Yac

When we launched Yac in March of last year, our mission was to reduce the number of meetings teams had by simply having better, more inclusive communication throughout the day. We've shipped countless updates to the app and tons of new features, but at the end of the day, old habits die hard. People are used to sending meeting links. Yac Meet is the first of many ways the team and I are working to push new habits and new ways of working into your existing flows. Your team, investor, vendor, contractor, whoever, expects a calendar invite with a link? Well gosh darn it, we'll give you one. It's gonna be an async meeting though, make no mistake there. We firmly believe you don't need to be online, at the same time, and building your work day around your meeting schedule. Remote work enabled us to work from anywhere, but somehow didn't enable us to work any time. Yac is looking to change that. We want to enable teams to find a new way of working, free from calendars and schedules. The first step in doing so is eliminating those pesky meeting links that require everyone to stop what they're doing and tune into a video call for an hour. Think of Yac Meet like an undercover operation. To everyone else, it feels like the same old same old. Underneath that link though is an async voice messaging channel inside of Yac. You don't even need to be a Yac user to send a link, accept an invite, or participate in the discussion. Yac Meet lets you quickly generate Yac Channel links, along with a topic and description, and even add it to a calendar event right from the tool. You can send invites directly from the app or just paste the link into Slack or an email; it's really up to you. Meetings need to happen, but they don't need to happen in real time. Async meetings enable a new level of inclusiveness that is often overlooked at startups. Not everyone on your team is comfortable chiming in during your video call. Not everyone wants to even be on a video call or give you a portal into their personal space at home. Most importantly, teams are global now. You can't wake up your engineer at 2am to participate in a standup, and at the same time you also can't run the meeting without them. Next time you need to send a meeting link, use yac.com/meet to make it async.

Wow, this is big! My co-founder and I still spend up to 2-3 hours with our huge weekly meeting even though we use Yac for sharing ideas/progress. We save up big discussion points for the meeting but our video call meets don't necessarily even yield the best ideas and plan of action due to fatigue after the first hour. I'm excited this will allow us to get more async meetings going on focused topics and make us 2-3x more productive! Love it guys! Out of all the new products I've used this year, Yac would be the one I'm on most frequently (more than clubhouse)

Love the idea of this - I can see this as being especially helpful for remote teams working in different timezones! Congrats on the launch 🙌

Awesome product @jmitch! Well done!

This is going to now replace every meeting I take as a Product Manager. Seriously amazing job by the Yac team. Meet looks amazing!

Interesting concept @jmitch Have you explored moving into B2C space and replicating some of the methods that ClubHouse uses? Specifically doing one-to-many broadcasting/messages? Also at the times of WFH, I think you could extend into the culture building nice and let employees your tool to establish office/corporate culture.

Smashing it left right and centre! 🔥🔥🔥