Sidekick

We have used Sidekick for our remote team all day, everyday for months. It's an easy way to feel a sense of presence, connectedness, and camaraderie with our team.

We've been happy as customers after a few days... really making a difference to feeling presence with each other. The UI details work just right.

Hi PH! We are Andy, Howard, Greg and Arthur, founders of Sidekick! Like many of you all, we were recently forced to start working remotely because of COVID. We quickly realized that starting a company while remote was brutal: - 🧠 No spontaneous brainstorming - All of the best features we ever built were born out of unplanned conversations at our desks. - 🗣 Increased miscommunication - Being able to quickly ask teammates clarification questions is key to making sure everything is staying on track. - 🎭 Lack of team culture - True connections are forged in random 1-off conversations, not during scheduled meetings. We use Sidekick every day because it's the closest thing to sitting in the same room. Sidekick is a video device that sits on each of your team members desks. On Sidekick, you schedule coworking sessions to simulate working side by side for a few hours a week. 🤔 Who's it for? Sidekick is great for remote cofounders and other fast-paced teams that care about building a strong team bond. We're working with 20 Y Combinator companies along with teams at Bloomberg and Spotify. We understand that Sidekick isn't for everyone! If you don't particularly want to talk to your team during the day, Sidekick probably isn't a great fit. Until August 1st new teams get a discounted price of $25/user/month (normally it's $50/user/month). The hardware comes for free with the subscription and we cover the shipping. We'd love to hear your feedback. If you have any thoughts or questions, please email me at andy@realismlabs.com.

What an absolute nightmare. This is not the way to treat remote work.

Sidekick literally brought me back into the "hacker house" with my co-founders (digitally), allowing us to constantly communicate and always stay in sync with ease. I probably have ~10 short conversations a day using Sidekick, and it is, by far, the most effective tool I've used to keep our founder communication going strong. Awesome product, awesome team behind it. Thank you so much, Sidekick team!

We've been using Sidekick for many months now and it has been the most important remote work tool we've tried by far. We're a small team where pre-remote work all you had to do was spin your chair around in the office to speak with someone so going full remote was very challenging for us at first. There was enough of a hurdle to message someone on Slack, post a meeting link and wait for them to join that we found we weren't having the short, "I just had an idea", or "could you help me really quick so I don't spend an hour trying to figure this out myself" conversations we used to have which really started scaring us so we gave Sidekick a try and haven't felt the need to look for any other remote work tools since.

We use Sidekick for onboarding new, remote employees and love it. We have been able to shorten the learning curve and onboarding time by having instant, ad-hoc conversations vs. scheduling time to meeting. We have even displaced Slack with Sidekick for many conversations --- great product!