Minutes - Make your meetings async with voice and video | Product Hunt

Hello ProductHunt! 👋

I’m super excited to finally launch Minutes today, we’ve been working on it for quite some time with a lot of changes over the last couple of months.

But let me start with a rundown of how we got here:

A few years ago, I was a developer in a remote team, and often had to sit on late-night meetings at 2 or 3AM to fix a thing here or debug something there, because my teammates were in different timezones. I couldn’t help but think if there was a better way to get work done without having to be in these meetings at all.

Over time, I gathered up plenty of reasonable arguments to why sync meetings can slow down productivity massively: be it back-to-back meetings, interruptive meetings, late-night calls, or what have you. My co-founder has a similar experience with sync meetings as well, and we sat together and started ideating on the best way to bring async communication to remote teams!

We started off with a platform to share 1:1 voice and video messages, we did a round of beta testing with it as well, and learned a lot. Then we narrowed things down further, and decided to focus on transitioning sync meetings to async!

From start to today, our vision has always earmarked to “helping people make their work revolve around their lives than their lives revolving around their work”. And by this, we want people to pick the place they want to live in, pick the hours they’re comfortable working with, and let their work adapt to this. Instead of having to shift somewhere else for work, or having to work during hours where you’d rather to be doing something else. And we believe Minutes is a step in the right direction for this vision.

We’ve designed Minutes to be simple and straightforward, so that you can start making your meetings async effortlessly! Do give it a try, and ask us any questions you have, we’ll be active here all day! 🙌

Great idea behind the project. Productivity comes from async collab! Cuts down having to sit in unnecessary meetings. Work becomes part of life. Product simple and straight-forwards.Are there efforts to store ideas to prevent loss through async meetings?

Congratulations on the launch 🎉🎉🎉! Async collab is the key to being productive! Can't wait to try it!

Async beats meetings, once and forever... Great value proposition team, specially for remote collaborators I am willing to try it really soon Best of luck, and congrats!