Happy Star Wars Day, to all who observe.
In today’s newsletter: Five new tools to improve the vibes at work, even if “work” is a fictional place you access from a portal in your home; how to make your rambling voice recordings sound as smart as Shakespeare; and an app that lets you FaceTime your favorite users while they’re using your product.
For distributed teams, sustaining employee engagement can be like building a VR game.
You’ve got to create the immersive experience of being part of something great, without any tangible evidence it exists.
Launching today: Five new tools for improving remote, hybrid, or old-school, in-person team wellbeing, connection, and productivity.
🏆 Juno for Startups provides an AI-powered marketplace for personalized wellbeing benefits for teams. Features include expenses, culture reports, and rewards, where teams use “Juno Points” for online purchases, or to recognize others in their team.
⚙️ DevDynamics is an analytics solution for engineering teams that enables leads to connect tools like Jira, GitHub, or Pagerduty to get auto-generated reports on performance and well-being. Its AI chat feature allows users to ask questions in natural language, for example: “Give me the list of deployments from last week.”
🧑💼 The Anywell Workplace Experience Platform helps facilitate and track the success of hybrid working arrangements with a dashboard that tracks office utilization, costs, and overall employee workplace experience. The platform also supports workplace allocation and booking.
🌏 The Modern Work Method is the result of 5,000+ interviews with the business leaders of top-performing remote teams. The playbook investigates how to implement structured, async-first approaches in distributed organizations as “a much-needed antidote to the office-first approaches plaguing so many teams today.”
🐰 eduHund offers leaders and novice managers a digital mentor that takes an interactive approach to teach users new skills. Lessons include shifting your professional paradigms, and developing your own task-setting style.
WorkOS is a modern identity and user management platform that enables B2B SaaS companies to accelerate enterprise adoption. Free up to 1 million MAUs, WorkOS brings a modular approach to B2B Auth with enterprise-ready features like SSO, SCIM, and User Management.
The APIs are flexible and easy to use, designed to provide an effortless experience from your first user all the way through your largest enterprise customer.
Today, hundreds of high-growth scale-ups are already powered by WorkOS, including ones you probably know, like Vercel, Webflow, and Loom.
- TikTok Direct Publishing is now available in Social Champ.
- Badger helps agencies and freelancers report on SEO efforts.
- AudioPen turns voice recordings into structured text content and lets users ask it to write notes in the style of Paul Graham, JK Rowling, or Shakespeare.
- Knit API helps users integrate 25+ HR, chat, and recruitment systems in one place.
- XataForm is an open-source alternative for Typeform.
- Ripe lets makers video call their best users while they’re using their product/s.
- Formaloo Free is a no-code form, web app, and membership portal builder.