Hi Hunters! 👋 I'm Ray, Co-founder of Allo (formerly BeeCanvas). November last year, we rolled out BeeCanvas on Product Hunt. And, we have learned a lot from our users over the past four months. We built a best-in-class online whiteboard for real-time brainstorming or ideation but we realized we could solve a bigger problem. As it turns out, our users loved using us to communicate with their team asynchronously with our visual and interactive docs. So, the concept of 'online whiteboard' wasn't enough to describe what we built, and we've decided to rebrand our product to help users perceive our fundamental value. Today, I'm thrilled to introduce our new name, Allo. Allo is the space where you work when you are not in the office. With Allo, you can work confidently with a team whenever or wherever you work. All of us are having a difficult time due to COVID-19. We no longer commute to our workspaces; now, instead, we do meetings using video conference software like Zoom. For me, aside from the Zoom fatigue, it was harder to convey my ideas without the context surrounding in-person meetings— that's where Allo kicked in. In retrospect, without Allo, I couldn't have worked with the distributed teams in SF and Seoul. Allo has been a virtual office for our team, not just an online whiteboard. The fundamental value of Allo is helping us overcome the difficulties we face due to the timezone, location, cultural and language differences. We use Allo every day for discussing our ideas, initiatives, design, and plans. I promise we will develop Allo even more, with our true north of solving distributed teams' problems. We are also actively developing our mobile apps with the same standard of excellence to ship next month. The Product Hunt community has helped us reveal our new vision. Thank you all, and Ryan! TL;DR: We are rebranding the product to deliver our core value clearly and the idea came from our users. BeeCanvas is now Allo. I'm delighted to announce we are launching the Allo desktop app. Why you should download the Allo desktop app -Fast performance and reliability -Desktop notifications -Seamless and excellent video chat -More features made exclusive for the desktop app will be updated soon Next up -iOS, Android apps -Better experience for iPad -Custom template builder and template gallery. -Integration with your daily apps Free 3-month Team trial for Product Hunt: Normally, the Team plan is priced at $12/user, but for the next 72 hours only, it'll be complimentary for the next 3 months when you sign up using the link: http://bit.ly/allo-for-desktop We're so grateful for your support. Without you, this wouldn't be possible. Ray Co-founder of Allo

Cool One!! Unique work !! Hope it will do better !!

Nice work!

Hey @raymond_hong congrats on the launch! Love your logo’s mascot! How do you plan to compete with Miro, Monday, Trello, Asana and so on?

As a current Allo (and former BeeCanvas) user, I can say that @raymond_hong's product has made a massive impact on our team's velocity. By taking the best parts of our favorite tools and combining them into one, we can brainstorm, prototype, and leave feedback all in a single place. It's our source of truth for anything visual. Highly recommend checking it out.

Cool product! I have been looking for a solid product to reduce back-and-forths in remote teams. How did you come from BeeCanvas to Allo? Pretty "drastic" change in name, but I like it.

Been using this for a while for various use cases, really great stuff, congrats guys!

I've used this before it was rebranded (BeeCanvas). I think the whiteboard-based workplace by the BeeCanvas was kinda first-ever introduced at that time, and now many of famous services like Google Meet copy the feature. I'm so excited to see this huge update and the rebranded version, ALLO. Great job 💪

Congrats to all of you. I'm really excited to use it. On the other hand, I also wonder why you are making a desktop app instead of the web app. It is really a brave decision.

Wow! It seems this thing will help my team work more efficiently. Will I have problems switching from Miro & Trello?

Allo has made this past year a lot easier with my 100% team. Thank you @edward_park_ and @raymond_hong

Fun to work with Ray on the brand new ALLO app logo - wishing you and the team good health and every success you deserve

This is wonderful!

Congrats Ray!

Super cool! This seems extremely useful for educational aspects. I also love the name change :)

Looks like a great product! Particularly love the calendar view design.

Interface looks amazing. Congrats on the launch!

This is a game changer! Even with a very small team, we need to juggle tens of tools to achieve what Allo provides in a single space. Congrats on the launch, will definitely sign up for a trial!

Hey @raymond_hong, kudos for the rebranding! Good job! I'm wondering, is redirecting hunters from PH to downloading the desktop app is in line with reaching setup moment? Or is it more like an anchor - the user is more likely to reach an AHA moment and develop the habit within the app, not in the web? I'm just curious :) Good job out there!

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