Cosmos Video 2.0 — Everything you like about going to the office, from home

Love it, I personally have not seen anything quite like it. Congratulations and all the best, on a different day you would have been product #1 of the day - This is an amazing product.

Hey ProductHunt 👋! We’re @karan_baweja1 and @rahul_goyal, co-founders of Cosmos Video. 🧑‍🦲👳‍♂️ Our history We’ve known each other for 14 years. Before Cosmos, we went to engineering school together, attended business school together, lived together, and built and sold our first startup together. Cosmos is our second startup. 🤗 Why we started Before the pandemic, we were leading product teams at Citymapper and Wise in London. We used to love going to a physical office - it allowed our teams to build culture, communicate fast and share context. Sharing a space with our teams meant bumping into each other, which led to casual conversations and created a sense of belonging. We missed this way of working, and wanted to create a product that captured the benefits of being in an office, while working remotely. Last September, we set about building virtual spaces that replicate physical offices by combining video chat with a Minecraft like game. 🙀🥳 The journey so far We hadn’t realised the difficult task we had signed up for - you only realize these things with hindsight. When we started, we had no idea how game development works. We learnt from scratch what sprites meant and how the virtual world was created, what WebRTC is and how complex building video tech is. A year since starting our journey, and after a lot of perseverance, we’ve built something that we feel works and can be showcased to the world. 😜 What you’re all thinking There are products similar to us in the market such as Teamflow, Gather Town, Mibo etc. We think everyone is trying to figure out the right UX and feature set. While there are undeniable similarities, each company has their own take on the user experience and features due to their own experiences with their respective user base. Our focus throughout has been on delivering the best virtual HQ experience out there. 💡 How to introduce Cosmos to your team? 1. Have regular meetings (such as standups) on Cosmos, after which the team naturally breaks into smaller groups to discuss.
 You can use whiteboards and apps integrated within Cosmos such as Google docs, sheets, Figma, Miro etc. 2. Socialise during happy hours or lunches - Cosmos is perfect for doing socials. Your team can move around, naturally break into groups and move in and out of different conversations. Cosmos has 20+ games (1-player, 2-player and multiplayer) - Pong, Gartic phone, Jigsaw, and Who said it best are some of our favourites. 3. Virtual HQ, all day every day - Sit with your team on a shared desk, hold meetings in meeting rooms, walk up to others to ask a question or casual chit chat. 🎉 Cosmos is free for teams of 10, and for larger teams, the first month is free. Cosmos supports upto 150 people in an office, and meetings can have upto 35 people. Thanks so much for checking us out, we’d love to hang out with you! We have set up a special space for product hunters, come talk to us here.

I tried out the Cosmos demo and like the vibe! It may actually make an impact on team culture. Will introduce to my team and share more feedback later.

Can you built a Cosmos social network too?? It'd be sooo cool!

This is great. You really figured out a way to bring the space back into remote work and the unexpected bumping into others you don't necessarily work with everyday. This is great for larger startups/scaleups with a few 100 employees. Great work!

Our team really love using Cosmos, as half are working remotely overseas and half are local employees. Working from home is still the default for Singapore and it really helps us bond and have fun together through the games. We also feel like we are back in our office as we can have quick huddles any time just being in Cosmos. Things get done much faster. Thank you for making such a great product as we often grow frustrated and lonely while working from home, but not anymore!

This is such a cool and fun twist on remote working! Very innovative for making everyone feel like part of a workplace community 😃

Amazing product! Our accelerator used it for weekly founder catch-ups - was so fun over dry zoom, it puts real meet in the meetings :) ..Good luck Cosmos team!

Cosmos has been a great add to our partner stack for virtual meeting solutions. My team uses it daily at Lunchpool and has started offering it to our customers - we're in our cosmos space like a real office. With the added flexibility allowed by remote working, it brings engagement that no other platform has been able to nail down. BC of their games and a few other features, the adoption on my team and those we are selling it to has been very strong.

Our whole (7) has been using Cosmos for the last few months after we decided to really invest in a remote first culture. It's been amazing. Everyone has enjoyed being in the space and it's given us a greater sense of 'togetherness' for our remote team. We even bring customers into our office for meetings sometimes and they love it too. Rahul and the team have been super responsive about listening to our feedback and are currently building us a custom designed office! We look forward to continuing to use Cosmos and see where it goes next. Keep up the good work team! 🚀

Puts a smile on my face every time I log into Cosmos to start my day. What other product can do that?

I have tried it before, so very excited with all the improvements you brought in with 2.0 Good work @karan_baweja1 and @rahul_goyal

The avatars and world looks more 3d than some of the competition I have tried.. How much would cosmos cost?

Cosmos will give you that fulfillment feeling being at your own virtual office head quarters once again with all your office mates from anywhere remotely. Testvox, a team of 40 have been using Cosmos from the last couple of months

This looks cool, tried the demo. Curious about the press ‘x’ on different tables to open apps, can I open anything in it?

Checked Cosmos today for a team lunch -- we really enjoyed the experience and the idea of us being able to play the games is amazing. Had lots of fun. We discussed it within the team (we have only four people) and decided to give it a try for the stand-ups and other meetings as well. The whiteboard app is exactly what we lack in Zoom.

This product is great for giving our remote team a sense of an office environment. One question, how do we play some music we can all listen to? I see you advertise it above, but for us the spotify integration is limited to seeing the track that is playing... Also, status messages would be a welcome addition.

Our fully remote team at Landscape have been using Cosmos throughout 2021 and it's great for one-off meetings, open office sessions or even team socials. Congrats on v2.0 team!!!

We used this product very early in alpha and beta for different events at different scale and we loved it. The 8bit style is super intuitive and lovable and the team worked on amazing features and is in with all their hearts. It is made with love and all users felt that and gave some love back. :)

Amazing product! 🤩 I love using Cosmos! 💕 not only at work but also for socials. Congrats Cosmos team!