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Matter 2.0 — Build stronger, happier remote team culture
Recognize your team members with Kudos, gather continuous feedback, and so much more. Matter for Teams include unlimited seats, Slack integration, and Feedback Ritual.
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@adityavsc It sure is! If you run into any trouble, just let me know - brett @ matterapp.com
@adityavsc Absolutely! Once you integrate your Slack workspace with Matter, you'll be able to select or create a new channel for kudos!
@adityavsc Kudos 🤝 Slack — a start of a great friendship. If you need any support, be sure to email us at hello@matterapp.com!
Hey there PH! 🥳
Today is the day! We’re releasing Matter for Teams! Now, you can use Matter with your ENTIRE team by creating a workspace! From there, your team has unlimited access to Kudos, Slack integration, and more!
Matter for teams is available today and includes:
👏 Kudos: Giving public praises made easy with three fun templates for every occasion. Available for all workspaces.
🤩 Feedback Rituals: Add feedback to your weekly ritual. Start a weekly habit of sharing public praises and feedback with your team.
⚡️ Slack Integration: From sharing public praise to continuous feedback, do everything and more all inside Slack.
On behalf of the Matter team, I’d like to thank the Product Hunt community for all the support and feedback you’ve given us. We wouldn’t be where we are today without your support every step of the way!
We're all ears, so don’t forget to leave any questions or feedback down below!
Brett
Founder, Matter
@bretthellman Well done! We had an internal version at my previous company and was really nice. They did a monthly prize for the top three receivers of praise and a prize for the person who gave the most praise. The only downside was if you were on a team that didn't interact with the wider business all that much you never got many which could have a detrimental impact on that teams morale, would be nice to solve that.
@bretthellman This looks great. Congrats on the version 2.0. Going to get the whole SaaS Industry team on it :)
@simon_barker1 thank you! We love the monthly prize idea and will likely explore that as an enhancement in the future.
The awards for the team are important for the whole atmosphere. Kudos – ❤️ ! Good luck with a launch team!
@nataliekarakina love to hear how kudos will strengthen and reinforce InAppStory culture, Natalie! Thank you for your support 🌱🌱
@nataliekarakina Honestly, what a great shirt idea: "I ❤️ Kudos." Thank you for your support, Natalie!
Well needed, especially with the current evolution of our work culture. Working remotely while maintaining a sense of unity between team members is essential for the long term success of a company.
@pierre_kraus I could not have said it better myself. Thank you for the comment. It used to be a little easier pre-pandemic. After a meeting, you'd take a colleague for a walk/coffee and hear their feedback on how a meeting could have gone even better. Now, we're all so eager to get off Zoom we no longer have the opportunity to get quick feedback after a meeting.
Matter is perfect for remote teams that embrace the growth-mindset.
@bretthellman Hard to beat the coffee talk that often solves more problems than a whole meeting ahah. Glad that Matter provides a solution to reinforce relationships!
@pierre_kraus Matter’s integration with Slack has been a game changer to get our team to adopt the new ritual of celebrating while working remote is 🔥 🔥
@tai_tran_matter Love it! How many team members do you have (just to have an idea of Matter's impact on your remote culture)?
Interesting product. I think it's easy to get caught in the loop of worrying and constantly chasing deadlines at work, so much so that it's common to neglect the fact that everybody has their own worries and challenges themselves. A kind word or an acknowledgement of effort can always have a positive impact.
@xgrv Could not agree more 🙌 Just sending a quick Kudos to a peer for their hard work can make a world of a difference 😻
@xgrv, @robertgavriles1 I think that declaring and giving a reason why an aspect of a design is good or great in our work ,helps us understand why it's ok to keep it and prevents us from changing it ineffectively. Happy to try Matter!
Good luck for the launch!!! It's seems an amazing tool for request feedback from your team and give them too!
❤️ the idea of the feedback ritual (big sucker for self improvement here :) ) , aside from improving team morale and enhancing culture, it has the huge added benefit of making the preparation of performance reviews much easier :)
Is there an option to also make notes about yourself / other people without them being sent anywhere?
Really like that it is all from Slack, decreases friction and thus makes it easier to create a habit of giving and receiving feedback regularly. :)
@veronica_nesheva Ritual really does make feedbacking a breeze. From Thankful Tuesday to Feedback Friday, make feedback a part of your culture.
Internally at Matter, we use Friday ("Feedback Friday"). I'm often blown away by the huge % of people that participate and the hugely positive impact it has in the company.
Ritual, you'll love it.
@veronica_nesheva You can always send private Kudos via Slack or our web app, Veronica!
I love the idea of sending yourself kudos. Self celebration and introspection is underrated. I am sending this to our product team to add this to our backlog!
@veronica_nesheva Love love the idea of sending yourself Kudos, that's a great idea. Sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader!
Like Tai mentioned, we can definitely bring this to the product team! 🙌
Thanks @bretthellman , @tai_tran_matter , @dixita_limbachia ! I know I should be suggesting problems rather than features, but this is what I was thinking. As you also hinted, the self reflection data could be used in multiple ways
• one could be for self kudos or snippets of reflection points that one can start their day with (helps with motivation and higher focus when it comes to self improvement)
• the other could be more of a log of what you have done/achieved/learned that is easy to organise and search
I have my version of both and am personally finding them very useful.
What a great tool to encourage people to interact more. I think this is essential for a team and helps build the healthy and strong relationships. Great job @bretthellman and team!
@bretthellman @ionut_anisia Thank you! We’re hoping to do our part in building happier work environments!
Seems like a great tool to encourage feedback and build a positive work environment. Will surely save this product to use when our team size grows over 10. All the best makers!!
@bilal_chaglani Thank you for the kind note.
Matter will encourage more feedback and improve your team's culture. During our private beta we found:
- 2.7x: Teams that use Matter receive 2.7x more feedback.
- 7x: Teams that connect to Slack receive 7x more Kudos.
It's also great to hear you are planning to use Matter when your team size grows to over 10. One thing to think about, why wait? Even a team of two would benefit from using Matter - and it's free so why not get started?
@bilal_chaglani We've found that all teams typically benefit from regular recognition. For teams of 2-5, you can always set your weekly Feedback Rituals to every other week or monthly. As your team grows, try updating the cadence to weekly!
@bilal_chaglani 😱 Thank you! Even if you're a team less than 10 you can still use Matter! Definitely check out our Kudos feature to celebrate all the big and small wins!
Love the addition of the new features like Kudos and Rituals! Currently building out our team over here and definitely going to incorporate Matter into a culture. Awesome product y'all and keep it moving.
@lairdep23 Amazing! Feel free to reach out to me directly at brett [AT] matterapp.com if there's anything I can do to help. And if you're able, I'd love to hear your direct product feedback. Thank you!
@lairdep23 Keep us updated, Evan! Can't wait to see how Hallow's culture will grow with Kudos and Rituals! Whenever you're ready to try Pro, let Brett or I know via tai(at)matterapp.com.
I'm obviously biased but I love this product and I'll tell you why: I joined my first startup when I was 14. I found this startup in the YellowPager - yes I'm that old. I also worked at Intuit, Yahoo!, and startups with over $100 million in funding. None of these companies provided me with continuous feedback that helped me grow. If I was lucky, I would receive constructive feedback maybe once or twice a year. If I had Matter back then, it could have been me sitting in that rocketship headed to space this weekend. It's impossible to reach your potential without our regular, amazing feedback. That's where Matter can help you and your team. Please try Matter for Teams, you and your team will love it.
Matter seems like a great tool to manage your team and help boost their morale. I'd definitely recommend this in my office. Love the feature of having feedback rituals along with fun templates for praises. Will give it a try for sure!
Congrats @matter_hq team. You're doing great work and helping people in this new normal of remote/hybrid work. Now how about a promo code? :P
Thanks, @phil_miller1! Matter is free to use, with unlimited seats and unlimited feedbacks. We do have some sweet paid features to upgrade your team's experience coming soon - give it a try, we'd love to hear your feedback!
@matter_hq @phil_miller1 We're doing our best, Phil! Feel free to drop me an email and I'll see what we can do! tai(at)matterapp.com
We use 15 Five at Databricks to collect weekly feedback, public praises, and status updates. I think this kind of system is especially important for remote-first teams because I noticed we started relying on 15 Five more during the height of the pandemic. However I personally think the content/copy and the UI of Matter 2.0 is a lot better, so great job everyone!
@akil_welihandaa Thank you for those kind words, Akila! If you have any feedback for us, we're all ears! 🤗
@akil_welihandaa It's great to hear you and your team take the time to feedback. You're already ahead of so many teams and companies. We hope you'll give Matter a try, I'd love to hear your product feedback. My direct email: brett [at] matterapp.com -- thank you!
Great product for designers! They get a bad rap as being introverted and sensitive. The lack of open discussions can lead to disagreements and disappointments, especially when feedback is both unsolicited and unstructured. This product is ideal for multidisciplinary teams!
@crina_craciun EXACTLY, Crina. I remember one of my first managers asking on my first day how I'd like to receive and give feedback. That was such an aha moment that we all process feedback differently.
Matter truly enables team members of all different learning styles to celebrate and share continuous feedback. Time over time, there are always team members who prefer to process feedback (and recognition) on their own time.
Please report back on your findings after trying Matter with your team!
@crina_craciun Yes!!! You got it, Crina. With Matter, we want folks from any and all industries to use Matter. Feedback is the key to professional and personal development, and that's something we want everyone to experience so they can reach their goals!
Great idea to boost workplace morale! I love the idea of giving public praises to my co-workers on this app and will share this app with all my friends and colleagues. Can't wait to use this one.
appreciation culture is something still undermined by any organization, and it has an invaluable positive effect on companies culture, best of luck and well done
@ghazale_motia Thank you! Positive feedback is just as powerful as constructive feedback.
@ghazale_motia So true, Ghazale. Teams go through rituals like sprint planning and retrospective. Yet we don’t dedicate time to recognize.
Retros are great, but most of the time, they’re still used to figure out areas for improvements and not recognize!
@ghazale_motia You're 100% right! Appreciation culture does tend to get overshadowed in the workplace. With Kudos and Slack Integration, we hope to see more public praises!
Feedback was managed poorly in my previous companies. Having quarterly reviews don't make sense since I already don't remember what I wanted to comment on for a particular person. Excited to be able to give-receive feedback on my own schedule.
@dmitry_saprykin2 We're so happy to have you onboard, Dmitry! Our Slack integration continues to improves with new team-centric features all thanks to your contribution. 🙌
@dmitry_saprykin2 Ahhh so happy to have you on the team! Can't wait to make some Matter magic ✨
@cn__katie for all those still in doubt, here's some research outlining how a leader or teammate taking just a few moments a day can improve your entire team's performance.
Research by Oxford University's Saïd Business School: "Happy workers are 13% more productive"
"'We found that when workers are happier, they work faster by making more calls per hour worked and, importantly, convert more calls to sales,’ said Professor De Neve. The authors state that while the link between happiness and productivity has often been discussed, their study provides the first causal field evidence for this relationship. ‘There has never been such strong evidence,’ said Professor De Neve."
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-1...
The takeaway, dedicate 15m a day to let someone on your team know they are doing a great job. Matter's Ritual feature makes this a breeze: https://matterapp.com/feedback-r...
@cn__katie Absolutely! Team work makes dream work. We believe recognition plays an essential role in every team culture!
@cn__katie Feedback Rituals + Kudos + Slack Integration = Happy and productive teams 🤩
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