Teams with benefits

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.

• 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.