Noor - Drop-in audio & video chat for teams 🚀

Hey PH friends! 👋 I'm so excited to back after 2 years! We were heads down building for the whole period. It was first a team time zone app, but now it's SO MUCH BETTER. Here's why... How it started Since we made There timezone app for remote workers, we noticed a much bigger challenge. I've worked remotely for global teams, but in our own team, we sometimes worked in our office, and most of the time from home. This resulted in realizing **how much we lose when we switch from the office**. 🤔 When you feel the mid-work office chats rapid collaboration, you can't go back to just Slack. Going Slack-only made it: • Hard to help teammates with code. • All the impromptu chats were lost • Many conversations didn't happen just because we had a limited communication method • ... and Zoom was just not it. 🚀 So we started building Noor for ourselves 😇 🎙 One click to talk Once we had voice chat built, we opened used it instead of many Slack chats. It just felt a LOT nicer to talk😍, like we're used to doing in the office. 🖥 Instant collaboration What if we could recreate walking up to a teammate's desk? A faster, collaborative screen-share that you switch to? We made a prototype, and shouted: "THIS WAS IT". It felt so good, we even use it when we're 3 feet apart. 👩‍💻 Every detail matters From how you join lobby rooms, sound design, keyboard shortcuts, animations, and the fully new notification we've designed. All to make an incredible experience. ------- You might ask... 1. Did you build it for the Covid? Will it disappear? Actually we started in late 2019, and since we're using it every single day, it won't disappear, nor get sold. 2. Isn't this against async work? In fact, it compliments it. Rapid collaboration and bouncing ideas back & forth are required for incredible creations. 3. What's the average age of your team? 23.3 years old. 4. How is it different from Zoom, or recent apps like Tandem and Around? When we started, these recent apps weren't even released! I've written in detail in https://usenoor.com/faq on how our approach is radically different (and better, because we re-thought how chats should work from the ground-up) ----- I want to especially thank my cofounder @brajabi and teammate @MoeinDana that have worked on Noor for more than a year tirelessly. ❤️ Also, thanks to people who've helped us in someway along the way, Phil Pluckthun, Sara Vieira, Daniel Zarick, Julian Targowsky, Daniel Gross, Jackson, Andreas, Guillermo, and many more. Thanks to Chris for hunting Noor.

?makers Congratulations on the launch! I like how you have positioned it (not entirely a Zoom substitute) but would love to know more about the use-cases you have in mind. Collaborative environments for coding, brainstorming on Notion etc... these come to my mind. Also, what's the story behind the name 'Noor'?

We can't work without our app. We made this because we needed this badly...

The noor is excellent, I'm waiting for the Windows version

Looks promising. I like the concept of the app.

Hope to see Windows and mobile-base versions soon

When is Ubuntu and Window version is coming?

Congrats Mo & team! This looks amazing and I'm excited to put this into use soon! Also looking forward to the Linux client ;)

Quite promising and useful especially now when most of the meetings are going digital.

Congrats on the launch! Very happy to hear, that it won't disappear or be sold. It really matters these days. :) Also thanks a lot for providing tools for the remote experience, this movement really needs all the support it can get now.

Looks neat!

Looks great! Congrats on the launch🔥

It is very practical.

It does look nice and with great attention to detail in terms of UX. Congrats!

Simple and easy.

Really nice and handy

Love the sound of this!

Good luck with the launch!

Looks promising! I love it

Love the idea!