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Thanks so much for sharing the above, I really loved the thesis and approach.

Fully agree to the process, delegating tasks is a bandaid approach that still has bottlenecks

``` product engineer, all the way from talking with customers to debugging PostgreSQL sequence that went astray. Looking a jobs around me and how specialized and (in my view) limited in scope... ```

Fully agree with you on this, I think its just the nature of the game that roles get more specialised as time flows, but the bond between customers and engineers should always exist

Hey HN!

I am super excited to share our early product with everyone working remote.

Why did we build Remoteworkly?

We became remote 1.5 years ago (before it was cool) and saw ourselves in 3-4 hours of zoom calls a day. This was exhausting, demotivating and non-productive. Meetings stretched forever, and tbh most of them weren't needed.

70% of communication is body language, that we miss over a zoom call, so we're constantly "over-delivering" behind the camera. (not like that, you dirty mind ) and 4 hours of video calls can drain you out.

As of now, HBR states 71% managers find meetings unproductive, CNBC told us 67% of team members spend way too much time in meetings.

With tools like Slack, Teams and "always-on" culture, staff are constantly bombarded with pings and FOMO prevents us from stepping away from our computer, leading to really long and stretched out work hours.

This lead to zoom fatigue, team disconnects, and people generally just wanting to get back into the office.

Lastly, with hybrid models, you end up having half the team in the office doing standups, and everyone else is left out. This leads to disconnection and makes you feel like its highschool all over again

With all this happening, we wanted to productise our process that cut down 4 hours of daily meetings to 10 mins max of calls. We've adopted a pure async approach and we've never been happier

With RemoteWorkly Send a video message instead of holding an unwanted meeting

- Async video meetings with transcriptions for teams to communicate across timezones and offices. Aka video walkie talkie

- Use video threads for meetings, onboarding staff, client feedback for agencies, building internal wikis.

- Share your stand up. Stay connected. Discuss work and see who's working on what...all without another "catch up meeting"

- Work with all your tools in one place. No need to switch between apps with our 2-way integrations

- Hold better meetings with meeting agendas, talking points, and actionable outcomes as a result of meetings.

- Auto-share meeting summaries to slack in one click, no more switching context

- Create tasks in your fav work tool straight from your meeting notes, you can close all your tabs

- Set and manage your short term and long term OKRs to hit you and your teams goals

If we're missing a feature, upgrade or integration, please let me know - we'd love to fix that

We'd love for you to try us out and help us improve the future of work

Feel free to check us out : https://remoteworkly.co/?ref=hn ! We'd love to hear your feedback

Marketing formula 101: How to get _ without doing _ so you can also be like _.

Haha I love Daniel's approach to this. He's a legend!

Yeah I love how they handle their systems

Do you think it’s a good idea? | BAD | Only the market decides whats good

Would you buy a product which did X? | BAD | You're asking for opinions from optimistic people, they'll always say yes

How much would you pay for X? BAD | Ask them how much the problem costs right now

Why do you bother? | GOOD | You understand the perceived problem. You understand why they go through the pain

What are the implications of that? | GOOD | Distinguishes between a need and a want. If you don't use Xero, your accounting is screwed

Talk me through the last time that happened. | GOOD | Understand how often they face the problem

Talk me through your workflow. | GOOD | Understand how they solve the problem

What else have you tried? | GOOD |

Figure out what people are doing to solve the problem

Would you pay X for a product which did Y? | BAD | People are optimistic and tell you what you want to hear

Where does the money come from? | GOOD | Understand the decision makers

Who else should I talk to? | GOOD | If they're not willing to recommend then your problem isn't big enough, you havent explained it well

^^^ Inspired by the Mom Test

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Hey everyone!

In short, I got frustrated having unproductive meetings for 3 Hours each day

So the team and I created systems to improve our meeting efficiency over the year

We went from 2-3 hours of meetings daily to 10 Mins a day

Here's what we did:

- Daily stand-ups, What was done | What will be done | Blockers - Aggressive use of loom to record videos and throw questions vs setting up calls - Build up tasks to achieve OKRS, not just set OKRS with no plan on hitting them - Call Summary before creating a call, the person wanting a meeting is responsible for setting up the exact agenda - People can opt-out of meetings after viewing agenda - 3-4 Minutes before the meeting ends, we summarise what are the outcome is and what needs to be done - Tasks are allocated and we move on - Last pain point was dealing with Slack, Google Meets, Trello, Notion

This lead us to build https://remoteworkly.co , a way to get rid of useless meetings and make work fun!

I've productised our approach and I'd love your feedback on what's being built!