This is a great idea, and I say it because I have the same exact same idea in my list of ideas I would like to work on but it's no where near the top of the list. I'm grateful that someone has solved for this!
Launch HN: Tandem (YC S19) – A Virtual Office for Remote Teams
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#62I recently read Carl Newport's "deep work". One of the points he made that struck home the most was that a leading indicator of success for most knowledge workers was the number of hours spent doing deep work. Ie - the number of hours spent doing uninterrupted work that makes use of your differentiated skills. As a remote worker the thing I treasure most is the opportunity to organise my schedule to spend the majorit…
I hear you and I love Cal Newport's work (as well as PG's Maker-vs.-Manager essay). For us, the Focus mode was critical to allow people to disconnect. In addition, we find that organic, short conversations on Tandem are much better than endless back-to-back meetings.
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#63This is a great idea, and I say it because I have the same exact same idea in my list of ideas I would like to work on but it's no where near the top of the list. I'm grateful that someone has solved for this!
Thanks! We're excited to help remote teams get to the next level of communication.
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#64Great idea! Since you're using Electron/React, did you guys build something in-house for the screen sharing + cursor collaboration? in my experience, nodeJS is really bad at this kind of real-time stuff
We're using Elixir on the backend, which is great for real time communication. It's also a very stable backend platform in general. I agree, doing shared message passing on Node is quite challenging.
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#65Do the chat/call/video call functions rely on Slack or Hangouts? Can it be done standalone?
Nope, we ship with our own voice/video/screenshare, no external dependencies.
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#66Repl.it is also adding pair programming to their online IDE. I'm curious how you will differentiate. Video chat seems like a dime a dozen these days.
We've built it with the internal/with-your-team use-case in mind, which lets us eliminate a huge amount of friction! There are also some really useful things we can do around presence.
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#67Congratulations with the launch! It's what I was looking for a few years. I mean I've been working in remote teams for years, and have thought about the exact service with screen/voice-message sharing features, as you created. I believe easy screen sharing is important part of remote work, thought I think it should be in other way, i.e. I want to share a part of my screen (static pic or video) with a comment/question…
I love the idea of sharing a part of screen, pic or video to create a conversation around it. We were chatting about a similar thing the other day. You've thought about this quite a bunch.How would you envision that experience? The good morning use case is awesome. We have some teams that have a room called "Good Morning". You can join there if you're the first one to start the day, and other can join you as they get…
As a screen sharing as an MVP I see a button (menu/keyboard shortcut/etc) to take a screenshot (or record screen for a few seconds), crop it and then record any voice comment. It should be super simple to execute, easy to do as instagram stories.
I see few use cases here: one part is about a code you're working now. Like "what the heck is this?". or getting feedback on show some progress on the work you're doing, to show colleagues when you've finished a screen, mockup, or even slide for a deck, etc. I believe it's important for a remote team to have such moments, it gives extra motivation for both sharer and viewer, an improves feeling of a team work.
Also please consider making a mobile app for recording messages. Laptop is often used for a some heavy work, may be connected to an external display w/o any camera, so it becomes inconvenient to record messages from it. But an cell phone can do the job.
PS I will be glad to give more feedback. As you noticed, after having almost 20 years of work in remote teams I've put a lot of thoughts in a product like this, so will happy to give some help, you can reach me by igor@artamonov.ru
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#68Pretty neat but 2 problems for me:
1) wish it was free like Slack and pay to upgrade for advanced feature
2) wish it had chat feature. not everyone will be available to talk in which we will have to switch back and forth with Slack or some other messaging tools.
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#69So stoked to see Linux support.... I've been looking for something like this for my Linux-based team. If it works well, we'll be a customer!
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Compared with Slack and Zoom, it's way faster - just click and start talking! Think of it as push-to-talk, 2.0, with a richer sense of presence (seeing what work app, so you know if you're interrupting anything).
Push-to-talk was the killer feature for us. We've been using it extensively. There are no silver bullets in managing (and being) remote teams, but Tandem helps a lot along the way!
So they created the tap-you-on-the-shoulder problem for remote workers?
I prefer being scheduled not someone blaring audio at me because it’s convenient for them... but it’s what the business owners want