Minutes

Make your meetings async with voice and video.

5.0•2 reviews•

538 followers

Make your meetings async with voice and video.

5.0•2 reviews•

538 followers

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Team collaboration software

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Virtual office platforms

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Video and Voice calling

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Meeting software

We all hate sitting in long, unnecessary meetings. Replace all these unnecessary meetings with async meetings! Use your voice and video to communicate effortlessly, on your time. Forget about syncing timezones and instead collaborate with your team seamlessly.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Meetings•Remote Work

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Minutes

Maker

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Hello ProductHunt! 👋 I’m super excited to finally launch Minutes today, we’ve been working on it for quite some time with a lot of changes over the last couple of months. But let me start with a rundown of how we got here: A few years ago, I was a developer in a remote team, and often had to sit on late-night meetings at 2 or 3AM to fix a thing here or debug something there, because my teammates were in different timezones. I couldn’t help but think if there was a better way to get work done without having to be in these meetings at all. Over time, I gathered up plenty of reasonable arguments to why sync meetings can slow down productivity massively: be it back-to-back meetings, interruptive meetings, late-night calls, or what have you. My co-founder has a similar experience with sync meetings as well, and we sat together and started ideating on the best way to bring async communication to remote teams! We started off with a platform to share 1:1 voice and video messages, we did a round of beta testing with it as well, and learned a lot. Then we narrowed things down further, and decided to focus on transitioning sync meetings to async! From start to today, our vision has always earmarked to “helping people make their work revolve around their lives than their lives revolving around their work”. And by this, we want people to pick the place they want to live in, pick the hours they’re comfortable working with, and let their work adapt to this. Instead of having to shift somewhere else for work, or having to work during hours where you’d rather to be doing something else. And we believe Minutes is a step in the right direction for this vision. We’ve designed Minutes to be simple and straightforward, so that you can start making your meetings async effortlessly! Do give it a try, and ask us any questions you have, we’ll be active here all day! 🙌

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3yr ago

FirstHR

@yanchummar Congrats! Best of luck.

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3yr ago

@yanchummar I will try this once it's available for Android. In order to help you guys succeed, please check out volley if possible since there may not be a lot of info online. They raised $6 million dollars, created an awesome async messaging product, but after 2 years of pivoting they never found product Market fit in terms of a profitable business model. They had lots of users , I think around 30,000 and growing , but It turns out that most people still preferred to use text over audio and video to communicate. They were not able to find a viable business model around async audio and video, but hopefully you guys can learn from their mistakes to be profitable!

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

Thanks for sharing this, @robandersenshow! And that's super unfortunate for Volley :( We've designed Minutes to be very easy to adopt to an existing remote workflow. As any quick and big transition is often difficult and unlikely. Our goal with Minutes is to make communication async for teams, and we're willing to try out different approaches to get there effectively. We hope to pick up things from Volley's story and do things differently to get async to more remote teams! 🙌

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3yr ago

💡 Bright idea

Kudos to the Minutes team for a superb launch! 🥂✨ @yanchummar @shibinco I must say, my experience was nothing short of amazing and thoroughly impressed with the product's value proposition. This product will prove to be an invaluable asset for remote teams. I am excitedly anticipating the release of Web, Windows, and Linux versions. When can we expect them to be available?

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

Thank you @ekuttan! Windows and Linux releases are in the pipeline right now, we're hoping to get it out soon! As for web, we're ideating on how we can bring the same experience from the macOS app, to not be interruptive and still be able to record, send and play messages in between your work. We're eyeing on a chrome extension in the near future, how useful would you say that'd be? 👀

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3yr ago

Cool, but… 6$/month for something that's essential equivalent to creating group chats, sending voice and video messages, and then archiving the group chats (in existing tools that you're already paying for)? ^^;

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

@anna_0x That is a totally fair question! While existing tools can help you to create group chats, send messages and archive them. They're not purpose designed for async workflows or async meetings for that matter. We're trying to enable an async workflow that does not include text, doesn't interrupt your work (stays in the menubar), and focuses on purely one purpose: creating and closing meetings. Before building Minutes, my cofounder and I had tried plenty of existing tools with voice and video to work async, and they can get the job done if you can put in the extra effort to keep things tidy, we've found that we can do the same atleast ten times better with Minutes! Hope this answers your question, we'd love for you to try out the product on the free plan and see if you change your mind, we'll be happy to hear why if it doesn't! 🙌

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3yr ago

@yanchummar I hear you and I have not tried the product yet. It’d just be crazy hard to get sign in from my company for something that’s relatively expensive considering that, as you said, with some extra effort, we can already do the same thing. I'm all for paying to save effort, but it's still hard to justify the *per user* pricing. If I want to be able to have these “meetings” with 20 colleagues, that’s 120$ per month, on top of whatever we're already paying for enterprise chat software. And of those 20 colleagues, I might be mostly talking with 2, but I need the other 18 to be available for infrequent chats.

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3yr ago

Happycapy

Congratulations on the launch 🎉🎉🎉! Async collab is the key to being productive! Can't wait to try it!

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

@min_zhou Couldn't agree more! Let me know what you think when you try it out! 🤝

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

@min_zhou Thank you so much! We'd love to hear your thoughts after trying out Minutes :)

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3yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

As for the experience and value, this feels different in a good way. Looking forward to the release on other platforms for supercharged adoption. Cheers for the launch ❤️

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

Thank you, @lazimey! 💜

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3yr ago

@yanchummar Congratulations on the launch 🚀 🎉 As someone working remotely will definitely try it out!

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

Thank you @swalahamani! 🙌

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

@swalahamani Thank you so much! What are the tools are you currently using for the team communication? We would love to know your thoughts after trying out minutes :)

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3yr ago

BuzzBonus

Really cool idea, though one of the things I enjoy about meeting is that it keeps everyone on the same page. Would keeping it async change that?

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3yr ago

Minutes

Maker

Thanks @pothamram! Async wouldn't change that, the best way to stay on the same page while working remotely or asynchronously is to document things properly: that could be as simple as writing down statuses in Notion or tracking statuses in project management tools. And if documentation is not for you, then you can always stay on the same page by a sending voice note or screen recording indicating where things are! Hope this answers your question! 🤝

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3yr ago

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