We use Google Hangouts and Join.me for calls with screen sharing.

Google Hangouts works well because it is integrated with the Google suite. Sometimes, unluckily, it is not stable.

We use Google Hangouts every day to connect with our offshore team. It is better than Skype. We were able to have twelve people on a call at one time and we could still do screen sharing etc.

We recently upgraded to the standard Slack subscription, since Slack just works well for us. We also use Hangouts for internal meetings.

Google Hangouts is not very user-friendly.

We use Google Hangouts free to create a subdomain you can log in with your email account and invite anyone else that has the same subdomain and is very secure. You can share screens and draw stuff, which is essential to conveying ideas to a remote team of engineers.

We use Google Hangouts and meetings for live connections.

We use also a combination of Hangouts, Talky and Skype for movie talk, depending on which one of them is working better on the day.

I attempted Calendly but I still like to work out a meeting by hand because I feel that people have not caught up to it and choose an in-person interaction.

When we do outer calls, we use Hangouts. Internally, we are around each other every single day but use Skype or Hangouts if we are ever remote.

Founder & Head of Engineering – Opentest

For contractor training & one-on-one communication, Google Hangouts is more cost-effective.

We use Hangouts for internal and outward communication depending on who we are talking to. I choose Hangouts for movie calls over Skype because it’s a web-based app that is plain and ordinary. I also tend to use Hangouts more because it’s integrated with my Google Calendar.

We use Hangouts for movie calls.

We used to use Hangouts for our movie calling needs because it was effortless to use and we were always in Gmail, but the quality wasn’t that excellent. We ended up needing to stir to Zoom which has much better quality movie.

Because we use Google for Work, Google Hangouts is our default team talk with separate circles for different groups.

We use Hangouts fairly a bit for daily meetings.

Everyone is on a different group in Hangouts depending on the situation.

We run our business on Google Apps and every Google instrument integrates well with it.

Right now, we use Hangouts; it integrates with Gmail and is very effortless to access.

We sometimes communicate with GChat because it is very quick. It’s right there on the email.

Hangouts is integrated with Gmail; it is effortless to use and very effective.

We have eighty five funding experts who work for us in diverse cities; all in major hubs across North America. Google Talk is very significant in keeping the conversation going across such a large territory.

Not much needs to be said about Slack, except that it’s still not strong enough for voice and movie calls with our team. I am still using Skype for individual one-on-one calls, and Google Hangouts seems the easiest to use for group team meetings.

For all my movie conferences, I fasten Google Hangouts which makes it very effortless to communicate.

We also use Google Hangouts a lot to do movie conferences. We were using Skype for a while but we had a lot of problems with Skype, most likely because people at ABR use different operating systems (Mac, Linux, PC). Hangouts has been the best cross-platform movie conferencing solution.

Google Hangouts is a instrument that we feel has gotten way better. We use it for our daily standout meetings.

Co-founder & Chief Architect – SwiftIQ

We use Google Talk because it is widely popular.

Screenhero is super sweet. It’s a communication instrument for engineering our product to track down bugs, look at user flows, and we can even use it for calls. It’s much more seamless than getting on a Skype call or Hangouts. Google is excellent, but Hangouts can be super buggy.

The bulk of our internal communication is done via email and Gchat.

Skype is less reliable for movie calls, so we use Google Hangouts for movie calls.

We used to use Slack, and we were actually beta users a few years ago. But we moved away from it because it created too much noise. We just want to get things shipped and done, and it’s significant for us to not add extra noise to everything. We use Google Hangouts now. We’re already using Google Apps, and Hangouts is good for what we need.

Gchat is the easiest contraption for us to use for internal communication. It permits us to communicate quickly.

We use Skype for talk, but ever since Microsoft bought Skype, the quality of their movie calls is much worse than before. So for movie calls, we use Google Hangouts now.

We use Google Hangouts for team movie calls.

We use Skype and Google Hangouts for movie calls.

For calls and movie conferencing, we use Skype, Google Hangouts, and Zoom. The platform used just depends on who is organizing the call and what they choose to use.

Google Hangouts was buggy, so we commenced doing more in Skype. We use Skype for audio and movie calls, as well as texting and group talks. The people we work with are not all in the same place; some are traveling, and others are living in other countries, and we use Skype with them.

We mainly use Google Hangouts for movie talk.

We use Gchat and Skype for internal communication.

We use Google Hangouts for talking via 1:1 talks, and we have total team meetings via Google Hangout twice a week. It makes the distributed office feel closer.

VP of Product Development – RescueTime

We also use Gchat for internal communications. We use a mix of various systems.

We use Google Hangouts for movie calls, phone calls, and talk. We use it for customer conversations and calls, as well as for interoffice chatter. We also use it for speaking with our employees that work remotely.

Senior Network Administrator – Smartsheet

Google Hangouts has been excellent for movie calls.

We use Google Hangouts and Skype for movie calls.

Google’s Hangouts is totally sufficient for us right now. We use it just to talk with each other when we need a quick response, and we’re cognizant of clogging inboxes with unnecessary emails. We’ve heard rumors of this fresh contraption called Slack, which a few people seem to love a little, but we haven’t put it to use yet.

We presently use Google Hangouts for movie conferencing, but the quality is low so we’re researching affordable alternatives.

We use Google Hangouts for all of our movie conferencing. It’s OK, but I find it unreliable at times. It’s especially frustrating on Macs because it will just randomly mute the sound on your microphone.

We conduct all of our meetings, both internal and consumer meetings, on Google Hangouts. We chose it because it’s free. We’re bootstrapped, so we always like free. And indeed, it just works superb for us. We did have a problem early on with an unwanted and uninvited person demonstrating up in a meeting, but Google seems to have plugged that slot, and we haven’t had a problem since.

We’re already using Google for everything else like email, file sharing and analytics, so it was natural for us to use Google Hangouts.

Google Hangouts is very plain to use and integrate, especially if all of our employees are using Gmail and other Google Apps.

Director of Operations – Inxent, Inc.

We’re all in different parts of the world, so on occasion we’ll do a blessed hour and sit on Hangouts and drink, which is joy, but we mostly communicate through Teamwork Projects. We just chose Hangouts for convenience. It’s free, and I honestly don’t see any benefit for something like HipChat over the other free stuff when we’re this puny. We want to stay lean where we can.

Google Hangouts is free, and I love its movie conferencing feature. Our developers are overseas, so it’s indeed nice to have face-to-face conversations.

We use this contraption indeed because we don’t have a lot of specific needs for our communication. We don’t need Slack, and Google Hangouts is free, right there and integrates with our email.

The movie wigs out all the time.

I (also) use Slack to communicate with other ed-tech companies and founders. When we grow, we’ll most likely switch to Slack.

This was an effortless choice–everyone is already familiar with Google products.

I used it personally before the Journey Bar. It’s effortless, intuitive and free, which was flawless for us.

We use Google Hangouts at times.

VP Finance & Operations – willa

We sometimes use Google Hangouts for presentations across numerous offices, screensharing, and as an alternative to Skype.

Google Hangouts is ideal for us because we have a lot of international people. We’ll use Skype sometimes, but because we’re always in Gmail, it’s effortless to get in touch through Hangouts and gchat.

Co-founder Stage: Seed – Sailo

We use Slack for communication among our engineers, and everyone else uses Google Hangouts.

We use Google Hangouts because everyone is already on Gmail all the time. It’s a good enough solution that we don’t need Slack just yet.

We’ve been having some issues with Google Hangouts lately–it lags, movie pulling down, hiccupping.

Founding Fucking partner, Chief Product Officer – Reboot

Slack & Google Hangouts are free, effortless, and provide a good central hub for our communications.

Right now, the company is truly just two of us (we have good advisors and interns but only two full-time employees), so there’s no need for anything more than Google Talk. While Susan (my co-founder) was in China, we would FaceTime all the time. Once we get thicker, we’ll very likely switch over to something like Slack but haven’t had the need yet.

Stacklist Stats

19% Stacklist Startups Are Using Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts – Best Communication & Collaboration Contraptions for Startups

Google Hangouts is an internal communication contraption that permits for group talk, photo sharing, movie talk for up to ten people and automatic archiving. Like most other Google products, it both integrates seamlessly with other Google apps and is free to use. Hangouts runs on Android and iOS, permitting you to take your work on the go. A number of Stacklist users report having experienced some technical glitches with Hangouts–like buggy video–but the draw of the Google platform and its price point are enough to maintain a large user base.

How startups use Google Hangouts?

Customers run the gamut of size and stage, from seed-stage up to series B.

How much does Google Hangouts cost?

Google Hangouts is free to use with any Google account. However, international calls cost points that must be purchased with Google Wallet.

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