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Sourcegraph CEO here. I came across a product here on HN that is helping with the problem of being a maker at a company with meetings. It’s called Meetter (htt

by sqs 7y ago

Sourcegraph CEO here. I came across a product here on HN that is helping with the problem of being a maker at a company with meetings. It’s called Meetter (https://www.meetter.app/ https://www.meetter.app/) and it lets you block off a specific hour each day/week for meetings instead of making your entire day open to scattered meetings. I am just speaking as a happy user and customer, I am not affiliated with them in any way.

dpflan 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this. As the CEO of a company, did you introduce this to the rest of your company? How long have you been you using it? Also, previously, did you try the strategy of blocking time for yourself that prevents people from scheduling meetings with you during this "solo" time?
techslave 7y ago
i’m having trouble understanding how this could possibly be useful. if you only want to meet 2 hr per day, you’re gonna have a very very hard time coordinating with others that have a different hour set aside. and you could just block off all me time in your existing calendar anyway.
cstrasen 7y ago
I am on-and-off conversing with the team at meetter ever since we started using it for some of our meetings. They are very responsive and helpful. The concept is solid but it takes a cultural shift which can be hard. I am all for less but better meetings and condensing the schedules. If someone would ask me to describe what meetter is I would say "An automated team assistant that tries to make sure that all topics of your org can get focused meeting time in one or multiple big blocks" "Good" orgs will push for a commitment that everyone is available at the _same_ time slots, say 2 hours every Mon, Wed, Fri. Meetter (and well created topics) will do the rest and nobody needs to juggle. Prerequisite is having enough meeting spaces or being more remote as the number of _parallel_ sessions (formerly called breakouts) is dynamic. Edit: also the slack integration is great, makes creating topics a breeze and helps transparency.

by sqs 7y ago

dpflan 7y ago

Thanks for sharing this. As the CEO of a company, did you introduce this to the rest of your company? How long have you been you using it? Also, previously, did you try the strategy of blocking time for yourself that prevents people from scheduling meetings with you during this "solo" time?

techslave 7y ago

i’m having trouble understanding how this could possibly be useful. if you only want to meet 2 hr per day, you’re gonna have a very very hard time coordinating with others that have a different hour set aside. and you could just block off all me time in your existing calendar anyway.

cstrasen 7y ago

I am on-and-off conversing with the team at meetter ever since we started using it for some of our meetings. They are very responsive and helpful. The concept is solid but it takes a cultural shift which can be hard. I am all for less but better meetings and condensing the schedules. If someone would ask me to describe what meetter is I would say "An automated team assistant that tries to make sure that all topics of your org can get focused meeting time in one or multiple big blocks" "Good" orgs will push for a commitment that everyone is available at the _same_ time slots, say 2 hours every Mon, Wed, Fri. Meetter (and well created topics) will do the rest and nobody needs to juggle. Prerequisite is having enough meeting spaces or being more remote as the number of _parallel_ sessions (formerly called breakouts) is dynamic. Edit: also the slack integration is great, makes creating topics a breeze and helps transparency.