Long time reader, first time poster
Hey everyone,
Great to see so much activity in the PH community. Even though I have been lurking and signed up to receive PH newsletters, I realized I have never interacted with, or introduced myself in the forums!
I'm Abesh, co-founder of That Works. That Works helps make sense of scattered workplace data by connecting to tools that people already use and create insightful summaries of work.
I'm a 2x founder and ex-meta PM. The idea for That Works actually came about in our previous roles at Meta (with my co-founder and I leading large scale technology and ecosystem building initiatives) where we realized we were spending far more time in assimilating and making sense of data strewn across different tools, tasks, meeting notes and chat threads rather than actually focusing on strategy and execution. We dove deep into this problem space and started building and validating some of our core assumption with That Works - and realized that being able to automate things like your Slack channel conversations, CRM activity notes, meeting notes and tasks actually helped our early beta users jump straight into action instead of scrolling notification inboxes for hours.
We are just getting started and planning to launch on PH to get feedback from the community, and ideally flesh out our assumptions based on different work styles, commitments and tooling. I know there are quite a few threads on tips for newbies already (which I'm trawling through as much as I can) - but primarily here to see how I can also contribute and give back to the community - and make our eventual launch a success.
Any very obvious Do's and Dont's I should start with?
@kay_arkain Thanks! That's a great first tip :) Incidentally learned about the forums only recently - so wanted to get a head start in checking out different threads and start making myself useful where possible. All the best for your upcoming launch!
Avoid reaching out to the community just to promote your product launch. Instead, focus on mutual support and trust-building so that people willingly become part of your launch journey.