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Lida Ovchinnikova

Beseda Share - Async audio & video discussions – right from your browser

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One topic, no meetings. Create a discussion right from your browser and invite anyone with a link. Collaborate with audio, video, and text and close out the discussion with a conclusion when it’s done. Discuss with your team, users, clients, or contractors.

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Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! Collaborating remotely can mean a lot of meetings and endless chat threads. It’s easy to lose track of what was agreed on or spend endless time scrolling to find what you’re looking for. How much productivity are you missing out on by filling your calendar with meetings? We experienced this for years – we spent countless hours in meetings and chats trying to agree on something, only to end up feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. (Zoom fatigue, anyone?) We knew there had to be a better way to work. So we launched an asynchronous chat app with audio and video messaging six months ago. Since then, more than 60 teams have tested it and we’ve collected a vast amount of feedback. What became clear was that async collaboration needed to be easily integrated into the team’s current process. We created this in-browser version to do just that – make it incredibly easy to join a discussion by just clicking a shared link. In this version, you can discuss a specific topic in one place instead of blowing up the team’s chat or holding an unnecessary meeting. Start a discussion in your browser, share the link with anyone (inside or outside your team), collaborate with audio/video/text messages, and close out the discussion with a conclusion when you’re done. Stop sending calendar links and booking yourself solid – share a link to an async discussion instead. Beseda Shared is free for everyone, starting today. Please share your feedback in an open discussion with us (https://beta.beseda.chat/share/6...) and join our Slack community to help us build the future of work. ✌🏻
Sanveer Singh Osahan
Congratulations @lida_o and team. This might be a good alternative to slack. Is this planned to be? I sometimes find it difficult to have work related conversations on slack. Are you planning to integrate it with other messaging apps?
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@sanveer_osahan Hey, Sanveer! Thanks for your support ❤️ Speaking about integration — yes, we plan to integrate with other messaging apps, to make it easy to create async discussion right from there and be notified about new messages
Manveer Singh Rayat
Really great idea team. Just tried the product, the transcribing the conversations is a very useful feature. Do you have any plan for slack integration and Jira integration. I can already see this can be a very useful feature for conversations between QA and Dev teams.
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@manveer94 Thanks, Manveer! Yes, we have plans to integrate with Slack. About Jira integration — can you elaborate on how can you see it and how can it be useful for you?
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@manveer94 right now we can connect Slack and Beseda using IFTTT. So that's how we've set up reminders for async standups for our team.
Manveer Singh Rayat
@lida_o For bug tracking. The discussions between the teams can be documented and can be helpful for other teams to understand and fix those.
Sofya Narbut
Been following you guys since the first launch, good luck with this one! The product looks pretty nice :)
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@sofya_narbut thanx, Sofya 🤍
Anu Varila
This is something we could really use! Congrats on the launch!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@anu_varila thanks! We hope you enjoy using Beseda 🤘
Anastasiia Holiachenko 🇺🇦
Hi! I have tried your product, and it is so cool! It is simple and useful at the same time. Just what I needed for quick discussions with 2+ people. It's like Google Meet, but without an actual meeting :) The website and video are so good! Are you planning to add the ability to assign several admins in live chat? Is there a possibility for the invited user to join the chat immediately without signing in with Google/any other social media platform? Also, some interactivities could be a good fit for this chat, e.g., votings, reactions, etc. What next features do you have on your roadmap?
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@anastasiia_holiachenko Hi! Yeh, we have lots of plans. So I'll send an email with our roadmap shortly, WIP. We will add reactions, replies, comments, and some features for more comfortable team collaboration (something like groups). Desktop and mobile apps are also coming. The current version is just the first step for us.
Connor Jewiss
This seems great, incredibly useful for async teams or discussions. So many potential usecases. Congrats on the launch!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@connorjewiss thanx, Connor! 🤘
Alexey Shashkov
What a brilliant tool!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@shashcoffe thanks!
Denis Vorontsov
Great idea!
Matteo Aliotta
Nice one! Async is the future 💪
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@matteoaliotta1 Thanks! We think so, too 🙂
Silvi Hambardzumyan
This seems great tool to me, especially big teams might use it. Can we somehow save the discussions or they are being deleted?
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@silvi_hambardzumian all discussions save in your account. You can close them, leave or delete manually
Konstantine Shirshov
?makers Hello again! Glad to see you back with a public launch 😎 Is the .mp4 video export feature ready? I've been missing it so much!
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@shirshov I've made the instruction especially for you here → https://beta.beseda.chat/share/6...
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
Galia
This looks so easy to use and convenient I bet it'll save a lot of time on endless discussions by using the quick voice/video msgs form. Congrats on the launch
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@galia1999 Thanks, Galia! Hope it will!
Paul Mit
Super useful approach — split communication and make it asynchronous. By the way, that it can be useful not only in the world of products and digital projects, but can have a more global application in the consumer world. Lot's of use cases from the offline life :)
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@mituhin Thank you for those words, Paul!
Said
great tool 👌👌
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@sbadaoui thanx!
Gleb Putintsev
Such a great idea of async communications! Can't wait to see how you will evolve it. I would like to mention transcription feature - I prefer texts over video/voice messages and this is a rescue!
Ilya Kuleshov
Maker
@gleb_putintsev1 great idea. We have this feature on the roadmap 👌🏻
Sandra Djajic
Almost like little bubbles for conversation about specific conversation, self-contained and easy to track given that there are usually so many events, projects, ideas, and meetings taking place all at once.
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@maxine_buchert Thanks ❤️
Vadim Khamzin
Awesome tool! 👍 Waiting for the new updates
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@cyberlancer Thanks, Vadim! Stay tuned 🙂
Sarthak Solanki
The product looks good, good work guys!
Lida Ovchinnikova
Maker
@sarthak_solanki thanks, Sarthak!
Sébastien Jalliffier Verne
Great idea, congrats for the launch!
Dan Melnichuk
Maker
@volcomix thank you!