Cadence

Replace boring meetings with daily, async updates

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Replace boring meetings with daily, async updates

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Slack apps

Cadence is an app that teams use daily to share progress updates and celebrate milestones directly in Slack. With Cadence, teams save their meeting time for collaboration, not for status updates.

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Thanks for hunting us, @katmanalac! Hi Product Hunt, I'm Melissa 👋Today we’re excited to launch Cadence, a Slack app for teams who want to stay in sync without filling up their calendars with boring status meetings. 📖📖Why we're doing this: Before creating Cadence, my co-founder @eric_cadence and I left work each day drained and exhausted. We had difficulty finding time to focus on creative work because of the constant flood of meetings and notifications that broke up our work days. Worse still, refusing to show up to meetings or turning off notifications weren’t viable solutions because we'd quickly become out of touch with what the rest of our team was doing. Yet attending all the constant status meetings that broke up our days into awkward chunks and inconveniently pulled us out of our flow states certainly wasn't sustainable either. As we sat through unproductive meeting after unproductive meeting, we kept asking ourselves what an ideal way to collaborate with our teammates would look like. We landed on the following principles: ★ Async-first ★: Regular, written updates helps teams maintain visibility into the work that's being done, which not only builds trust amongst managers and team members but also helps document and preserve team knowledge. Async updates also allow team members to complete their work whenever it makes the most sense for them, instead of adhering to an inconvenient or strict work schedule. ★ Results focused ★: Traditional notions of accountability equate "seat-warming" and presence with productivity. Real-time status reporting meetings that break up the day don't make sense in a remote-first environment where the highest performing teams focus on results and output. ★ Reduce work about work ★: Meetings can be a powerful tool if used effectively. We strongly believe valuable face-to-face time with your team should be used for brainstorming, problem-solving, and team-building — not wasted on status updates. We used these principles, along with hundreds of interviews and beta trials with remote teams, to ultimately build the version of Cadence you see here today. :) 🤪🤪What makes Cadence special? ⚡️Post updates directly from Slack. Quickly share updates with your team in Slack and replace status meetings with asynchronous updates on your schedule. 🔗Integrations with your favorite tools. Include activities from tools like Github, Jira, and Trello in your updates with just one click. 🐦Big picture overview. Stay on top of what you need to know with daily and weekly summaries that help you keep a pulse on your team's activity. 🤝Keep your team connected. See who's been working together and call out great work, so you can keep team happiness at an all-time high. 😻😻 We'd love to hear your feedback! We couldn't have gotten where we are today without the early feedback from the Product Hunt community and beta users. So, we're offering the PH community free access to Cadence for teams of up to 20! Sign up on our website and mention it here as a comment. Let us know what you think, and thanks for the support! ⚡️

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5yr ago

I really like how simple the UI is, would much prefer something like this to regular update meetings

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5yr ago

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@henry_weller Thanks Henry! We built Cadence to replace regular update meetings and we hope our simple UI makes status updates as simple as possible.

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5yr ago

Perfect Recall

This looks super useful! I'd love to try it out!

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5yr ago

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@davidgu Thanks David, we'd love to have you!

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5yr ago

Ditto

Congrats on the launch! -- super excited to see meaningful shifts in work norms, especially as more teams adapt to remote

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5yr ago

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@ouyangatang Thanks so much for your support Jessica!! And totally agreed. Cadence is definitely timely as remote working becomes the norm for most companies.

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5yr ago

Zaraz

Love this idea. Status meetings are awful, such a waste of time. Hope it will eliminate those forever!

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5yr ago

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@yair_dovrat1 Haha, we totally agree! Glad that our point that meetings should be used on collaboration, not on status updates, resonates so strongly with you.

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5yr ago

Jitter

Looks great! In my experience, processes always fall apart when they are too complex because people just don't want to bother – I really like how you make it a no-brainer to write 1 line about your update! And the auto weekly summary is a great boost to remind the team all that have been accomplished :) Do you plan do go beyond a Slack integration?

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5yr ago

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@robi Thanks so much for your comments! We definitely plan to go beyond a Slack integration, and decided to start with one because one of our core goals is to make submitting updates as simple and painless as possible. Moreover, many teams already use Slack to submit product updates but find it difficult to stay on top of all the noise in Slack. So we provide a simple way for you to record and track all of your updates where you already work :)

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5yr ago

Great product, so much needed in the current remote work environment. Will be looking forward to see how it evolves further!

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5yr ago

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@alex_o11 Thanks Alex! Yes, the current remote work environment certainly calls for teams to re-think how accountability and output is measured. We're happy to be able to help with that -- let us know what you think of Cadence!

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5yr ago

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