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Commons - Private Discord for your team to collaborate

Commons is a voice-first communication platform that recreates an office-like environment. It’s super easy to use: Login with Slack. Tap to talk. See the team on 1 screen. Record, transcribe, and assign action items.

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Patrick Burns
🤙 Hello! We’re excited to launch Commons, your private Clubhouse where your co-workers collaborate and connect. Remember what it was like to talk to your teammates without having to schedule a meeting? These ‘tap on the shoulder chats’ are how we solve problems, share ideas, and connect. Unfortunately, this is nearly impossible for distributed teams. Hence we all have Zoom fatigue. 😕 This is why we built Commons. 🚀 Today, 100s of teams from from small startups to large enterprises use Commons to: ✅ Answer quick Qs that require a brief chat ✅ Host daily stand-ups and post-meeting ‘parking lot’ convos ✅ Coordinate for launch days ✅ Drop-in for water-cooler chats How is Commons different from what you’re doing now? 🔉 Talking is 7-10X faster than typing ⏳ Short n sweet, with most convos less than 4 mins (v. 30 min cal blocks) 🚫 We all have Zoom fatigue. Audio has less friction than video. Here’s how it works 1. Login with Slack 2. Install our Slack app 3. Invite your team 4. Tap to talk 5. Share your screen, create a room, share notes, and more. 🎉 Special deal for Product Hunters: Get 3 months free (~$200+ value)! Sign up now -- offer only available this week. Our mission is to make work feel more connected. We're a product-focused team that has previously worked on social and enterprise collaboration at Snap, Microsoft, and Google. Thanks for the support and we invite you to join us in helping make work feel more connected.
Fabrizio Caracausi
@pattyjburns this is awesome team! congratulations 👏
Shabih Rizvi
@pattyjburns It's been so neat to see how the product has evolved over the past year. Love how simple it is for any team to get started with this and the little, but thoughtful nuances, that make it so seamless to use! Reminds me of a modern walkie-talkie 👏
Patrick Burns
@shabihr 🔊 Yes, it's like a walkie-talkie for your remote office!
Tyler Swartz
@pattyjburns This looks super helpful in improving how we stay connected without adding more meetings the calendar. Do you offer the ability to record the call for those that missed it?
Patrick Burns
@bochkovaleks thank you!
Ahmet Kara
Great place to work remotely, don't loose the connectivity with your colleagues.
Patrick Burns
@ahmkara thank you! You were a super early user and gave great feedback! Appreciate it :))
Ken Moo
Love that it integrats with Slack so teams can collaborate much easier. (please consider Discord too). Anw I couldn't find a pricing plan on your site. Do you have a free plan?
Patrick Burns
@ken_moo thank you! We’re offering a 3-month free trial for the Product Hunt community. Our pricing starts at $10/user/month, depending on number of users and features.
Jason Yeh
Pretty cool how much a difference it makes to remove the friction of starting a conversation and to remove the gravity of an audio call Killer use case is simoly working on something with other people and only speaking here and there. Subtle but huge
Patrick Burns
@jayyeh thank you! Your product and fundraising feedback along the way was HUGE!
Malik KARATAŞ
good product! easy to use :)
Patrick Burns
@malik_karatas glad you enjoy! Let us know what we can do to make it better for you!
Shubham Gupta
Awesome product! Way to go!! :)
Patrick Burns
@new_user_20359e1c1d thank you Shubham! Appreciate your feedback :))
Mustafa Tandogan
Using Commons since first beta days and we love it! That provides much more than just team meeting such as audio-first culture without zoom fatigue and easy to sync while remote working
Patrick Burns
@mustafatandogan thank you for your ongoing feedback!
koray yaman
it feels so smooth, very good product congrats
Patrick Burns
@koridesu thank you!
Ahmet Sozeri
Nice, useful application :)
Patrick Burns
@sozeri_ahmet thanks for the feedback!
Bartu Doruk Demirkıran
Super interested in this product. As a remote worker for 3 years, I understand that the communication is a key topic. I will advise this product to my company as well.
Patrick Burns
@xbartu 🙏
Timmu Tõke
Love it!
Patrick Burns
@timmu_toke 🙏.. Really appreciate your early product feedback!
Aman Manik
I can see this helpful for internal marketing at companies: - org changes - strategy updates - office hours Audio makes us more liberated to setup as we want and tune in!
Patrick Burns
@amanik yes, those are definitely some key use cases! The more common (no pun) are questions/problems that come throughout the day that’s better discussed verbally but also not formal enough to schedule a call for.
Salih Can Egin
Tremendous idea, loved it !
Patrick Burns
@vincanity111 thank you!
Samed Şahin
i'm just in and liked it already! it's really well-designed, brilliantly simple and smooth. i'll introduce this to my colleagues. they've already transformed into zoom-bies during lockdown, hope this helps lol
Patrick Burns
@smdshn Awesome! Yes, Zoom fatigue is real! Zoombies lol. Zoom is an amazing product but no somewhere I want to spend my entire day
Michelle Mullins
This looks amazing! I can't wait to try it out with my remote working friends and colleagues :) Thank you for making this investment and helping make work feel more connected. Love the HEART behind it all. It's going to make a wonderful positive impact.
Patrick Burns
@michelle_mullins thank you! Yes, our mission is very ambitious: to make work feel more connected. Step one is enabling teams to communicate in the most natural and efficient way. Can't wait to help your team connect and collaborate!
Andrew Keats
Looks really interesting, might consider trying it out with my teammates!
Patrick Burns
@andrew_keats Great! Can't wait to hear what you all think!
Trey Sisson
Commons has made such a huge difference for our remote team. We've tried a bunch of different products that make "informal chats" more seamless and Commons is the first one we've come across that feels natural and net-positive, not forced. Audio is often > text, so we're huge fans over here.
Patrick Burns
@treysisson 🔑🔑 Yes, talking is 7-10X faster than typing! Thanks a ton for your early feedback!
Stacy Cieslak
wow cool. Congrats!
Patrick Burns
@stacy_cieslak thank you!
Fatih Kadir Akın
Brilliant idea! For the teams who are not using Discord but Slack and want a voice room! 🥰
Patrick Burns
@fkadev exactly! 🎯
Matthew Bunday
Commons is a really great solution for teams on Slack that want a really fast way to do break-out meetings and ad-hoc conversations. It has a super intuitive interface and captures the ability to easily meet in small teams after standup.
Patrick Burns
@zencephalon Thank you! Your product feedback has been super helpful, especially coming from a fellow founder :).