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Catherine Raffaele

Watercoolr - Your always on drop-in virtual coworking space

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Watercoolr is an app that helps you connect with other remote workers day and night across the world. Giving you easy access to socialise, collaborate or simply just 'be' around other people. Select which watercoolr room you want to visit and get connecting.

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Catherine Raffaele
Maker
A big hello to the Product Hunt community! πŸ‘‹ This is our first launch on Product Hunt! The problem we wanted to work on was freelancer mental health in the pandemic. We sent out a survey and got 50 responses in less than a day. We found that the overwhelming top two issues impacting our group was social isolation and lack of productivity. We left open an option for people who weren't freelancers to answer and almost half our responses were from non-freelancers - but the results were the same. Social isolation and lack of productivity were still the top issues. Here are some of the responses when asked what might help: - Better tools to support community and interaction/dialogue - Something that will help me find my community with whom I can be vulnerable with - Accountability check ins So we decided to create something that would help with both social isolation and productivity. We focused on virtual coworking. What currently exists is usually silent and often 1-1 and scheduled. As remote workers, we wanted something that we could drop into at anytime with options to actually talk to other people as well. Sometimes we wanted to get work done and sometimes we just wanted company and sometimes we just wanted talk with someone who got where we were coming from. We're starting off with a silent coworking room, one with lofi music and a room for supportive chats and plan to add more as we learn about what our community wants and needs. There's a lot more that we want to include and improve! Because we're all based across the world (India, UK + Australia), we used Watercoolr to support us building the app and it was really, really nice not to be doing our work alone as a distributed team. If you think Watercoolr would help you - please check us out at https://watercoolr.app and register an account so you can help us build the next version! As a bonus, we'll be doing a session with our beta testing community on how we built the Bubble app without any code. We would love any questions and feedback you have, this is for the global remote working community and we want to support you however we can!
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
@eugenehp Thank you! Eugene! πŸ™
Swapnil Daga
Congrats on launch, accountability check-in idea esp in remote working environment is pretty needed. Is 1-1 or silent coworking rooms the only idea that is being worked upon, or is there anything else that you guys are planning with regards to accountability check-ins?
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Hey Product Hunt folks, my team has personally faced this challenge of working remotely while maintaining productivity. We hope WaterCoolr will help you. We are still looking for beta testers and a lot of feedback. Thanks:))
Arnav Bathla
@anjali_sharma14 amazing concept Anjali:) There’s definitely a need for it! Looking forward to how it growsπŸš€ Good luck!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Thanks a lot, Arnav πŸ™Œ
Andrew Wearring
It's been a while since I worked in an office, but I've missed the presence of colleagues and the incidental interactions. Also love that I can choose between different levels of interaction! 😊
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
@andrewwearring The choice of different ways to interact is one our favourite features so it's great that you've singled that out. Let us know if there's anything else that you'd like in the experience.
Andrew Wearring
@cathyraffaele The only thing missing is being able to visit the coffee shop with someone for a break! β˜• If I can think of anything serious I'll post. πŸ˜…
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
@andrewwearring Haha! That's actually not such a bad idea (esp after lockdown's over)!
Dipankar Sarkar
Looks great, will definitely try it out!
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
@dipankar_sarkar Thanks! We'd love to get your feedback when you try it out.
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Thanks Dipank, your feedback will be of great value :))
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@dipankar_sarkar Thank you! Look forward to receiving your inputs
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
Having worked as a solo founder, as well as being part of remote working teams the journey always felt lonely. It made me realise even if people are not a part of your organisation or startup the need to socialise helps immensely. Back then there was no such platform or forum to help me overcome this feeling. But when my fellows at the Global Build Weekend were matched, this seemed like the most obvious problem to solve. As our research also helped us understand that social isolation is an unaddressed issue for solopreuners, freelancers, consultants. Our hope and aim with this product is to be a small part of your vast journey <3
Anjali Sharma
Maker
@amrita_sarkar I hope we will succeed in our mission of creating a productive coworking spaces!!
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@anjali_sharma14 Yes, we will work towards creating such global workplaces
Shreya Jayant
This is so great. As an aspiring product manager, I love how creative this is. And you built it with no code tools, right? Maybe I'll give my idea a shot as well :)
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Hey, thanks for the feedback Shreya. Yes, this is built in bubble, a complete no-code web!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Hey, thanks for the feedback Shreya. Yes, this is built in bubble!
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@hithisisshreya we are a no-code bunch. More power to you on building your dream project.
Lucy Chen
Congrats on the launch, y'all! Recreating that magic of collaborating and getting to know someone live has been such a struggle, especially in today's world. So glad to see a product helping to address isolation, especially for remote workers! Congrats on the launch, can't wait to try this πŸŽ‰
Anjali Sharma
Maker
We are glad you like it, Lucy! This product is meant for this purpose only. We will figure out ways to scale and hope it will be helpful to many. Thanks for your feedback β™₯️
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@lucyc Thank you Lucy! we hope to strive and make this a special place for remote workers
Felix Wong
Great product run by great team. All the best!
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
@felix12777 Thanks Felix! I hope you find it useful, please let us know if you have any feedback.
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Felix πŸ™Œ
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@felix12777 Thank you Felix :)
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Anjali Sharma
Maker
@ayushi_d_lal I am glad you like it, Ayushi :))
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@ayushi_d_lal :) thank you for supporting us!
Mayank Mishra
This is definitely my favorite launch in a while! πŸš€ You folks have done an amazing job in such a short time and across time zones.. πŸ™ŒπŸ”₯ go ODNC!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
We are still learning from your Launch, Mayank πŸ˜… Thanks for your support β™₯️
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@mishra_mayank Thank you MM!!
Millie Faith
Wow!,I was looking for something similar, got it!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Glad you found it useful :)) You feedbacks/suggestions would be of great value!
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@milliefaith Let us know what do you think about the product, would love your inputs
Anjali Sharma
Maker
We all want only blue water! We can get it anywhere. Enjoy that blue water with us at WaterCoolr
Ivan G
Do you have native apps (not Electron based)?
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Hey Ivan, we have built this using no-code tools, majorly bubble hence for the MVP, we started with the web app path but would definitely explore the native app view. Anything specific you feel is an advantage of a native app?
Helga Brayton
Astonishing!!
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@braytonhelga Thank you Helga :) hope to see you on the platform
Swapnil Daga
Congrats on the launch!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
Thanks a lot, Swapnil :))
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@swapnil_daga Your support means a lot to us!
Colin Alsheimer
Love this idea!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
@colin_alsheimer We are glad that you like it, Colin :))
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@colin_alsheimer Thank you Colin :)
Yogini Bende
This is such a cool concept when we are struggling to work alone at home. Great work team πŸ™Œ
Anjali Sharma
Maker
@ms_yogii Thanks for the feedback, Yogini. We have tried to solve something we have personally faced and we're glad people can relate to it :))
Amrita Sarkar
Maker
@ms_yogii Thank you Yogini for your inputs. Look forward to seeing you on the platform.
Christophe Garrec
I like the name. Good luck with the launch!
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
@christopheau Thanks Christophe! All credit there goes to our amazing wordsmith @a_la_lauriance
Ali Alsayed
Congratulations on the launch @cathyraffaele! Good to see you here launching an awesome product πŸš€
Catherine Raffaele
Maker
Hey @ali_alsayed thanks for the support! Great seeing you here and hope you like the app! Do let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
Welly Mulia
I think this is a neat idea to solve isolation problems faced by remote folks. Congrats on the launch!
Anjali Sharma
Maker
@welly_mulia Thanks a lot. We are glad you like it:))