Switchboard - Work side-by-side, even when you’re not in the same room

This looks and sounds awesome. Do local based apps work as well? I am thinking things like Obsidian.

This looks genius! A real game-changing idea.

Those recurring meetings around the same docs and with the same people are never going to be the same again 🔥🔥🔥

So excited about this! Absolutely astonishing team building a product that is much needed! 🎉 Cannot wait to watch this take flight! Congrats!!

Love this product! Been testing it with @vboughner and some other former coworkers, and it's been a blast! I love how customizable the rooms are, so it feels much warmer and personable than meeting through Teams or Zoom. But it's also got so many plug-ins and features for productivity. I personally love the post-it notes!

👋🏼 Hi everyone and thanks so much for your support! While doing research early last year, we spoke to dozens of PMs, project managers, designers, and engineers to hear about their experiences working remotely during the first year of the pandemic. Though most agreed that videoconferencing solutions like Zoom and Google Meet saved the day as we suddenly found ourselves working from home, I wanted to more deeply understand where these tools fell short and what problems we could help address with Switchboard. The feelings were overwhelmingly consistent: 🌎 We gained so much flexibility in being able to work from anywhere, but we lost the ability to have spontaneous conversations with our teammates 📉 It’s just hard to get things done together. Working on a project means spending time across a number of different web applications at the same time and trying to juggle them on a video call feels like... juggling. 😵‍💫 It’s exhausting to stare at faces all day 🚨 Sharing your screen is stressful. We're worried about notifications popping up, accidental oversharing, and privacy overall. 🌪 We always have (what seems like) hundreds of browser tabs open with important documents and web-apps waiting to be shared — it's a mess and it slows down our computers. Our mission is to help teams overcome these issues and make teamwork the best part of work. And since we’re a fully remote company, we live on the Switchboard platform everyday and we each feel the relief we’re hoping others experience while using it. We want to build the best tools for remote work, and define through our experiences, a set of exemplary practices for building remote companies that will will enable the next generation of startups and innovations. I’d love to hear what you think about Switchboard and how we can make it even better!

I have been so excited to try this out. Congrats on the release!

this is sick af....congrats on the launch

Amir and team, congratulations! Nice launch! A quick question, have you thought about how a hardware team can collaborate remotely? Imaging two engineers (1 hardware, 1 firmware) need to sit together playing the oscilloscope to get right wire frequencies. I ask because we are a hardware team, I'm looking for ways to be fully remote (at least hybrid).

It's a great product @chrismessina thatnks for hunting👍