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Teleport Zen — An interactive moving checklist and guide
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Moving can be so stressful, especially when you're talking about an international move. This is yet another great tool from the Teleport crew that will help guide your process and make your move more seamless.
Thanks so much for hunting our latest release, @chrismessina!
The backstory here is that since starting Teleport we have wanted to solve two sides of the moving equation with software: discovery ("where should I be?") and execution ("how do I get there?"). Since last year, we've been busy with our discovery product, Teleport Cities, and now the time has come to get to actually moving people from A->B. Have to say, I'm just giddy with excitement releasing this next phase! :)
As Chris said, moving from city to city is painful. Teleport Zen gives control over the moving process back to you and removes unnecessary stress. You can use it as free software with a pre-populated todo list and an expert guide to manage every step of your move. Should you get stuck on any task, our network of Teleport Scouts and professional service providers are a click away to help you out.
In a nutshell, Teleport Zen lets you:
* start with a customized, detailed and pre-populated moving task list, for free
* edit and organize tasks in the planning stage of your move, during the actual move, and after, when settling in
* save your personal notes and research results by attaching them to tasks
* track task completion progress towards your move date and other deadlines
* request help from a human Teleport Scout in case you get stuck or prefer to delegate any task
* quickly contact recommended service providers from a curated list to request a quote or order their products to solve any part of your move
Our entire team around the world is standing by to hear your questions and feedback, dear ProductHunt community. Especially if you've recently moved, planning to move soon or have a friend in the process -- please tell us what you think!
BR
Sten
& Team Teleport
@zan2434 I'm glad you like it, Zain. What kind of tasks do you see it being most useful for?
I'm moving (yes, again) in one month and this is a really cool idea. Congrats, @seikatsu & team!
My proposed feature as your typical millenial would be a 5-questions test before getting to the checklist. For example, I don't have a car (thanks, Uber), I don't own a house (ditto, Airbnb), I don't have to learn the local language since the official language is English and I have a job already (thanks, Jobbatical)... Yes, I get the immediate satisfaction of crossing things I don't need, but at first I'm also overwhelmed by the number of things to do.
Looking forward to moving again and trying Zen in a few months time ;)
@madavvero thanks Giulia, super useful feedback.
Few comments:
* we are definitely moving towards more customization, and we actually have a few good sources of trigger data for that: your personal profile (language, passport, job type) and preferences (anything else you've already told us when searching on Teleport Cities apps), destination (for localized service provider links and pro tips), etc
* we currently don't want to push all new Zen users through the Cities search flow (especially as they probably already know where they want to go), so need to find a better way how to integrate the onboardings
* for this release we initially had an intermediary "quiz" to ask users for a few things as you indicate (like "are you moving alone or with family") -- while that would help for checklist template filtering, we decided for a cleaner initial onboarding over multi-field form: just enter the destination and go.
And you're right, by "ticking off a few things immediately" we hope to release some endorphins and make you feel good of the progress at once -- but probably if that becomes ticking off 28 items you don't need every 3 months, the effect will be reversed... :)
We know that PHers 😻 emoji so as an added bonus, all of Teleport Zen's error messages are accompanied by a few so when 💩 happens, there's a friendly face there to soften the blow.
I do hope you never see them, though 😜
It’s no secret I’ve got a bit of a love affair going on with the lovely people at Teleport ;) But even if that wasn’t the case, I’d find Zen a pretty cool addition to the Teleport portfolio (Teleportfolio?).
It comes at just the right time too; We’re planning our first international move (still within the EU, unless brexit…) for Q4/2016. I think Zen will help us loads with that. I especially like the addition of the “ask a local” and “contact a scout” buttons. One thing I hope will be implemented at some point is that I’d like to be able to share my list with my partner.
@thegrumpygirl Teleportfolio!!! 😻
(I just learned today that besides an internal data science tool called Dataport and a stuffed office unicorn called Telecorn we also have a RESTport module in our codebase -- the name just keeps on giving)
Very glad Zen arrived in time for your move, and that the features to request help with any task resonate. And we do have plans for task/checklist sharing on the backlog.
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