Range Meetings - Remote meetings that don't suck

Hi Product Hunt and thank you @chudson for the support today (as well as over the last few years!) I'm Dan, one of the Range founders. I'm a self-professed meeting nerd and in past roles have considered meetings a core competency for my teams. With this launch we’re bringing you tools to help you facilitate more efficient, engaging, and inclusive meetings — so you don’t have to become a meeting nerd like me. If you’re familiar with Range, this might seem a strange feature announcement — aren’t we all about async check-ins? Yes... but let’s be real, “in-person” synchronous time is often necessary, and if the past year of working remotely through a pandemic has shown us anything, it’s also super important if you want to keep feeling like a team. Investing in async comms, doesn’t mean meetings aren’t important. Moving things async as much as possible creates more equitable access to information, while allowing you to focus in-person time on the things that really matter. Furthermore, meetings don’t have to be painful. They should be efficient moments of collaboration and coordination, not a tax and a chore. Enriching meetings with information from outside the meeting can make extra space for deep and meaningful discussion, and provides a foundation that can help you feel more connected to the people you work with. With this launch we want to help everyone run better meetings. We want to help you find the right balance between async and real-time communication. Here are some of my favorite parts of this release: 👋 Icebreakers - start every meeting on the right foot with hundreds of icebreaker questions. Use our attendee spinner to randomly go around the “room”. ⏰ Topic timer - keeping the meeting on track doesn’t have to be one person’s job - with a visual timer, everyone can see when you’re up on time for a topic. 🚩 Flag review - mark items from your async Check-ins for review in a meeting. This makes it easy for everyone to bring topics to the table and ensures you cover the important stuff first. 📝 Notes & action items - if you have a meeting and don’t take any notes or action, did it even happen?? Range makes it easy to capture notes and action for each topic and sends them to all attendees after the meeting. 🖥 Meets you where you are - use your existing video chat software. Either cast to the call or follow along in real-time. Works great with Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. 👥 Sharable meeting agendas - if you’re struggling to figure out the best way to run a meeting, start with a template from our library or copy one from another team at your company. Run your next meeting with Range, and let us know what you think!

We've been using this for our stand-ups for the past month or so and it's great. It doesn't radically change our meetings, but it helps with all the little things that make a meeting more powerful that are easy to miss when things get busy. It does feel a bit awkward at first (I'd never used a tool like this one before), but once it clicked, it makes running a meeting so much easier.

Excellent team and excellent tool to manage your meetings and your time better. It's a great tool to provide better structure and best practices to something distributed and hard to change in your culture.

The products from Range have been so high quality and thoughtful. Looking forward to using this in our next meeting!

We use range everyday for our Product team and it is a high value add, it is great!

Meetings are an essential part of teamwork, but all too often feel boring and a waste of time. The Range team has put a lot of thought into how to balance async and sync communication, and with their updated meeting tool you can now have meetings that are both engaging and productive.

Range makes a ton of sense for fast-moving teams. Even more powerful in a hybrid/distributed organization.

I love Range: their thoughtfulness and care comes through in everything they do. I'm excited to start using this in my meetings today.

I'm a new design on the team, and I had the rare opportunity to experience my first meetings with Range and then immediately begin designing some of these new features. I’ve really enjoyed using the tool, and hope you’ll find as much value in it as I have.

I can't imagine a better time than now for this product. Sounds like you are addressing a problem I've had my entire career, only to have gotten worse with the changes to how we work since COVID. Topic Time, Flag for Review, and Action Items are exactly what I want!