Commons
Private Discord for your team to collaborate
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Kevin William David

Commons - Private Discord for your team to collaborate

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Commons is a voice-first communication platform that recreates an office-like environment. It’s super easy to use: Login with Slack. Tap to talk. See the team on 1 screen. Record, transcribe, and assign action items.

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Manlio Lo Conte
Connection and quick interactions is a huge problem for teams as we go more and more remote. Really excited to see Commons take a swing at this!
Patrick Burns
Maker
@mloco Thank you! It was sooooo helpful to get your early feedback on our previous versions! 🙏🙏
Evan Madow
Love Commons. Great work team! Looking forward to more updates to come
Patrick Burns
Maker
@emadow 🥁 Stay tuned, tons of new features coming soon!
Said Yanik
Wow! this app is soo cool it makes me find a job
Patrick Burns
Maker
@saidyanik haha great to hear! Can you share more? Don't think we've heard that one before 😂
Dan Grossman
Congratulations on creating and launching a useful and much needed product to ease the burden of remote collaboration!
Patrick Burns
Maker
@dgro3 Means a TON coming from you!
Joe Blau
My co-founder and I have been testing commons for a few weeks and it's been awesome. It gives us a really nice way to drop into rooms and have a great place talk about a project or work together on notes.
Patrick Burns
Maker
@joeblau heck yea! We think it's so powerful to be able to do 'drop into rooms' as you say, and get some of the serendipity back in the work environment 🎼
Ruben Wolff
Interesting and practicle product. Why pairing with Slack instead of any other platform though? (simple curiosity)
Patrick Burns
Maker
@rubenwolff Great Q! Lots of teams use Slack throughout the day, so we wanted to make it as seamless as possible to use Commons alongside Slack--especially given the quantity of tools that we all use these days. That said, we will have lots of integrations with other products. Any in particular that you'd like?
Ruben Wolff
@pattyjburns Thanks for the reply! My team and I use Discord, we like the concept of channels people can join to speak openly, but it doesn't provide as many possibilities as Commons seems to do
Patrick Burns
Maker
@rubenwolff totally. We love Discord but we believe this use case requires a purpose built product for work. A good example of how this manifests in the UX is the walkie-talkie style mic - we made this decision very intentionally. While Discord has hot keys, it's harder for them to prioritize b/c the keyboard is used for gaming.
Daphnée Laforest
Looking forward to see Commons grow! Good job guys!
Patrick Burns
Maker
@daphnee_laforest Thank you!! Your insight over the months has been sooo helpful 🙏
Natalie Karakina
Nice re-open of Clubhouse format!
Patrick Burns
Maker
@nataliekarakina Haha, there are actually few similarities with Clubhouse the product, but the key ones have an impact: live audio as a default format and rooms you can drop in + out of. Clubhouse helped to validate that live audio could be as natural as live video.
Margarette Jung
@pattyjburns and team, what kind of feedback/requests did you get from users that inspired Commons?
Patrick Burns
Maker
@margarettejung Great Q. When doing research, we kept hearing from people that every time they needed to interact with teammates on more complex topics or questions, the default is to schedule a meeting. But that means more meetings -- and often a quick chat is all you need. This is exactly how it works in the real world. This was a major insight that led us here!
Jen Aprahamian
I’ve been missing casual conversations with my peers — this is such a great idea!
Patrick Burns
Maker
@jennifermarie thank you! Yes, we believe that "small talk is big talk" in the workplace. Culture development, like friendship development, requires lots of spontaneous interactions over a long period of time. These conversations also help drive creativity.
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