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Current — Share work-in-progress & get weekly AI powered summaries
Current increases your team’s visibility on the work happening across the company. Designers, Engineers, and PMs can share work from Figma, Loom, Miro, Notion, Drive, Github, and more. Weekly AI-powered summaries keep the whole team aligned and informed.
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Wanted to also throw a big shoutout to @lea_schwegler who completely revamped our brand in under 2 weeks! 🙌. Our goal was to stand out from the popular aesthetic many startups are going for these days...how do you think we did? 😅
I have been using Current for a while now, and I am consistently thrilled to see the incredible work being done by everyone in my team. The ability to gain visibility into the projects and tasks of my fellow colleagues has significantly boosted our team spirit, making collaboration a more enjoyable and rewarding experience.
Feeling incredibly grateful to be a part of this team and to witness the journey of our product!
Hey folks! I'm Scott, one of the cofounders of Current 👋
Since January 2022, we've been in a private beta, developing Current to help product-led teams increase visibility and alignment on the work happening across their company. Our team consists of people from places like Coinbase, Meta, Shopify, InVision, Coursera, and more. Whether the companies were small, medium, or large, we each experienced the same issues:
Duplicate efforts: ICs from Team A and Team B work on similar problems without realizing it, missing out on opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge.
Lack of work visibility for leadership: Heads of department, VPs, and Execs don’t know where to find the latest work. To address this, middle management spend hours each week creating time-consuming reports by gathering links, images, and summaries from the team.
Limited insight for other roles: Sales, Support, and other departments only see the product when it's about to be released. They totally miss out on opportunities to use any knowledge of how the product is currently evolving in their interactions with existing or potential customers.
This year more than ever it’s important for teams to have extremely high output and not waste time with processes around the actual work. We believe the most high-performing teams have an open and collaborative culture where ideas are shared early and often— and we’ve built Current to facilitate this:
One feed to view updates from dozens of tools: Share and view work from various tools like Figma, Loom, Notion, Miro, Mural, Google Drive, Github, Codepen, Codesandbox, Protopie, Rive, and Spline. Our integrations let you do things like post directly from Figma or Figjam using our plugin or automatically post to Current when pull requests in Github are merged. All posts are categorized into specific work-streams which can be followed to get a higher signal feed. No more getting lost in Figma files, trying to find links in Slack, or hunting through old emails.
Slack Integration: Broadcast posts to various channels so cross-functional partners are looped in, set up reminders to facilitate rituals around sharing updates, and get notifications for important activity on Current. We plan on adding support for Teams and other chat tools soon.
AI-powered weekly summaries: Current automatically generates weekly summaries from the posts that were shared throughout the week. No need to spend time crafting lengthy update emails—everyone is automatically notified when the new weekly summary is ready. Watch video
We’re super excited to celebrate tearing off our beta badge today by launching on Product Hunt! Our product will remain free until 2024, so we hope you try it out! 🙏 Special thanks for @chrismessina for hunt 🙌
We’ll be hanging out in the comments for any questions or feedback—would love to hear from you! 👇
Current is a great way to share in-flight work with your whole team. The Slack integrations, Weekly Drops, and work Streams make Current a powerful tool for getting on the same page.
Great idea, guys, congrats! I was exited by your product description and even decided to try it for my team, however, I realised that it mostly fits the need of bigger teams. I only have around 10 people for now, and I don't think Current's gonna help me a lot with our working processes, am I right? Are you building your product for bigger companies, or does it make sense to try it in small startups?
@nikita_naumov Appreciate the feedback, thank you! 🙏
While our product was initially designed for larger teams, we're always working on improving it and better serving smaller teams like yours too. We're here to support you and your team, and make the experience as beneficial as possible, so please feel free to share any specific needs or questions you might have (here or over email, whatever works best). We're all about continuous improvement!
@nikita_naumov Thanks @nikita_naumov ! There are actually a handful of a similar sized teams using our product today. While some of the pains don't exist at your size yet, teammates still benefit from having a single place to see ideas being worked on and being able to easily find links to work that was shared. One cool story we've heard a few times is after using the product for a few months, when someone new joins the team, they can go on Current and find all the work and ideas that were created for certain topics.
Curious to know if there's more features targeted towards smaller teams you’re specifically looking for?
My team and I have been using Current for a few months and it’s been really useful. At first we were unsure but with the slack integrations and everyone contributing, the alignment and communication it brings across the team is great and will be hard to imagine not having it.
We love going over the last week and months to review and retro on all the work.
Keep up the great work!
We are really keen to have a role which isn’t a contributor for team members who aren’t designers (devs, prod mng, stakeholders)
@benjieboo This is so great to hear, thanks for sharing how y'all are using it! We are planning to add a viewer role, which would only be able to add reactions and comments. Would that address the issue you're facing?
Congrats! Current looks like an amazing product. Can't wait to see how it helps teams stay aligned and informed.
This resonates a lot. People spend SO much time working to prove that they're...working.
Love how this is looking and excited to give it a try. Congrats @scottsavarie & team!
@scott_hanford Exactly! All the work around the actual work. We want to help teams eliminate that and focus on the stuff that matters. Thanks for checking out Current!
Actually cool SaaS that fills a need I've had weekly that can lead to unnecessary friction in teams. Nice! Can't wait to try.
@alfred_malmros Appreciate it Alfred! Let us know what you think after you've had a chance to try it out
I wish this had an integration with Milanote. It's a niche software but it's amazing for whiteboard / brainstorming and documenting. I use it for 5+ different projects professional and personal.
@andreas_lopez1 Thanks for the feedback! Curious if you could expand how you'd like that integration to work? Would you want to embed Milanote boards in Current?
@rana_phool Thanks for taking a look Rana! Would love to hear your feedback if you have a chance to try it out 🙌
@rana_phool Thanks for the kind words! Give it a spin and let us know what you think!
The AI newsletter is such a nice touch, consumable information for people in the company who might not have time to keep up with the changes, or have been on annual leave. Looking forward to following along with this one!
@peeeteh Thanks Pete! Would love to hear any more feedback you have once you've given it a go!
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