Grain 1.0 - Share Zoom video clips, transcripts, and live notes for free

Hey PH fam! 👋 Mike here, co-founder & CEO of Grain. After ten months of private beta development, we’re SO excited to announce here on Product Hunt that we’re removing the waitlist for Grain and releasing an all-new Windows app (in addition to our existing Mac app)! 🙌 Teams like Zapier, InVision, Wistia, Slack and more are already using Grain to better understand their customers, users, and each other. And now you can too. We hope that you'll sign-up for free at https://grain.co and give us your feedback to help make Grain even better. 💪 -------- What's new about Grain 1.0? 🙌 No more waitlist 🖥 Support for Windows 🔎 Search 🏷 Tags ✏️ Live highlights in notepad 👯‍♂️ Co-op live note-taking 📜 80% more accurate transcripts 🔄. Share recordings with guests 💪 Grain Pro & Unlimited subscriptions ✨ Whole new look + logo -------- So what is Grain? 🤔 Grain makes it easy to record, transcribe, and share the best parts of Zoom video calls in seconds, not hours. ⚡️ Grain integrates with your existing video meeting workflows (Zoom only for now) to import the recording, transcribe, and make it all searchable across all of your recorded calls. And when you want to share an important moment, Grain makes it absurdly easy to visually create highlight excerpts via text-first video editing. Each video highlight has a unique link that you can embed directly in your favorite apps like Slack, Notion, Medium and Coda. And with the Grain LIVE desktop app, you can even take time-stamped notes during calls and create short video highlights -- it'll save you loads of time and allow you to take up to 90% fewer notes. You can use Grain with your team to create a shared library of important conversations with users, prospects, stakeholders, or internal team meetings -- there are no limits to the number of people you can add to your workspace. -------- Why did we build it? 🧱 Grain's Purpose is to increase shared understanding in the world and our Mission is to help others to listen and be heard. Actually... this highlight I flagged using Grain during a brainstorming session is the exact moment where I was able to articulate this purpose and mission for the first time: https://grain.co/highlight/oH3OB... And if you actually watched that highlight just now, you'll have experienced for yourself a little bit of why we're so excited about what we're building. -- Mike and the team at Grain P.S. Keep up to date and tell us what you think on https://twitter.com/grainhq

I am extremely excited to hunt Grain's official 1.0 Many of the PH community have been avid beta testers of it over the last months :) Grain makes it easy to make long zoom calls accessible for those who weren't able to join. Example usecases could be important team calls or customer research interviews.

I have been using Grain for a few months now ... and it's a true game changer👇 I spend >6hrs per *day* on Zoom, often back to back calls. It's safe to say, I don't have time to take notes after the call ... and at the end of the day I just can't recall what was important and what wasn't. Using Grain, I've been able to take a few timestamped notes during each call. Super easy, low friction. And I can go back and check my notes ... in context! With the recording surrounding it. Tl;dr: I can finally extract a ton more value from all the time I spend in Zoom calls

Grain made it a charm for me to make sense of & communicate the results of an extensive qualitative market research abroad, when travel restrictions didn't allow me to go. No comparison to entire Zoom recordings! I used it in a way that I entered all "snippets" or links into a huge database (5k+), gave each of them a semantic tag & more useful information relevant to the research. That allowed other team members in the client's company to search the entire database (125 interviews, ~40 snippets each) for discreet qualitative data like "mentioned : Competitor X/Y", "mentions: feature Z, positive/negative". Concrete use cases were "what does a certain market segment think about competitor X in geography Y" or ""what does a certain market segment think about feature Z in geography Y". With a little bit of a work-around, I could bundle the most important snippets of a given research question into mini video-reports to share with the the management. They could "pressure load" on qualitative information, given by actual people, in the actual market. E.g. one video would show 30 different interviewees explaining their opinion on a competitor X in geography Y, back to back, ~15 sec. each, so ~7 min. of high-level information told by real users. Compare this to the standard research reports full of charts & infographics... There's just so much qualitative information that gets lost when 1) giving interviews a strict guideline, which most transcription software requires to work well (human communication is not linear!) 2) transcribing spoken word into text 3) reading text that someone else has transcribed Loved it & will use again for a similar project!

Awesome product! Much improved on zoom's own tools and I can see this being an essential add-on for any zoom user who records regularly. 100% a new long term customer!

As a designer in these work from home days, filled with Zoom calls, I found Grain to be invaluable for keeping track of feedback, tagging and extracting key highlights to improve my process.

Such a useful tool for product people. It just makes sense to do customer research using Grain once you try it. Saves so much time across the entire process of gathering and analyzing qualitative information that typically required multiple tools stitched together plus a lot more effort to organize and find insights.

It's actually amazing to look back at my hand written notes from video calls and realize how much information was lost during those meetings. We interview our customers (coaches and analysts) from around the sports world to create content/get feedback, and the hours I used to spend manually going through recordings has been eliminated because Grain makes it so seamless to mark the strongest quotes live. Plus, the ability to quickly review those moments and create shareable clips from the transcript is a game changer. Such a useful and necessary tool in today's world.

Grain is a cheat code to unlock so much value from meetings. Automatic transcripts + the ability to create shareable snippets as quick as highlighting text makes extracting and sharing meeting insights effortless. Best of all - it's so much easier to be truly present in a meeting when I know I can revisit the transcripts/video as soon as the meeting is over. With Grain, I can be a better listener and participant, allowing me to have more in depth conversations. Would go so far as to say that startups that use Grain will have a competitive advantage thanks to accelerated learning & sharing of knowledge. Don't let all that time spent in Zoom go to waste!

This looks amazing! Congrats team