Chris Messina

RealtimeBoard 2.0 (Miro since 2019) - Web-based whiteboarding & team collaboration tool

UPD' 2019: RealtimeBoard is now called Miro.

RealtimeBoard is an online whiteboard for remote product teams. Over 2M users use us to review and plan sprints together, map complex flowcharts, create and discuss prototypes and present research results.

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Andrey Khusid
Chris, thanks for hunting us! It’s a huge pleasure to have a chance to talk to experts and tech-enthusiasts from the Product Hunt community. Hey, Product Hunters! This idea stole our hearts and minds about four years ago and we’ve been building and improving it ever since. Today we’re thrilled to meet you guys and present RealtimeBoard 2.0. RealtimeBoard is a platform designed to make remote visual collaboration simple and straightforward for everyone. Small teams and companies worldwide use it for interface development, user flow mapping, storytelling, brainstorming as well as other unique and curious use cases. We spent many hours making the interface as intuitive as possible. Our boards are equipped with hand-crafted templates, colorful post-it notes, essential whiteboarding tools and a growing list of integrations. Every board is saved and synced in real-time, so you can have colleagues join a session from multiple locations for some live action, or contribute whenever they feel like it. Take a tour on the website, give it a try and let us know what you think! We’re here to answer any questions and talk about the product.
Chris Messina
I hunted 1.0 a year ago and wow, what a difference a year makes. There was a lot of criticism back then about the UX and reliance on Flash... happily the team has moved away to standard web technologies are excited to launch 2.0 with a solid discount for Product Hunters!
Cole Mercer
Looks great! I like the focus on boards and cards. One nitpick from me that I've seen pretty much everywhere lately: the explainer video has zero footage of the actual product. Maye I'm not the target audience, but when I come across products like this I think "okay it's another team collaboration tool, let's see how they do it better than XYZ" and want to see it in action. Instead, the video (like most) just describes the problem in macro terms with cartoons and then implies that this product solves it - but doesn't tell me how exactly it's different than the other 5000 tools for this. I'd actually prefer to see the solution in action in high fidelity. A good example of an "in action" video that still retains a lot of creative and storytelling is one here by Squarespace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ti...
Andrey Khusid
@colemercer thanks for the great feedback, Cole! Really enjoyed the Squarespace video, totally get you about seeing the product in action. Here's one of our live action videos — not as fancy as the one you linked, but it does show the interface and features:
Our website got a complete makeover not long ago, so it might actually do a better job showcasing the product and explaining how we're different: https://realtimeboard.com/features/
Cole Mercer
@khusya @colemercer Thanks a lot :) I do think your website does a fantastic job of explaining it!
Taylor Hou
i still use RTB regularly from back in the flash days. After learning and depending on the hotkeys/shortcuts, I have continued to default back to wireframing and flowcharting with it cus I'm super fast and efficient. I don't know what it is about an unlimited white space but my mind doesn't seem to work vertically like a doc or even a spreadsheet forces it to. With RTB, I can "go off on a tantrum" where my mind wanders on a specific idea or direction and continue going. It's weird, but somehow it just makes sense to me. Regardless, I LOVE it and I'm a happy annual customer on several accounts while forcing the companies I work with to get on it or I quit. haha Props @khusya and team and I hope RTB continues on. It 100% deserves the top spot today.
Andrey Khusid
@taylorhou wow, thanks so much Taylor! Your support means a whole lot to us :)
Brad Nickel
A few quick first impression notes. When I think of the word whiteboard, I think of something a little less powerful than what you are providing. I think ofa simple drawing application shared space between two people, but not something that goes quite as far as this application. This may be hindering customer acquisition or it could just be me. In addition, the lack of a mobile responsive homepage may hinder your efforts as well. I realize after trying to login that the application is not suitable for phone, but as someone checking out the application for the first time I certainly would like to be able to read the features and marketing material on the website in my phone more easily than it is available now. In addition, I would preferred to be notified while I'm looking at the homepage that it's not going to work with my phone, rather than finding out after going through the registration process. On the other hand you at least have my contact info now and I'm a registered user, so take that for what it's worth. It looks very powerful and I will take a more in-depth look after I get home.
Andrey Khusid
@clickbrain thank you, Brad! RealtimeBoard is definitely much more that a whiteboarding tool, but we're really trying to keep it simple and avoid building an all-in-one Frankenstein. I think that so far we've been able to keep things rather intuitive and easy to grasp — well, at least that's what our users say :) Mobile responsive homepage is in the works, and native apps are on our roadmap for next year. RealtimeBoard already works in the browser on mobile tablets, if that's something you wanted to try.
James Qureshi
@khusya @clickbrain "A Smartboard. Finally in your browser". Adding smart or something similar could let new users know you're taking a more intelligent path.
Peter Tatischev
Awesome product! We used earlier versions a whille ago for live collaboration and despite a few glitches it worked just great. Really impressive collaboration for the whole team. Will need to give the updated version a spin with my new team.
Alexandru Constantin
Used it for an online workshop once. Been using it for all workshops / brainstorming sessions ever since.
Anca Sandu
@alexandru_constantin4 Love Miro! Thanks for introducing Miro to the team. Been using it ever since for product development roadmap, team workshops and daily tasks ❤️
Masha Grin
I’m using RTB for remote collaboration with my product and marketing team. Realtimeboard helps us to collect, discuss and prototype new ideas. I was really excited when the team released the new UI and got rid of Flash. The tool is much faster now and looks awesome, not to mention it is working on ipad now:) Thank you, guys!
Andrey Khusid
@mashagrin thanks, Masha! There is a lot more in the pipe ;)
Anna Boyarkina
@mashagrin Thank you very much for your support, we appreciate it! There are other team workflow improvements already in the pipeline (new comments, mentions etc.). Stay tuned!
Daniele Catalanotto
Realtime board is a great tool. I specially like to possibility to work together with our other office in Geneva when we are in Bern. We have the same space to generate ideas and vote for them with dotmocracy. Great work @khusya :)
Elliot Isles
Cant wait use this! Excellent job guy
Anna Boyarkina
@elliotisles Hi Elliot! Thanks for your kind words! Hope you'll find it useful for your team!
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