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Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at Zendesk for Startups.
It wasn't that long ago that Zendesk was a startup. The company got its start in 2007 in a Copenhagen loft, armed with a mission to build software that would help other companies build a great customer experience through a simple set of support tools.
Now worth more than $9 billion the company's early years forged an identity that remains key to its culture today: Zendesk is still very much a startup at heart and wants to thank this community. With customers ranging from Uber and Airbnb to Calm and Limebike, Zendesk has helped hyper-growth companies start-up and scale their customer support.
The challenge:
It can be challenging for startups to build a customer support function from the ground up, especially because time and resources are limited for young companies.
The solution:
6 free months of Zendesk products 🙌🏻
Included in this package is access to Sell. Sell launched on Product Hunt 2 years ago marking its first step in Zendesk's plan to introduce technology for sales among its suite of products. Along with Zendesk's more widely known customer support tools, this package includes:
• Exclusive access to a community of founders and partners
• Curated customer experience resources, office hours with Zendesk experts and events
• Try any number of Zendesk solutions to trial with 0 risk
Note: You must be a new customer, have fewer than 50 employees, and have raised venture funding up to Series A
Zendesk products include Support, Guide, Chat and Talk options. While customer preferences are constantly changing — and consumers expect to be able to interact with brands across many channels — this suite of products gives startups what they need to grow an omnichannel customer experience at-scale.
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at Zendesk for Startups.
It wasn't that long ago that Zendesk was a startup. The company got its start in 2007 in a Copenhagen loft, armed with a mission to build software that would help other companies build a great customer experience through a simple set of support tools.
Now worth more than $9 billion the company's early years forged an identity that remains key to its culture today: Zendesk is still very much a startup at heart and wants to thank this community. With customers ranging from Uber and Airbnb to Calm and Limebike, Zendesk has helped hyper-growth companies start-up and scale their customer support.
The challenge:
It can be challenging for startups to build a customer support function from the ground up, especially because time and resources are limited for young companies.
The solution:
6 free months of Zendesk products 🙌🏻
Included in this package is access to Sell. Sell launched on Product Hunt 2 years ago marking its first step in Zendesk's plan to introduce technology for sales among its suite of products. Along with Zendesk's more widely known customer support tools, this package includes:
• Exclusive access to a community of founders and partners
• Curated customer experience resources, office hours with Zendesk experts and events
• Try any number of Zendesk solutions to trial with 0 risk
Note: You must be a new customer, have fewer than 50 employees, and have raised venture funding up to Series A
Zendesk products include Support, Guide, Chat and Talk options. While customer preferences are constantly changing — and consumers expect to be able to interact with brands across many channels — this suite of products gives startups what they need to grow an omnichannel customer experience at-scale.
How to monetize your Zoom videos
According to Cisco annual report, video is expected to make up 82% of internet traffic by 2021.
Combine these numbers with more people at home due to shelter in place and you have a pretty big market for video-based businesses.
Today, Y Combinator-backed entrepreneurs Luca Sanini and Akarsh Sanghi launched Reach.Live, a video monetization platform for creators.
Reach.Live targets creators and solopreneurs running lifestyle businesses. The platform is great for hosting free and paid live events. You can get a custom domain, engage with your community, and even sell stuff.
The global pandemic hit travel, education, finance, fitness, healthcare, entertainment, food, and virtually every other industry imaginable. People had to pivot quickly.
Increased constraints and necessity forced makers to create solutions to replace the “old” economy migrating most of the real-life activities online.
We’re seeing many more platforms emerge that help creators monetize video and innovate the aforementioned industries.
Here are some of the products that launched during the pandemic:
Stream makes it easy for anyone to start a live media business with 1-click Zoom live streams and integrated Stripe payments.
ZmURL is a personalized Zoom event website builder with event analytics and paid ticketing.
Together.LIVE is the one-stop-shop for managing and monetizing live online classes.
Hologram makes promoting and selling tickets to your Zoom classes easier.
Sutra Fitness can be used to host your live and on-demand classes, sell class packs, and subscriptions.
Krew provides a platform for PTs, physiotherapists, and nutritionists to offer all of their services online.
LiveKlass is an on-demand virtual classroom platform for creating, scheduling, and monetizing classes.
Twine is a platform that allows in-person content creators to manage their live streams with their students.
Combine these numbers with more people at home due to shelter in place and you have a pretty big market for video-based businesses.
Today, Y Combinator-backed entrepreneurs Luca Sanini and Akarsh Sanghi launched Reach.Live, a video monetization platform for creators.
Reach.Live targets creators and solopreneurs running lifestyle businesses. The platform is great for hosting free and paid live events. You can get a custom domain, engage with your community, and even sell stuff.
The global pandemic hit travel, education, finance, fitness, healthcare, entertainment, food, and virtually every other industry imaginable. People had to pivot quickly.
Increased constraints and necessity forced makers to create solutions to replace the “old” economy migrating most of the real-life activities online.
We’re seeing many more platforms emerge that help creators monetize video and innovate the aforementioned industries.
Here are some of the products that launched during the pandemic:
Stream makes it easy for anyone to start a live media business with 1-click Zoom live streams and integrated Stripe payments.
ZmURL is a personalized Zoom event website builder with event analytics and paid ticketing.
Together.LIVE is the one-stop-shop for managing and monetizing live online classes.
Hologram makes promoting and selling tickets to your Zoom classes easier.
Sutra Fitness can be used to host your live and on-demand classes, sell class packs, and subscriptions.
Krew provides a platform for PTs, physiotherapists, and nutritionists to offer all of their services online.
LiveKlass is an on-demand virtual classroom platform for creating, scheduling, and monetizing classes.
Twine is a platform that allows in-person content creators to manage their live streams with their students.
Creating virtual side-chats
Talking to friends online is not the same as face to face. But technology is getting us pretty close.
Recently, UC Berkeley students, Anmol Parande and Shomil Jain launched Voiceroom, a spatially-aware voice chat web-app.
This browser-based voice chat emulates the way you talk with your friends IRL. When you move around the room, the app modifies how you hear other participants, bringing you the effect of proximity. You can maintain side-chats, without being the focal point of the whole group.
Voiceroom currently supports all major browsers (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox) and rooms up to 15 people. You can try the demo to see it in action.
The spatially aware audio space is gaining in traction in recent times.
In May, we talked in more detail about the launch of Spatial, a collaborative work space that turns any room into an infinite AR/VR workplace creating an experience of working together as if you were face to face.
Whether for work or for more information social interactions, we've seen interesting innovations in recent months to improve open collaboration and create communication tools as close to real-life interactions as possible.
Here are a few more to check out:
SpatialChat brings the cocktail party effect online and promises no more boring team happy hours and lame birthday parties on Zoom.
CozyRoom can be used to create spatial audio environments to talk and spend time with friends.
High Fidelity is an online 3D audio space creator that mimics real-life gatherings.
Breakroom is a 3D social hub for remote teams, classes, and virtual events.
Recently, UC Berkeley students, Anmol Parande and Shomil Jain launched Voiceroom, a spatially-aware voice chat web-app.
This browser-based voice chat emulates the way you talk with your friends IRL. When you move around the room, the app modifies how you hear other participants, bringing you the effect of proximity. You can maintain side-chats, without being the focal point of the whole group.
Voiceroom currently supports all major browsers (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox) and rooms up to 15 people. You can try the demo to see it in action.
The spatially aware audio space is gaining in traction in recent times.
In May, we talked in more detail about the launch of Spatial, a collaborative work space that turns any room into an infinite AR/VR workplace creating an experience of working together as if you were face to face.
Whether for work or for more information social interactions, we've seen interesting innovations in recent months to improve open collaboration and create communication tools as close to real-life interactions as possible.
Here are a few more to check out:
SpatialChat brings the cocktail party effect online and promises no more boring team happy hours and lame birthday parties on Zoom.
CozyRoom can be used to create spatial audio environments to talk and spend time with friends.
High Fidelity is an online 3D audio space creator that mimics real-life gatherings.
Breakroom is a 3D social hub for remote teams, classes, and virtual events.
Microsoft resurrects Flight Simulator
14 years since it’s original launch, Flight Simulator returns in real-time 4K, and we can’t be more excited.
“Wow, 😲 Are they real photos? It's hard to see the difference from the real world.” - Vignesh
“So dope. Might be worth building a gaming rig just for this game.” - Joshua
“I was already waiting for this 🔥” - Daniel
Microsoft added a new graphics engine and satellite data from Bing Maps. Now you can travel the world in amazing detail with over 37,000 airports, 2 million cities, 1.5 billion buildings, real mountains, roads, trees, rivers, animals, traffic, and more.
It doesn’t come cheap (starts at $59.99 for the standard version) but cheaper than any ticket you can get right now. However, if you’re a new Xbox Game Pass subscriber, you can try it out for $1/month.
With the current movement restrictions, the wanderlust is stronger than ever.
Luckily, there are some fun ways to see the world (safely) including domestic travel, road trips, virtual tours, and simulated travel.
Here are some cool products in the travel space:
Trift is a creator-powered tour guide with virtual experiences and travel stories in your pocket.
PhotoHound is a web app to find and share the best photo spots around the world.
City Guesser drops you in a random location to have users guess where they are at.
HearHere is a travel audio app designed to make your next road trip more interesting.
TripsGuard provides travelers (who must travel), with updated COVID-19 travel restrictions.
And later this week we’re dropping a new, unreleased app from a travel startup you’d recognize. Text (415) 481-3148 to subscribe to Product Hunt Early (limited to US and Canada right now).
“Wow, 😲 Are they real photos? It's hard to see the difference from the real world.” - Vignesh
“So dope. Might be worth building a gaming rig just for this game.” - Joshua
“I was already waiting for this 🔥” - Daniel
Microsoft added a new graphics engine and satellite data from Bing Maps. Now you can travel the world in amazing detail with over 37,000 airports, 2 million cities, 1.5 billion buildings, real mountains, roads, trees, rivers, animals, traffic, and more.
It doesn’t come cheap (starts at $59.99 for the standard version) but cheaper than any ticket you can get right now. However, if you’re a new Xbox Game Pass subscriber, you can try it out for $1/month.
With the current movement restrictions, the wanderlust is stronger than ever.
Luckily, there are some fun ways to see the world (safely) including domestic travel, road trips, virtual tours, and simulated travel.
Here are some cool products in the travel space:
Trift is a creator-powered tour guide with virtual experiences and travel stories in your pocket.
PhotoHound is a web app to find and share the best photo spots around the world.
City Guesser drops you in a random location to have users guess where they are at.
HearHere is a travel audio app designed to make your next road trip more interesting.
TripsGuard provides travelers (who must travel), with updated COVID-19 travel restrictions.
And later this week we’re dropping a new, unreleased app from a travel startup you’d recognize. Text (415) 481-3148 to subscribe to Product Hunt Early (limited to US and Canada right now).
A new Duolingo competitor?
Why is learning a new language so hard?
There are many roadblocks. Finding time to practice, boring learning material, repetitiveness, finding someone to practice with, and more.
It’s active intellectual labor and many of us already have lots of things to do.
While there’s no universal solution to language learning, there are interesting solutions that have emerged recently that may help you finally learn a new language.
Last week, Ara Ghougassian launched Fluent, a Chrome extension that automatically translates words on websites.
Here are some initial reactions from the Product Hunt community:
“Used fluent for the last few weeks. The experience so far has been flawless and totally fun.” – Artur Safaryan
“I've been using the Beta since May, and it's been great. I've already picked up new French vocab and I'm really liking the features around testing comprehension without being invasive on the screen.” – Stefan Palios
“Unlike other conventional language learning apps on the market, Fluent doesn't take any extra time out of your day, but instead integrates language learning into your regular web browsing time!” – Monisha Shcherbakova
Over the years we’ve seen dozens of tools to help you learn a language. Here are a few:
MondlyAR creates an immersive AR experience in the world to learn a new language.
Reji lets you save words from language classes, movies, books, and the Internet.
Cardina is an elegant bilingual dictionary with flashcards.
Mochi turns your language notes into flashcards to study them at optimal intervals.
Mate Translate for Netflix instantly translates subtitles so you can learn while you chill.
1000 Words helps you learn the most common 1000 words of popular languages.
Vocly lets you learn vocabulary in 50 languages with fun games, quizzes, and reviews.
Fluent Forever app is based on the neuroscience principles of learning.
Duolingo Bots react differently to thousands of possible answers using AI
There are many roadblocks. Finding time to practice, boring learning material, repetitiveness, finding someone to practice with, and more.
It’s active intellectual labor and many of us already have lots of things to do.
While there’s no universal solution to language learning, there are interesting solutions that have emerged recently that may help you finally learn a new language.
Last week, Ara Ghougassian launched Fluent, a Chrome extension that automatically translates words on websites.
Here are some initial reactions from the Product Hunt community:
“Used fluent for the last few weeks. The experience so far has been flawless and totally fun.” – Artur Safaryan
“I've been using the Beta since May, and it's been great. I've already picked up new French vocab and I'm really liking the features around testing comprehension without being invasive on the screen.” – Stefan Palios
“Unlike other conventional language learning apps on the market, Fluent doesn't take any extra time out of your day, but instead integrates language learning into your regular web browsing time!” – Monisha Shcherbakova
Over the years we’ve seen dozens of tools to help you learn a language. Here are a few:
MondlyAR creates an immersive AR experience in the world to learn a new language.
Reji lets you save words from language classes, movies, books, and the Internet.
Cardina is an elegant bilingual dictionary with flashcards.
Mochi turns your language notes into flashcards to study them at optimal intervals.
Mate Translate for Netflix instantly translates subtitles so you can learn while you chill.
1000 Words helps you learn the most common 1000 words of popular languages.
Vocly lets you learn vocabulary in 50 languages with fun games, quizzes, and reviews.
Fluent Forever app is based on the neuroscience principles of learning.
Duolingo Bots react differently to thousands of possible answers using AI
The $3.5B startup from India
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at Freshworks for Startups.
Freshworks launched 10 years ago as a 6 member team in a small office in Chennai, India. Today, the company is worth $3.5B, with 13 offices around the world. They’ve seen scale from both sides with customers of it’s cloud-based suite including Honda, Cisco, Unicef, Hugo Boss, Toshiba, plus over 40K other businesses around the world.
In solidarity with their startup roots, the team at Freshworks recently launched Freshworks for Startups as a way to give back to the startup community.
The Challenge
On any given day a founder might wear a dozen hats, taking on the role of business analyst, marketer, HR personnel, inventory clerk, warehouse manager, product manager, customer service agent, and many more.
With so many conflicting priorities competing for attention, it can be hard to ensure that customers receive the best service without detracting from an already strained budget and timetable.
The Solution
Freshworks is offering Product Hunt subscribers $10K worth of Freshworks credits with Freshworks for Startups. This offer includes all Freshworks product across Sales CRM, Helpdesk, Chat, Caller, Marketing Automation, and Agile Project Management (two scrums up). Plus, it all comes with premium onboarding and mentorship so your team can get all the training they need to put this software to work.
This exclusive offer is only valid Until August 30, 2020.
Freshworks launched 10 years ago as a 6 member team in a small office in Chennai, India. Today, the company is worth $3.5B, with 13 offices around the world. They’ve seen scale from both sides with customers of it’s cloud-based suite including Honda, Cisco, Unicef, Hugo Boss, Toshiba, plus over 40K other businesses around the world.
In solidarity with their startup roots, the team at Freshworks recently launched Freshworks for Startups as a way to give back to the startup community.
The Challenge
On any given day a founder might wear a dozen hats, taking on the role of business analyst, marketer, HR personnel, inventory clerk, warehouse manager, product manager, customer service agent, and many more.
With so many conflicting priorities competing for attention, it can be hard to ensure that customers receive the best service without detracting from an already strained budget and timetable.
The Solution
Freshworks is offering Product Hunt subscribers $10K worth of Freshworks credits with Freshworks for Startups. This offer includes all Freshworks product across Sales CRM, Helpdesk, Chat, Caller, Marketing Automation, and Agile Project Management (two scrums up). Plus, it all comes with premium onboarding and mentorship so your team can get all the training they need to put this software to work.
This exclusive offer is only valid Until August 30, 2020.
Twitter wants another chance
The relationship between Twitter and the developer community can be best described as complicated.
Yesterday, Twitter’s Global Lead Developer Advocate, Andy Piper announced a new Twitter API, built on a completely fresh foundation.
Twitter’s new API lets you publish and analyze Tweets, optimize ads, and create better customer experiences. From today, you can use features like access to topic annotations, filtered stream, recent search, and poll data.
This time, Twitter is not only targeting developers but also academics and businesses. The new API includes three access levels: basic (which is free), elevated, and custom.
Back in 2018, Twitter’s infamous move to restrict its API access affected some of the community’s beloved apps like Statusbrew, Crowdfire, Tweetbot, and Twitterrific.
With the launch, Twitter wants to earn your trust back and share its public roadmap and acknowledge the fact that they messed up.
“We know that it takes hard work to reach that level of excellence and that it starts and ends with listening to you, and acting upon your feedback.” Alyssa Reese, Senior Product Designer
The community responds with optimism and excitement.
“Interesting to see the API being expanded. Twitter has had a turbulent history with third-party developers and its API.” – Dwayne Charrington
Why is this good news for makers?
The API megatrend helps makers build better products on top of existing infrastructures, whether by picking a niche and serving it better or creating a new service.
With the recent launches of Apiway, Alchemy, Simple Scraper, Paragon, Magic, Let’s Enhance, Api Spreadsheets, and a lot more we’re seeing how these companies are democratizing access to APIs, appealing to even non-techy makers.
Integrations and interconnectedness between apps bring us more innovation, creating more opportunities for everyone.
Yesterday, Twitter’s Global Lead Developer Advocate, Andy Piper announced a new Twitter API, built on a completely fresh foundation.
Twitter’s new API lets you publish and analyze Tweets, optimize ads, and create better customer experiences. From today, you can use features like access to topic annotations, filtered stream, recent search, and poll data.
This time, Twitter is not only targeting developers but also academics and businesses. The new API includes three access levels: basic (which is free), elevated, and custom.
Back in 2018, Twitter’s infamous move to restrict its API access affected some of the community’s beloved apps like Statusbrew, Crowdfire, Tweetbot, and Twitterrific.
With the launch, Twitter wants to earn your trust back and share its public roadmap and acknowledge the fact that they messed up.
“We know that it takes hard work to reach that level of excellence and that it starts and ends with listening to you, and acting upon your feedback.” Alyssa Reese, Senior Product Designer
The community responds with optimism and excitement.
“Interesting to see the API being expanded. Twitter has had a turbulent history with third-party developers and its API.” – Dwayne Charrington
Why is this good news for makers?
The API megatrend helps makers build better products on top of existing infrastructures, whether by picking a niche and serving it better or creating a new service.
With the recent launches of Apiway, Alchemy, Simple Scraper, Paragon, Magic, Let’s Enhance, Api Spreadsheets, and a lot more we’re seeing how these companies are democratizing access to APIs, appealing to even non-techy makers.
Integrations and interconnectedness between apps bring us more innovation, creating more opportunities for everyone.
A smart camera for nose-pickers
We have reusable rockets while webcams still suck big time.
Yesterday, the NeuralCam team dropped NeuralCam Live, an AI-powered app that turns your iPhone into a smart webcam.
It’s simple to set up. Download the iOS app, install a Mac driver, and you’re good to go.
They built a machine learning engine to make you look better, even in your pajamas.
The Style framework edits video similarly to a professional colorist (think Instagram filters).
With the Enhance framework, well, you can enhance your video.
Finally, with the Recognition framework, you can automatically locate your face and remove everything around it. It can also detect and instantly blur facial touches (looking at you, nose pickers) and nudity (there are other apps for that).
Rapidly developing AI and ML tools will inevitably bring serious innovation to live photography and videography. NeuralCam Live is one of the examples among others (Camo, Around, and mmhmm).
The company is gaining momentum in the growing smart camera space. A year ago, they launched low-light and photo enhancing NeuralCam and NeuralCam Pro.
The growing number of smart camera apps and video tools (Loom, Zoom for Home, Facebook Portal, Remotion, and Krew) can make working from home a lot more interesting.
NeuralCam Live is free to download with and has a premium subscription with better features. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Sadly, it doesn’t support FaceTime or Safari browser.
Yesterday, the NeuralCam team dropped NeuralCam Live, an AI-powered app that turns your iPhone into a smart webcam.
It’s simple to set up. Download the iOS app, install a Mac driver, and you’re good to go.
They built a machine learning engine to make you look better, even in your pajamas.
The Style framework edits video similarly to a professional colorist (think Instagram filters).
With the Enhance framework, well, you can enhance your video.
Finally, with the Recognition framework, you can automatically locate your face and remove everything around it. It can also detect and instantly blur facial touches (looking at you, nose pickers) and nudity (there are other apps for that).
Rapidly developing AI and ML tools will inevitably bring serious innovation to live photography and videography. NeuralCam Live is one of the examples among others (Camo, Around, and mmhmm).
The company is gaining momentum in the growing smart camera space. A year ago, they launched low-light and photo enhancing NeuralCam and NeuralCam Pro.
The growing number of smart camera apps and video tools (Loom, Zoom for Home, Facebook Portal, Remotion, and Krew) can make working from home a lot more interesting.
NeuralCam Live is free to download with and has a premium subscription with better features. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Sadly, it doesn’t support FaceTime or Safari browser.
Tweetdeck for Reddit
Reddit just got its own Tweetdeck-style desktop reader.
Yesterday, Charles Yang launched Deck for Reddit, an alternative and fun way to browse your favorite subreddits.
Clark Chambers’ comment sums it up pretty well, “Making Reddit actually usable?? You are going to kill my productivity ; )”
Reddit is a captivating company, ranked the 19th-most-visited website in the world, one of the largest online communities for virtually anything you can imagine (one of our favorites: /r/InternetIsBeautiful).
Needless to say, this is not the first time someone tried to clean up Reddit's messy interface.
The holy grail of human wisdom, aka “the front page of the Internet,” has inspired many businesses and products loved by the Product Hunt community.
There are too many to mention all but here are some of the most impressive ones: The Unim.press, Unreadit, Walnut, Reddit Shell, Reddit List, Top Fitty Memes, Readder, Thredd, Glance, Nano for Reddit (so you read Reddit on your Apple Watch), and more.
It’s worth mentioning that the current Reddit mobile app was highly inspired by Alien Blue, the popular app the company acquired in 2014 and discontinued earlier this year.
Whether you’re frustrated with Reddit web UX and want a much better way for quick browsing or simply upgrade your procrastination toolkit, Deck for Reddit will do.
Yesterday, Charles Yang launched Deck for Reddit, an alternative and fun way to browse your favorite subreddits.
Clark Chambers’ comment sums it up pretty well, “Making Reddit actually usable?? You are going to kill my productivity ; )”
Reddit is a captivating company, ranked the 19th-most-visited website in the world, one of the largest online communities for virtually anything you can imagine (one of our favorites: /r/InternetIsBeautiful).
Needless to say, this is not the first time someone tried to clean up Reddit's messy interface.
The holy grail of human wisdom, aka “the front page of the Internet,” has inspired many businesses and products loved by the Product Hunt community.
There are too many to mention all but here are some of the most impressive ones: The Unim.press, Unreadit, Walnut, Reddit Shell, Reddit List, Top Fitty Memes, Readder, Thredd, Glance, Nano for Reddit (so you read Reddit on your Apple Watch), and more.
It’s worth mentioning that the current Reddit mobile app was highly inspired by Alien Blue, the popular app the company acquired in 2014 and discontinued earlier this year.
Whether you’re frustrated with Reddit web UX and want a much better way for quick browsing or simply upgrade your procrastination toolkit, Deck for Reddit will do.
NEW from WordPress: A tool for remote workers
Automattic, WordPress’s parent company, is a pioneer in remote working since the company started in 2005. Today they have over 1,000 employees (!!!), fully distributed around the world.
Last week the team at WordPress.com launched their internal remote-team collaboration tool, P2, to the public for the first time.
Email, Slack, and Zoom fatigue is real. P2 helps organize files, projects, and conversations all on one screen, meaning teams can collaborate from anywhere, asynchronously. Maker, Jon Burke, refers to P2 as the “life blood” of their globally distributed team.
Here are some initial reactions from the community:
“‘I love work emails’ - said no one ever. P2 all the way!” – Monica V. Ohara
“What I love about P2s is that it gives time and space to think about important topics. I cannot imagine asynchronous work without a tool like this.” – Artur Piszek
“Big upgrade. Communication is going this way. Nice product 👏” – Alex Papageorge
Famously a distributed team, this launch from Automattic (the creators behind WordPress) could be a step forward in realizing Founder’s, Matt Mullenweg, long-held prediction that remote work is the future.
5 years ago Matt talked to the Product Hunt community about his thoughts on this. And more recently he wrote that “Distributed work happened slowly, then all at once” in reference to recent Shelter In Place needs.
You can use P2 across multiple timezones for things like writing company-wide blog posts or acting as a 'virtual water cooler' to help teammates connect around the world. You could even plan a trip with friends and family using P2 - it's not necessarily only useful for our work needs.
Of course, many tools are emerging to help teams navigate remote working. We wrote about a few lesser-known alternatives back in March.
Whether you enjoy the remote life, or are looking forward to getting back to the office, P2 could help reduce reliance on multiple tools either remotely, in the office, or even for family life.
Last week the team at WordPress.com launched their internal remote-team collaboration tool, P2, to the public for the first time.
Email, Slack, and Zoom fatigue is real. P2 helps organize files, projects, and conversations all on one screen, meaning teams can collaborate from anywhere, asynchronously. Maker, Jon Burke, refers to P2 as the “life blood” of their globally distributed team.
Here are some initial reactions from the community:
“‘I love work emails’ - said no one ever. P2 all the way!” – Monica V. Ohara
“What I love about P2s is that it gives time and space to think about important topics. I cannot imagine asynchronous work without a tool like this.” – Artur Piszek
“Big upgrade. Communication is going this way. Nice product 👏” – Alex Papageorge
Famously a distributed team, this launch from Automattic (the creators behind WordPress) could be a step forward in realizing Founder’s, Matt Mullenweg, long-held prediction that remote work is the future.
5 years ago Matt talked to the Product Hunt community about his thoughts on this. And more recently he wrote that “Distributed work happened slowly, then all at once” in reference to recent Shelter In Place needs.
You can use P2 across multiple timezones for things like writing company-wide blog posts or acting as a 'virtual water cooler' to help teammates connect around the world. You could even plan a trip with friends and family using P2 - it's not necessarily only useful for our work needs.
Of course, many tools are emerging to help teams navigate remote working. We wrote about a few lesser-known alternatives back in March.
Whether you enjoy the remote life, or are looking forward to getting back to the office, P2 could help reduce reliance on multiple tools either remotely, in the office, or even for family life.
