Swingby - Spontaneous video conversation for remote teams

@thomas_bonnardot thanks a lot for Hunting us 🙌 Swingby was created from simple frustration: the lack of spontaneous conversation when working remotely. The current situation forces many of us to work remotely – and maintaining a good team spirit and cohesion can be difficult, especially for teams that are not used to work this way. We tried a lot of things to stay close and agreed that video conferencing was a good way to recreate what we had when working in the same office – so we've started to create a recurring "Morning Coffee" meeting ☕ Not a mandatory meeting, but always here for anyone to drop by and say Hi 👋 This was great, but it was only a one-time-in-day gathering and then it was radio silence... 🦗 That's when we started thinking about a way for those gathering to be more present and spontaneous in our day to day – we were picturing people just moving around in the office and starting talking to each other... but how to achieve that when remote? Three quarantined weekends later – Swingby was live 🚀 It's fairly easy to use – you can create or join a channel, and start spontaneous discussions with the people in it. And if you don't feel like talking – silence is good as well. What's important is to be always connected so that the effort to speak your mind is minimal. You can just hang in a channel with your team and only activate the microphone and camera when you want to share a thought – this helped us feel closer as if we were working on the same table. To face the current COVID-19 crisis and the lockdown of so many cities now, we have released a public space for Swingby – free for everyone and forever. No credit card nor email required. We currently only support desktop applications for Mac – but we are working hard to bring Swingby to other platforms 🙌

Thanks for your message @thibaut_van_der_werf ! We used to use Discord as well and stopped for the exact same reason. When you're six people on a channel and someone talk, you're never sure who's actually speak – and you only get half of the intent with video 😉

Hi @adrien_aglae_delaby ! Glad you liked it – we're missing so much interaction when working remotely, especially spontaneous thought that are never "important" enough to plan a call to speak them out. I think that's actually really valuable interaction that are being lost – and Swingby will definitely help you get them back 💪