This "Present your authentic self" bit, showing a cartoon emoji; what is the appeal? Am I supposed to make a cartoon of myself? Do I have to?
Sorry if I could answer these myself if I read more. I suppose my feedback is that I don't want to read more because what I've seen isn't compelling enough.
Having said that, I'm glad to see work is being done in this space. Good luck pressing forward – there's a ton of progress to be made and real productivity gains to uncover.
I love to see innovation in the space of remote work tools and I can confidently say Slack and friends ain't it. I want a experience of serendipity-making leveraging some of the same mechanisms physical office goers make use of.
I should add that I can tell the people behind it are good at their craft and the guiding principles seem like good ones. It’s mostly the marketing that has thrown me off. I also recognize that I might just be too old and crusty to get it.
I used to be with “it” and then they changed what “it” is.
A cartoon self that has limited options isn’t authentic though. It is pretty pointless for me. Note. I have used the app extensively.
I might be a bad prospect because I’m a very literal and surface-level sensing type of person. I’m terrible at reading between lines, seeing past facades, etc. Working with avatars would probably make me feel like I’m in a cartoon, haha. This is definitely not your fault.
I know my oldest kids would love this. They don’t like the formality of things like zoom and they find mostly-text interfaces like slack stifling. By the time they’re in the workforce, if something like this was around they would likely prefer it.
Good luck with this. I’ll keep an eye on it for sure.
If it's chat with a bupbupbup attached, then tell me its a chat with a bupbupbup attached, if you're trying to do 'its a discord, but for programmers and startuppy types' then say that directly.
Shoot me straight next time, today you lost me.
There are also some noticeable differences, particularly: - integrations are focused on work products, eg calendar, rather than what games you are playing etc - rooms (similar to Discord voice channel) can be shared on a calendar for guests - we prioritize different things in screenshare (quality over FPS, since it's for work not gaming)
Like pear cider that's made from 100% pears?
Honestly I get the intent, but I think the parallel to "open door" in a physical space needs to be made more explicit. Even in meatspace it's not an acceptable practice for a group of people to walk into someone's open office and start a conversation without asking if they are free, first.
Whoever solves the problem of socializing in digital work place is going to make out like a bandit and change the world and open up new biz analytics/metrics, gamified pay structures, and more.
It is definitely coming and will be the new normal. Especially as the generation of Fortnite concerts, Halo forge custom discord game meetups, and whatever other freemium games people play get jobs.
Meta knows this as everyone laughs at the billionaire and his virtual world dream.
What you all have here looks a bit boring through that lens. I’d want to test this to see for sure, but why not make this a total blast to use? The GIF looks just like Slack and another miserable work thing.
You’re not competing with Slack. You’re competing with Xbox+Microsoft Office.
I’d shift gears and make the highest priority goal just making literally everything ‘fun’.
When Katherine joins that room it should feel exciting and rewarding and not just another page tab refresh like GIF.
Congrats and great job! Looking forward to seeing your success.
I mean, yes, pre Ramen profitability, saving every cent matters. But there are already calendars, chats, VC apps in the free space that are more likely to stay around than a startup without income.
I wish Pesto success, but I think they'd be better off setting a price soon.
Man, the world sure has gotten weird. It's like, I thought everyone was sort of like me. Turns out most people are a completely different species.
I don't get this from top to bottom. I feel like an 80-year-old looking at the kids in complete and utter bemusement.
There's a huge difference between working remotely with colleagues and "sitting in your boxers not having to go outside". Some of us work with people who don't live in the same city as us, and tools like this make an effort to build up some of the genuine benefits of office work (and in my experience having used a similar tool for a year or so, they do so effectively)
The style may not be to your taste and that's fine, but sometimes you need to look past the presentation to understand something.
I'm at peace with the fact that I won't ever understand it, it's been two years and I'm not even in the industry any more. I'm still entitled to express that.
So should slack only limit us to having professional avatars too? Looking at my 2000+ employee organization, it's all pretty much split between "professional" and "unprofessional" avatars. And what if your startup is something like Chewy? Then coming to work with a dog hat is probably pretty professional actually.
With that said, I'd love it if there was a quick, real life demo on the site to show how this tool actually works, i'd guess that it would help more with conversion than an animated GIF.
All the best.
It was very successful at replicating the feel of booths in an expo hall, and opened my eyes to how much I enjoyed the "audio rooms" concept. Right away, looking at the landing page, I love the idea of having my own little virtual "office" that people could pop in and out of. That's probably the thing I miss most about in-person work: informal, extemporaneous communication (that doesn't take place over text).
I get the feeling that the right audience would absolutely love this product. Good luck, folks!
1. How exactly it works
2. How it's different from existing remote work tooling (Slack / Zoom / Google docs / Miro / etc)
The goal is to give teams a flexible workplace consisting of a series of rooms purpose-built for their workflows.
I have no interest in my coworkers knowing I am listening to inappropriate music. I definitely don't want them freely glancing at my screen without permission.
Animated avatars don't seem to be taking off in the workplace. Hell even outside the workplace my friend group usually wants to see real faces.
Pricing is coming soon and will free tier + paid tier (think like Slack / Zoom pricing).
Surprised to see Japanese and a Producthunt Leaderboard.
ProductHunt leaderboard was a weekend project for me... I won't lie, there's not much connection, just some fun.
Works well but there is no message history search, it is worth using since it's free
