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Paul Mit

Beseda - Async video and audio messaging for remote teams

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Instead of meetings, use Beseda to send videos and audios — both transcribed — and have more time for focused work without distractions. Standups, design reviews, reporting bugs, collecting and giving feedback — the sky's the limit for the ways to apply.

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Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
Hey Hunters ✨ I'm Lida, co-founder of Beseda. We’re on a mission to help remote and hybrid teams communicate asynchronously using audio and video messages. The pandemic has changed the culture of corporate communication. Many people spend most of their time on calls. It seems to be very easy to hop on a meeting, so we do it even at an inconvenient time or at a time allotted for focused work. In my previous job, I had to call my CEO at 6 am because of the different time zones just to sync up on tasks. Or I’d get in a meeting with 50 colleagues, where we would all just listen to one talking head, telling about the results of an experiment (often, I happened to be the talking head). It’s not enough, and oftentimes simply not possible to just reduce the number of communications. So we decided to go the other way round and create a service for asynchronous communication. Instead of making calls or writing long texts, you record a video or audio, and your teammates can go through them and answer whenever they want and can. This frees up time for focused work and rest. We’re also planning to make integrations with tools where working communication often takes place: Figma, Github, Miro, and others. The first one in line is the plugin for Figma. We know how hard it is to give feedback on designs via text comments. Our plugin will allow you to leave video and audio comments right in the layout. Beseda is free for now, later we will introduce paid options. We're in the closed beta now and we will give the access gradually to make sure everything works stably. Join our community to build the future of remote work. Together we can make our product suitable for modern teams, and teach each other how to not be just a head in the circle, but a teammate everyone loves to work with. We’re waiting for your feedback in the comments 👇
Evgeniia Mishchenko
@lida_o very user-friendly! You have all the ingredients of being a successful venture 😉
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@evgeniia_mishchenko Thanks! Will do our best ✨
Paul Mit
Hunter
You've got a new message 🔔 Hey everybody, Excited to present this extremely interesting (and very bright) project to our global community. The rapid spread of remote work principles is a powerful trend, so every tool that can improve team interaction and daily communication is of interest. And this is also the case when the product design is an integral part of it, the interfaces look very nice and clean. I can't wait to test the UX. Let's support guys in product development. I am sure that your opinion and ideas will be very useful at this stage. 👋
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@mituhin Pasha, thanks for hunted us! And thank you for all helpful tips that you gave us 💕
Dmitry Zhuravlev
The most actual tool in hard pandemic time!
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@new_user_27170cb07b Thanx, Dima! Hope we can help all remote teams adjust to the new world 🙏
Oleksiy Malytskyy
A landing page is dope! I think a team that created a landing page like that will be clean on product design! you got +1 for early access
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@oleksiy_malytskyy Yay, thank you!
Dmitry Samokhodkin
Congrats! Useful product in perspective market. Сurrent communications tools are outdated, asynchronous communications are new kings Great UX/UI, get a lot of pleasure
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@dmitry_samokhodkin1 Thanks, Dima! The future is already here 🪐
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@dmitry_samokhodkin1 Thank you, Dmitry! We hope that we can make a difference 🪁
Sofya Narbut
This is awesome, fell in love with it from the moment I saw the landing page and it met me with the "end meeting for all" button :)
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@sofya_narbut Yeah, we counted on such a reaction! Thanks, Sonya ✨
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Brilliant project
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@pashebor Thanx! You need to try it 🙂
Alexey Shashkov
Looking good! Good job, guys. 💪🙂🙌 Why is this better than Slack or Telegram for the same tasks? In transcribing, right? I can use familiar Slack or Telegram for sending asynchronous videos and audios. What if Slack will add transcribing too?
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@shashcoffe Hi, Alexey! Thank you for your comment. We are creating a more smooth user experience for visual communication. Slack doesn’t have video or audio messages right now, only if you use Loom to do it. Telegram is good but doesn’t have transcription, which makes audio and videos messages not so useful. And it doesn’t have screen recording also. We hope to combine all great solutions for async communication in our tool. Become our early user and help us to do it.
Alexey Shashkov
@ilya_kuleshov Hey Ilya, thanks for this cool answer. I hope you will grow very fast. And thanks for inviting me in your early users)
Denis Danilov
Great respect for such a good landing page. You have won my heart💘
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@danilov_den Thanks, Denis! We will keep it safe 💝
Анна Радзиевская
Wow thats's great tool! I'll definitely use it 🦄
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@radzievskaya Thanx, Anya! Looking forward to see you in our product 🌱
Владимир Зимин
Hey guys! Your product looks great. I want to try it :-)
Vadim Orlov
I love your light green color!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@vadim_orlov Thanks, Vadim! We hope you'll love the product, too 😉
Sasha Briu
Video is future of communication ! Congrats!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@tasha_dziatkovskaya Thanks, Tasha! We think so, too 🤘
Buford Taylor
How does this compare to Loom?
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@_buf, thank you for this question. We will allow users not only to record video but discuss it in the same format. And you won’t need to share your video to other messengers. Our users can communicate in a familiar chat format inside Beseda.
Maëla Daugan
An amazing project! It's a great idea that revolutionises communication tools.
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@maela_daugan Thanx! We hope so ☺️
Axel Hugo
Great idea for today's problem!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@axelhugoo We hope so! Thank you :)
Deepak Yadav
Just signed up for early access. ⚡️ Finally a product that's adaptive to todays communication need. Congratulations to product designers, founders and the entire team for creating such a beautiful product concept. Sneak peak on product looks really exciting and promising on website. I would love to be a part of this wonderful journey. I tried joining slack link but its asking for corporate beside ID. I am looking forward to a the product. Let me know how do I connect with team as a early stage user and to provide feedback on Product. Again, Congratulations and best of luck to the entire team. 🔥
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@worklab Thanks, really appreciate it! About Slack link — our bad, used the wrong link. Already fixed, would love to see you there (you can click again on the button at the bottom of the page)
Bulbuli Akter
Good
Elsa Hoffmann
I’m amazed. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Great idea that allows sharing product updates without infinite amount of meetings for the whole team. Nice design, it’s very telling of founder’s design background. Good luck, guys!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@elsa_hoffmann Thank you, Elsa! It's nice that you like design - we really want people to enjoy using our product 🤘
Ana Bibikova
Wait, what?! No more annoying switching between Slack, Loom, and Zoom? 🔥 This is great!
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@anab, totally agree! Thanx!