Hey Lincoln,

Very interesting idea, good luck with the sale and your new endeavor. It's definitely not easy supporting a commercial video chat app these days. There are a few things I'd like to point out though, for anyone following the discussion.

On your site you say that ooVoo doesn't work well for group chat on mobile devices. I’d like to say otherwise. Have you ever checked out the all new ooVoo mobile video chat SDK?

We recently soft launched our mobile video chat SDK, so we haven't advertised yet, but I invite everyone on HN to check it out: http://developer.oovoo.com. We've spent quite a bit of time building out a killer SDK (and all the related additions to our backend) for mobile video chat. Right now our SDK supports iOS and Android, and we have a Windows phone version coming in about a month, and yes, even blackberry too is coming soon. We’re working on adding new features like crazy and we also have a native desktop SDK and WebRTC support (with some nice tricks ;)) coming down the pipe which will let you do desktop <—> mobile chat. It’s so easy even a 9 year old can do it: http://readwrite.com/2013/10/07/teen-hackers#awesm=~osusMMqT...

Don’t take my word for it though, check it out. If you want to see how well it works, you can find our sample app on github: https://github.com/oovoodev/iOS-SDK-Sample (NOTE: You still need to download the SDK to compile the sample app, because it needs some of the bits from the SDK bundle.)

In terms of quality, we recently shipped our patented SuperClear technology which greatly improves the quality and experience of desktop AND mobile video. Especially in situations of network congestion/degradation. Users have been pretty happy, we've consistently maintained a 4/4.5 star rating on the Apple App Store. You can feel free to try it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oovoo-video-call-text-voice/.... We are also consistently rated as having the best overall quality of any consumer video chat product.

Our infrastructure is world class, our A/V cloud is distributed all over the world so that we can support over 90+ Million users doing hundreds of thousand of concurrent calls every month. Thats over a billion minutes!! It’s no easy feat but we do it because we are love providing the best quality video chat experience no matter what platform you’re on. We’re also committed to giving developers the best experience possible. We’ve spent years building out our services and infrastructure and so we are happy to open it all up to developers now. We’re also network agnostic, so no need for you or users of your app to have an account on any social network if you don’t want them too, not even an ooVoo account. It’s also a fair bit cheaper than buying an app outright, it’s just .005 cents a minute (half a cent) to build something kick ass.

We have more than a few hundred developers who have been playing with our SDK, everything from consulting shops, to shopping apps, to large TV networks and the feedback has been great. We’re glad to open it up and we do our best so that you can do your best and we’ll take you as far as your imagination will go. For any questions/comments you can email oovoodev@oovoo.com.