Comeet

Love that this is fully async. @rrhoover and I try to collab async at Weekend Fund as much as we can.

Hi everyone 👋 , and thanks Ben Lang (@benln) for hunting us. We are super excited to launch our beta of comeet.me here today, as a tool that adds video-first async meetings to your Calendar 📆 I spent more than 800 hours in meetings in 2018 (😱). We meet to make decisions, to sync with our team, ask for feedback, share our plan... but forcing all participants to be connected at the same time is a pain, especially now in remote-distributed mode. With comeet.me just invite participants and introduce any discussion with a 2-minute video. Participants will be able to contribute in video, voice, or text even if they aren’t users. Use comeet.me for: - Fully async meetings. In your check-ins, to share an idea with your team, to ask for feedback, to discuss your next blog post, or to present your roadmap. - To connect. To praise a teammate, to help a user, or to contact a lead. Connect personally with them, and build human relationships. - As an interruption killer. Do you have 5 min for a quick call? Instead, just share a short video with your needs and let others respond when they have the time to. - As a meeting shortener. Present the meeting goal or agenda, introduce the discussion, or just present the slides before the meeting starts to get right to the point. We’ve been working hard for 4 months building and iterating comeet.me (thanks alpha testers!), and we are having a lot of fun using it. 🙏 We’d love to get your feedback to keep improving. Happy to answer your questions! PS: If you want to have your first async meeting (without needing to be a user), just send me an email to llventura at comeet.me and I will create one with you (I will only use your email for that purpose). PSS: Special thanks to @chrismessina for his valuable inputs.

I actually really like this concept and applaud you for trying a NEW way to do "meetings." Not everything requires a live Zoom/Meet and as someone who does multiple every day, I really like this. Going to jump in and give it a try.

This sounds so interesting! Comeet seems like a good solution to end with endless, useless meetings. I'm quite fed up of zooming all day. Async communication sounds like an utopia right now. Hopefully it will spread to normal and have more spare time to be more productive or just to be with friends or family! Thanks for the info!

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Like this idea a lot, texting on slack is sometimes not enough but a zoom is too much...nice middle ground here. Will recommend this to some heavy zoomers let's see what they say.

Really love this idea and it comes at a great time. There are a lot of companies still learning how to be remote and how to enjoy being with one another virtually. I think this idea bridges that gap with video while still keeping meetings off the calendar.