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Chris Messina

Switchboard - Work side-by-side, even when you’re not in the same room

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Get more done together in interactive rooms for remote meetings and projects. Work side-by-side in the tools you already use: web-based apps, images, files, and PDFs. No need to share your screen or toggle between tabs. Just teamwork, like it used to be.

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Danny Hatcher 🔎
This looks and sounds awesome. Do local based apps work as well? I am thinking things like Obsidian.
Amir Ashkenazi
Maker
Thank you @dannyhatcher! Currently all web-based apps work, native apps can be screen shared and multiple screen shares in a room are supported.
Danny Hatcher 🔎
@amir_ashkenazi Thank you! As a solo worker I am not sure the use case but I am sure to recommend this to team workers.
Connor Jewiss
This looks genius! A real game-changing idea.
Deborah Kelson
Maker
@connorjewiss Thanks, Connor. The cloud browsers are changing the way teams get work done together. I definitely don’t miss sharing my screen!
Amir Ashkenazi
Maker
Thank you @connorjewiss, really appreciate it and would love to get your feedback on the product once you try it 🙏
Gaurav Bhushan
Those recurring meetings around the same docs and with the same people are never going to be the same again 🔥🔥🔥
Amir Ashkenazi
Maker
@bgaurav Exactly! We use it every day. It saves the prep time as each meeting starts exactly where we left it off the last time. Thank you 🎉
Camille Ricketts
So excited about this! Absolutely astonishing team building a product that is much needed! 🎉 Cannot wait to watch this take flight! Congrats!!
Amir Ashkenazi
Maker
@camille_ricketts1 Thank you 🎉
Deborah Kelson
Maker
@camille_ricketts1 Notion is one of our favorite apps to use in Switchboard. Thanks for being a fan from the beginning!
Anne Juan
Love this product! Been testing it with @vboughner and some other former coworkers, and it's been a blast! I love how customizable the rooms are, so it feels much warmer and personable than meeting through Teams or Zoom. But it's also got so many plug-ins and features for productivity. I personally love the post-it notes!
Van Boughner
Maker
@anne_juan Thanks so much for your endorsement here, it means a lot to us! It's been great to keep in touch with you and our other former co-workers using Switchboard. Glad you are enjoying the post-it notes feature!
Marco Iacono
Maker
@vboughner @anne_juan Thank you so much for the support, Anne! We've been using it regularly for game hours too and it's been super fun!
Marco Iacono
Maker
👋🏼 Hi everyone and thanks so much for your support! While doing research early last year, we spoke to dozens of PMs, project managers, designers, and engineers to hear about their experiences working remotely during the first year of the pandemic. Though most agreed that videoconferencing solutions like Zoom and Google Meet saved the day as we suddenly found ourselves working from home, I wanted to more deeply understand where these tools fell short and what problems we could help address with Switchboard. The feelings were overwhelmingly consistent: 🌎 We gained so much flexibility in being able to work from anywhere, but we lost the ability to have spontaneous conversations with our teammates 📉 It’s just hard to get things done together. Working on a project means spending time across a number of different web applications at the same time and trying to juggle them on a video call feels like... juggling. 😵‍💫 It’s exhausting to stare at faces all day 🚨 Sharing your screen is stressful. We're worried about notifications popping up, accidental oversharing, and privacy overall. 🌪 We always have (what seems like) hundreds of browser tabs open with important documents and web-apps waiting to be shared — it's a mess and it slows down our computers. Our mission is to help teams overcome these issues and make teamwork the best part of work. And since we’re a fully remote company, we live on the Switchboard platform everyday and we each feel the relief we’re hoping others experience while using it. We want to build the best tools for remote work, and define through our experiences, a set of exemplary practices for building remote companies that will will enable the next generation of startups and innovations. I’d love to hear what you think about Switchboard and how we can make it even better!
Shane Geldbach
I have been so excited to try this out. Congrats on the release!
Deborah Kelson
Maker
@shanegeldbach Thanks for the well wishes and good vibes!
deepu
this is sick af....congrats on the launch
Amir Ashkenazi
Maker
@pradeeb28 Thanks :-)
Sean Song
Amir and team, congratulations! Nice launch! A quick question, have you thought about how a hardware team can collaborate remotely? Imaging two engineers (1 hardware, 1 firmware) need to sit together playing the oscilloscope to get right wire frequencies. I ask because we are a hardware team, I'm looking for ways to be fully remote (at least hybrid).
Marco Iacono
Maker
@seansong hi Sean! We definitely want Switchboard to be the best platform for all remote teams. One way we will make this possible for hardware-focused teams is by allowing you to add multiple cameras to a room that you can use to share a physical whiteboard, a screen on a hardware device like an oscilloscope, or even a fresh prototype straight from the CNC machine. You can try it today by pressing Option+E while in a room to surface a QR code you can scan with your phone’s camera. It’s still being tested internally, but I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think.
Sean Song
@iacono Option+E works by showing the QR code, it is cool to quickly bring the phone into the live.
Marco Iacono
Maker
@seansong glad you like it. Feel free to reach out to me with any feedback!
Arunava Das
It's a great product @chrismessina thatnks for hunting👍
Amir Ashkenazi
Maker
Thank you @arunava_das_ ! There is a feedback button in the app, let us know how you use it and how can we make it better...
Arunava Das
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