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Nishith from True Sparrow

Thursday - Where remote teams do their socials, no sign up required

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Thursday is where remote teams do their socials. It is a place to hang out with your team and play games in small groups.

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Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
Hello hunters, 👋 Nishith here. I’m the maker of Thursday, a place where remote teams do their socials. We have taken all the friction out from organizing socials. Start your social with just 1-click. 🔥 No signup. 🔥 Nothing to install. 🔥 Free to use. 🔥 It is wonderful to see that what had started as a side project at Folly Systems 3 months ago for our own team’s chill time has now turned into an actual product with hundreds of users doing socials, hanging out with their teams, playing games, and having a blast. Please try it out with your team. I'll be looking forward to your feedback. Btw, something that we have always been curious about other product launches on PH is what kind of traffic they would be getting on their launch day. So we built this public PH launch tracker to share our launch data with you: https://thursday.social/ph-launc... #buildinpublic 👀 It shows our data in near real-time, like # of unique visitors, where they are coming from, how many socials they are creating, etc. I hope you find it interesting. P.S. I’ll be here all day and will be happy to answer any questions.
Deepa from True Sparrow
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! 👋 Deepa here! I am the founder and maker of Thursday. We are very excited to share our journey and our product with you. Earlier this summer, we talked to various remote teams about their WFH experiences, and this is what we learned: - Remote is great, but people don’t feel connected. All conversations have become transactional. No watercooler chats, no chitchat over lunch, no happy hours. - Zoom fatigue is real. - It is a huge burden on a select few in the team to organize the social events. These were a few insights that led us to Thursday. So happy to share with you today what we built over the last 3 months. Give Thursday a spin. Get together with your team, and let us know what you think.
Harshit Beniwal
Maker
Hello Product Hunt, I’m the designer and maker of Thursday, with the future of work going remote, everyone was busy building tools to make ‘work’ better. But what about everything else? What about 💬 casual chats, ☕️ coffee breaks and 🏓 game sessions with the team? These were some of the problems we took and tried breaking out of the zooom grid. Creating a virtual space for teams, which is representative of how you would actually interact in real world, by moving around the space, forming smaller groups to talk and socialise. At the same time keeping the benefits of a digital interface, speed and simplicity. I hope you have as much fun using Thursday as we had building it. 💜
Devluc
@nishith_shah Awesome project, love the idea, it's a gem Nishith. Good luck with the launch. Congratulations to you and your team
Meeth Panchal
@almost_designer Congratulations on the launch! Interesting idea and good execution.
Alexey Shashkov
@nishith_shah Nishith, this is super-cool! You're doing very well! My congrats on the launch.
Rucha Joshi
Maker
Hi hunters 👋 I hope you enjoy thursday as much as we do. It has been a fun ride building and testing this product. I’d also like to thank everyone in the community who has given us feedback, motivated and supported us over the last months. I am constantly learning and being inspired by you. ♥️ Would love to know how we can improve thursday for y’all. I am all ears!
Tomi Gelo
@rucha_joshi8 great job to you and the team! Thursday looks gorgeous. I will definitely recommend this to my colleagues.
Rucha Joshi
Maker
@tgel0 Thank you, would love to know how your team social goes :)
Soham Sharma
@rucha_joshi8 Awesome product by awesome team. This is really fun product. I am definitely trying this product.
Daniil Glezer
Looks awesome 🔥🔥
Keren Brickman
@daniilgdg weekly today 💪
Daniil Glezer
@keren_brickman Good idea i trust you to make a fun game 😉
Rucha Joshi
Maker
@daniilgdg @keren_brickman Yay!!!! I am so excited for you all to try it out 🙌
Jan Forsthuber
So cool to see how it turned from a “hobby” to a real deal 💪
Deepa from True Sparrow
Maker
@forst Thanks Jan! Please try it out and let us know how it goes.
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@forst Thanks Jan! It has been fun building and using it ourselves. :) Please try it with your team. Looking forward to your feedback.
Keren Brickman
I absolutely love this idea!! Organizing events and games for Tolstoy takes hours, so this is going to be great for us :) Will you guys be releasing premium features?
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@keren_brickman Thanks Keren. Would love to know which mixers did your team enjoy the most. We started this as a side project, but yes, depending upon the traction that we get, we would plan to add premium features - like custom games.
Keren Brickman
@nishith_shah We'll try one at our weekly today and will letcha know:)
Samantha Becker
@keren_brickman @nishith_shah we played the doodling game!! So much fun, really cool work guys:)
Chris Harris
is it free
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@chrishca Yes, absolutely. We are Folly, a product studio, and we built Thursday, which started as a side-project, for our own team's chill time. So go ahead, have fun and let us know how we can make the experience better.
Bala Panneerselvam
This is really cool. We'll use it in Zorp. Couple of questions. - How do you plan to monetise it? - Do you have a slack integration? Would be easier to access.
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@ibala That's awesome Bala. Would love to hear your feedback. We built Thursday as a side project for our own chill time. But yes, depending on how much traction we get, we can plan to add custom mixers etc which could help us monetize. Slack integration could be smart. What exactly were you thinking?
Bala Panneerselvam
@nishith_shah I can one-click start a mixer from slack instead of finding your website. Makes it easily accessible.
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@ibala Totally! That's a super neat idea.
Toma Rareş
Very nice product! Congrats for the launch!🚀
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@toma_rares Thanks Toma! Would love for you to try it with your team.
Deepa from True Sparrow
Maker
@toma_rares Thanks! Your tips and feedback has really helped us. Keep it coming.
Bertha Kgokong
This looks like a lot of fun, will be trying it out for our next remote "fun thursday" and it happens to be a Thursday today - love it. Well done and congratulations on the launch.
Rucha Joshi
Maker
@berthakgokong Thanks so much! we did plan to launch thursday on Thursday 😁
Aaftaab V
Maker
Thank you @berthakgokong . We would love to hear which mixer you liked the most.
Bertha Kgokong
@aaftaab_v will def be trying the trivia mixer .....
Bertha Kgokong
@rucha_joshi8 Yes and a great idea that was
Anmol Baid
Team chill scenes have never been simpler to plan. I love the no signup, no install approach - click - play. What a vibe Nishith
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@anmol_baid Thanks Anmol! We would love for the Rephrase team to try a social on Thursday. Would be awesome for your ML team to check out our Doodle Race! :)
Etienne Dargnies
Congrats on your launch Rucha and all the Thursday team. @henri_de_bouteiller , @alexa_gueguen , @bronsther , you should check this out.
Rucha Joshi
Maker
@henri_de_bouteiller @alexa_gueguen @bronsther @etidar Thank you so much! Can't wait for you to try out with your team! Would love to know which mixer you enjoyed the most :)
Sergey Bunas
I really like the idea and implementation! Especially smoothness of the whole application with collaboration. Could you please share what tech stack did you use to implement these collaborative features? (mouse movements for all users, drawing sync and etc)
Harvindersingh Chavan
Maker
Thanks for your feedback @serjobas We're using websockets for live cursors and real time data sharing throughout the application. As for tech stack, we have React + Redux on frontend and Golang on backend. I'll be happy to answer any other question you may have.
Aditya Raj Singh
Maker
Thanks, @serjobas , Glad you liked it. So, on Frontend, we have used React and other important libraries like AWS Chime for Audio-Video Capability, web-sockets for real-time messaging(mouse-movements), React-P5 for Canvas in Doodle Race, and Go in the backend. To handle WebSocket connections across multiple servers for the same social we decided to use RabbitMq as a message broker. We extensively leveraged using and goroutines and channels for handling messaging and processing of individual socials separately. I hope I did answer your question, and do let me know if you have any more
Sergey Bunas
@adityarajsingh Thanks for the detailed answer! Why did you pick up Go for the backend? Do you think the same collaborative cursor behavior (like in Figma, Mirro) could be implemented in Node.js, and what are the downsides?
Aditya Raj Singh
Maker
@serjobas So answering your question, We can build the collaborative cursor behavior on Node as well using web-sockets. We chose Go for backend because it's more memory-efficient while NodeJs uses more runtime memory and CPU and it also has single-threaded event loop.
Goutham
The landing page looks so much fun @nishith_shah. Kudos to your team! 🔥 The process of setting up the meeting was so seamless. Also cool of you guys to have enabled the PH tracker and made your stats public.
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@gouthamj Thanks Goutham. Learning building in public from you! :)
Goutham
@nishith_shah Build in public for the win 🔥
Sneha.
i’ve tried thursday, and it’s great — thoughtfully designed, easy to use and fuuun. it doesn’t hurt that it’s super free - what a wild concept!
Harvindersingh Chavan
Maker
@snehasanks Thanks Sneha. Do plan a social with your team. Would love to hear your feedback :)
Rucha Joshi
Maker
@snehasanks Thanks Sneha for being our earliest of adopters and giving us great feedback 🙌
Anshuman Singh
Maker
Hello Product hunt, I am a maker and developer at Thursday.social. I built the Trivia game amongst other things. Try it out and let me know what you think. Btw, did you know Chrome released a new version (95) last week? Well, I didn’t know that up until I realised that audio stopped working on Thursday. After spending an entire night debugging this, I figured out that Chrome 95 prohibits cross-origin workers from sending compiled WebAssembly modules - and we need that for background noise cancellation. Well, long story short, I fixed it over the weekend. And now, keeping fingers crossed for a smooth launch. 🙂 Let me know if you have any tech questions.
Margarita Shvetsova
Hi Thursday team, congratulations on the launch! What a fun product! =D I love it that no setup is needed, just open the link and have fun! Right in time for a remote-work Halloween party ;) ?makers 💪
Shantanu Sharma
Maker
Haha @margarita_s88 , do try hosting remote halloween party with your team and let us know which game you enjoyed the most😀.
Aditya
?makers this is just superb. Love the product, especially that tooltip! Had my first hangout and it was so much fun. Now, I don't know any other better team hangout platform. Btw, I converted right at the 'no sign, no install' stage.
Nishith from True Sparrow
Maker
@adityavsc Wow! You made our day (well, night actually). I'm glad you noticed and enjoyed these small 'delights'. Take a bow @janhavi_patel & @almost_designer!
Harshit Beniwal
Maker
@adityavsc Thank you! We call this the 'Social Panel', helping you as a host understand the spaces inside Thursday and choose what mixer to play next with the team! 😄
Janhavi Patel
Maker
@adityavsc Thank you so much! The pointers are my favourite as well, and we have more in store 😉 And as Nishith said, this made our day 🥳
Viraj Cz
Awesome!! Super cool UI & UX!
Harvindersingh Chavan
Maker
@virajchhajed Thanks Viraj!
Lluís Ventura
Cool! Great job Nishith and team!
Harvindersingh Chavan
Maker
@lluis_m_ventura Thanks Lluis :) Do try it out with your team and let us know your feedback.
Saurav Arya
Love the no sign up required feature. I checked this product yesterday and now I can't think of any better way to host socials for my team. 🙌🏻
Deepa from True Sparrow
Maker
@sauravarya Thanks Saurav! Which mixer did you enjoy the most?
Rucha Joshi
Maker
@sauravarya Thanks Saurav, for your feedback and suggestions ✨ The no-sign up was really important to us.