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Hi HN! After selling our first company, my co-founder Vivek and I started working remotely at the acquirer. We discovered we were much more productive than we'd
by dsaffy 6y ago
Hi HN! After selling our first company, my co-founder Vivek and I started working remotely at the acquirer. We discovered we were much more productive than we'd expected, but we struggled with two main issues: communication and loneliness.
Communication friction came primarily from the endless back and forth in Slack / text communication. On the other hand, scheduling a Zoom meeting felt very heavyweight.
Loneliness came more slowly, but speaking to people less often definitely affected my happiness and productivity.
As a result, we built Pragli, a virtual office for remote teams.
In Pragli, you customize your appearance with an avatar and then can hop into audio rooms with one click. Video and screen share are optional.
When you're focusing or other unavailable, you can manually set a status, or automatically set a status via our Spotify and calendar integrations.
FWIW, TechCrunch describes Pragli as "BitMoji for the enterprise." https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/14/pragli-remote-office-application/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/14/pragli-remote-office-appli...
You do have to sign up with Google, Microsoft, or Github OAuth, but there are no additional hurdles beyond that, you are dropped right into a team. You also have the option to skip downloading the desktop app and play with it in the web.
I'm here to answer any questions. Let me know what you think!
- firatcan 6y agoLooks nice, but could you explain what's the difference between other remote team workspace than your avatar. BTW, I never used virtual workspace software. I might not have the problem that you're solving as your potential users
- dsaffy 6y agoSure thing! A couple keys differences: 1) Avatars - as you mentioned 2) Walkie-talkie - most virtual offices have a call analogy, where you call someone to speak. In Pragli, you don't call - you just jump straight into a conversation, but the other side is muted (to protect their privacy). Here's my blog post on this: https://pragli.com/blog/building-a-walkie-talkie-for-remote-work/ https://pragli.com/blog/building-a-walkie-talkie-for-remote-... 3) Some solutions have a very literal office (with a floor plan, etc) - we have a more virtual analogy 4) From what we hear, we have higher quality audio, video, screen share than others (I encourage you to evaluate for yourself)
- oefnak 6y agoAre you saying people can just start talking to me when I'm writing code? or do you mean text messages?
- PaulBGD_ 6y agoIs there any text chat rooms planned or is this something that would have to be used in combination with another software?
- dsaffy 6y agoHi there - currently, we encourage you to use Pragli alongside a text tool (Slack, Teams, even just email). We will evaluate whether or not it makes sense to build one as we go.