👋 Hey Product Hunt, great to to re-meet you! And thank you @chrismessina for the hunt! ❤️ When we launched Remotion 1.0 on Product Hunt, it was a tool for remote productivity. We'd only tested with ~10 teams and we were nervous about not being ready. But the Product Hunt community was amazing: your thoughtful feedback helped us build conviction with investors, and we ended up raising $13MM. It wouldn't have happened without you. Thank you! 🤔 However, we also needed to adjust: people don't love Remotion because it makes them more "productive." Instead... People love Remotion because it helps them feel like they're together. Remotion 2.0 does this in two ways: 1. Feeling the presence of your team 👯 Ambient awareness of your team by giving them a home on your screen 🤩 Bringing teammates to life with live selfies (instead of green dots) 2. Making room for more than work 🎵 Music rooms for chatting or coworking 🎉 Emoji badges that plant the seeds for cultural rituals 🤙 Quick calls that make dropping by feel natural 🧑‍💻 We're building for a hybrid future. Whenever we design a feature, we ask ourselves: "Would this help people feel connected, both remote and in-office?" 😸 We're temporarily limiting access so that we can provide a great experience. However, as a thank you to this community, if you're on macOS you can skip straight to booking an onboarding call by going to remotion.com and using the code "MEOW_MACOS" in our survey. 🗣 We'll be hanging out in the comments section starting at 9 am EST, and would love to hear what you think. WE SHIPPED LIVE SELFIES IN A WEEK after @chrismessina suggested it, and we'd love to bring your ideas to life too! On behalf of the whole Remotion team, thank you!

Remotion is genuinely one of the most-used products on our team. I thought it would be an add-on to Slack, but it's actually replaced Slack in a lot of ways. It's helped our remote team communicate more openly and quickly in a totally organic way.

While there are plenty of other solutions for conferencing and video-conferencing for remote teams, Remotion really brings back the feeling of an office to your desk away from the office. At a glance you can see the status of everyone, with my personal favorite - automated status updates when they have an ongoing event on their Google Calendar. Also, when 2 of your colleagues are in a conference on Remotion, this is shown on their avatars so you know they're busy (or ask to join their conversation on an impromptu 3-way conference) If your colleague just did something really cool, you can celebrate them by sending them an emoji, which they will get a subtle, but clear notification on - also from whom it came. It's also a great `I'm open for chat` pointer. Another thing that I love about Remotion is the colored 4-status system that they have: apart from online and offline, you can also set yourself as `Concentrating` when you're working on something where you need a lot of concentration for an extended period, or `Open to talk` - which will pop a notification up to your team members that you're available for random chats. A couple of months ago, we got access to the Remotion rooms beta for a couple months now and are loving it! When someone is in a room, that’s a good signal that they’re not concentrating hard enough at the moment that they would mind an interruption, so don’t be afraid to pop into the room and say hi to them. Just like you would in a normal office really, just more open, since in an office you can’t **not** be in a room. What I find very interesting in rooms is the audio feature they have - for each room, you can assign a youtube music video / playlist, which will continue playing in the room whether you stay there or not (we love putting some random music for concentration video up and then going into the room from time to time to check what music it’s playing right now). It’s a small thing, but for me it’s a special connection knowing that other people listen to the same sounds I’m listening to! Remotion is never in your face, with notifications that are subtle, but clear, even for calls, and makes it very easy to keep an overview of your team, while making it really easy to get rid of it, when it's in your way (e.g. you have a conference with a customer). I think, at the end of the day, the thing I love most about Remotion is that it's a tool that's used by a team that's developing it. It has all those small details of when you think about "Hmm, this is something I would have loved this tool to have", it turns out that it's already there. My remote team loves it ❤️ and I fully recommend your team gives it a try as well 👍

We have been using Remotion for a few months and it's a game-changer for our hybrid team. The perfect tool to quickly connect with my team, I love the daily selfie feature and being able to actually see everyone's faces!

Just love the product, we're using Remotion everyday for 3 months now, it's simply a must have. Awesome design, awesome experience 😁 Congratz on the launch @embirico & Remotion team ! 🙌

Since my team went remote in April last year, we switched to Slack and Zoom and conversation really went down between us. It was sad. Once we started using Remotion, conversation started snowballing massively. It was not just me—the whole team says the same and we love it. The Remotion team also listens closely to feedback: They made some changes to the dock that we didn’t like a few months ago. We got on a feedback call and they fixed them quickly! (Thanks for reading my English—we’re actually using Remotion from Japan!)

We use it every 👏Single 👏Day 👏 All 👏 Day. We’re an early stage startup, fully remote. Remotion helped us grow the team 3->10. Our biggest ask is a missed calls feature since we rely on Remotion to communicate internally.

We tried Remotion 1.0 (very early version) and it didn't stick, but this looks so much better! I love the ability to share audio and much faster/cleaner experience. So far one of the best takes on the virtual office! Do you plan to add any kind of chat/async way of communication? Or do you see it more as something to be used in parallel with Slack?

We have been using Remotion since Nov'20. Mostly I use it with my teammates in the same timezone, and thanks to Remotion we don't waste time for checking calendars or sending an invite. It's super easy-to-use. Also, all this time the Remotion team has been quite responsive to my feedback.

I was immediately in love with Remotion. It stands out from all the competitors out there. It’s so beautiful and so easy to use. This application will change your work life forever.

So excited to try this new product out! Seems like such a great tool for my small business :)

Remotion is the best! Really easy to use, seamless connection with the team—love it.

Remotion has been so easy and fun to use, love the new updates as well!

Looking forward to trying this out. We are a hybrid team so this looks like it will be useful. Does it have some basic chat (text) capability?

Remotion is a fantastic product and has become our default video chat tool for work (and fun!). It handles team presence super well and makes hoping into a call supremely fast and easy. At first we used it just for active collaboration and kept using Zoom for "just chatting" calls, but we eventually swapped over to Remotion for all calls because it's just so easy to use. The "daily selfie" feature seems mostly just fun and novel at first, until you realize that for fully remote teams the daily photo is a great way to feel connected to your teammates – seeing their selfie makes it feel almost as if they're "at their desk" (without all the downside of actually being at a desk in an office). We're a very heavily async team, but the "shoulder tap" style quick video calls are a very effective way for us to clarify complex issues quickly, brainstorm on hard problems that require the creativity that synchronous communication offers, or get some team connection when we want it. Nice work @embirico & team! Keep it up!!

These design updates are 🔥🔥🔥

Looks awesome! Love the quick calls..don’t need to commit to a full meeting to speak with my team. Can’t wait to try it!

We use remotion at my company (bit.io ) and love it. We're fully remote and use remotion to simulate the in-office experience of leaning over and just asking your colleague a question. We setup a policy of "if someone is green on remotion you should feel 100% free to click on them and start chatting" - zero friction. The team uses this all time, and it's a big part of why remote work works for us. Highlight recommended!

?makers Any timeline for Windows support? Our virtual office is a hybrid of macOS and Windows 10.

We're a small startup and use Remotion for all our video calls. Love how much more lightweight it feels to hop on and have a quick conversation vs using Zoom or Meet to have a "meeting". It's also nice to see when my co-founder is available, since we sometimes span different time zones. Keep it up!