The problem they claim to address is real. However, the product not really addresses it. It's too close to email and existing messengers. [ Problem ] - Meetin

The problem they claim to address is real. However, the product not really addresses it. It's too close to email and existing messengers. [ Problem ] - Meetings have the potential to really keep a team together - Teams are distributed throughout geography, time zones or daily life patterns - So how to bring GOOD meetings online, and perhaps even make them asynchronous? "Meetings" come in different flavors, for example - Weekly or monthly meetings to look back, learn, and discuss how to move on - Daily scrum / daily standup to get a shared view of the day - Ad hoc meetings to address a smaller but immediate issue - Water cooler meetings which allow for serendipity ... So for meetings in person, the real challenge is to get everyone attending, even if there is lot of urgent / important work to do. On the flip side: Keep the signal / noise ratio of the meeting so everyone feels it's time well spent. [ Solution ] So my vision for a better tool would include: - Separation of reading mode and writing mode. You should be able to write in the sense of offloading thoughts without the need / option to read through everyone else's notes at the same time - Asynchronous default. Stuff you write should be considered a draft until intentionally "published" (exception: urgent stuff / water cooler stuff). That would allow revising bigger thoughts before a "meeting". - Even asynchronous, virtual meetings should have schedules. So for "daily" meetings, there should be a function that makes sure that everyone reads and writes at least once a day. For "monthly" at least once a month, but without that becoming a continuous "monthly meeting", which wouldn't allow to really focus on it.