👋 Hey there Product Hunt! It's hard to believe that it's been 6 months since we launched Grain 1.0 right here on Product Hunt. And the response was fantastic! Thousands of teams — including ClickUp, Pitch, and Zapier — have embraced Grain as an essential productivity tool to capture and share video clips from Zoom calls. We've spent countless ours recording interviews (using Grain of course) with many of you about how you use Grain (our favorite use case). We've turn those insights into small and large changes that make Grain even better. And now the time has finally come to unveil a new set of product functionality so big we just went ahead and called it 2.0. It really is a whole new Grain and we can't wait for you to try it out! 👉 Get Grain for Free 👈 -------------------------------- Product Updates -------------------------------- 🤯 Real-Time Highlights — It's seriously magic. Clip out of Zoom calls via caption in the notepad or directly from the transcript live on the web. You can share what someone said seconds ago... before the meeting is even over! Watch the Grain Clip 🎬 Tell Powerful Stories — Look, short clips are cool (especially in real-time) but can only handle so much information. So we built the most powerful story-telling tool the world has ever seen so you can compress a single meeting into the 3 min of highlight clips worth watching. Or even better, compile a remix of clips across multiple recordings like "The Voice of the Customer." Watch the Grain Story 🙌 Workflow Integrations — You told us Grain already saves an unbelievable amount of time vs conventional note-taking and video editing workflows. But we knew what you were really saying is you wanted to save even more time. Choose among dozens of different templates like: 🔥 Insight Clips => Slack ✅ Task Clips => Asana 📭 Follow-up Clips=> Gmail 👩‍💼 Sales Call Recording => Hubspot Watch the Grain Clip 🎧 Grain Recorder & Calendar Integration — We heard you like to use Grain when you're not the meeting host... so we got you. Grain now works with your calendar (Google or O365) and you simply tell it which calls to join. Watch the Grain Clip -------------------------------- Additional Product Improvements --------------------------------

• More Unfurling Videos (Dropbox Paper, Miro, Threads.com, Atlassian, Roam)
• Manual Media Uploads (.mov, .mp4, .mp3, .wav, .m4a)
• Additional language support (Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese)
• Updated Transcription (automatic speaker labels, transcript correction, accuracy)
• Sharing (better permission controls. regenerate public links.
• Workspace improvements (workspace invite link, desktop app optional, Linux/Windows App

-------------------------------- The Philosophy behind Grain -------------------------------- So every major version release of Grain is an opportunity to publicly document the milestones in our journey, the details of how our thinking is evolving over time, and provide a glimpse into our vision for future where we better understand and connect with each other. Cure your Zoom amnesia with Grain 2.0 Grain is a skill to learn to master over time. We aim to augment human performance, not replace it. Every day you spend in video call is an opportunity to maximize the time you spend there, which we believe can best be done by extending your ability to listen, think, and take action during the call. Eventually, you'll save hours per day from the tedious documentation and follow-up tasks that come up during calls. -------------------------------- Get Grain for Free -------------------------------- We believe that the best software truly sells itself. That's why we're giving all of this new functionality away for free. You don't have to pay a dime to use Grain on a monthly basis. You don't even have to pay us extra to add your team members to Grain. You only pay a recording allocation subscription after you use Grain enough that need to purchase a subscription for additional recorded meetings. 👉 Get Grain for Free 👈 — Mike and the Grain Team P.S. Keep up to date and tell us what you think on https://twitter.com/grainhq

Grain has revolutionized remote work for our team: • Compress 20-minute meetings into 2. • Never repeat yourself again. • Make real-time video highlights of user stories, client testimonials, internal communication, & more. Grain makes it easy to record, transcribe, and share the best parts of Zoom video calls. 🎞📝 Watch a real-time transcript of the call appear before your eyes—with speaker labels and everything. 🤩 Anyone can instantly leave timestamped notes for later reference. 🤓 When everything you've ever said on any meeting is searchable, and sharable, you unlock magic. 🪄️ • 🔎️ Find it: Search for anything you've ever said. • ✂️ Clip it: 20 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, doesn't matter. • 👐️ Share it: Send to Slack. Tweet a video. Shoot an email. Client said good things about your service on a strategy call? ➡️ Instant testimonial video. 💯 Customer shared user feedback on a support call? ➡️ Instant bug report. 🐛️ Team member explained a new way to work? ➡️ Instant tutorial. 👩‍🏫️ Let's say you made 10 "highlights" (video clips) from your meeting. 🔟️ Click a single button to combine those 10 highlights into a "Story" (like an Instagram story!). ✨ Share a link to that story. 💻 You just turned a 20-minute meeting into a 2-minute meeting. 😁 I could go on... ... and tell you about Zapier integration, emojis, and how you can use keyboard shortcuts to automatically post video highlights of the meeting you're on in realtime to a specific Slack channel... ... but you should really just check out Grain 2.0 for yourself. It's a game-changer. I'm so glad they're not charging more money for Grain 2.0 because I'd definitely pay it! • Listen to users. • Showcase clients. • Repeat yourself less. • Waste less time on notes. • Share more magical moments. • Communicate better with your team. • Compress hour-long meetings into minutes. If you run a remote company, you need to be using Grain.

Been using Grain for over a year now - and @mgadams3 told me I'm their #1 user in # of calls recorded. Why is that? 👇 => I invested in 25 companies last year, and actively advise 6 at any given time. There's so much valuable information into every call, that needs to be extracted 👇 🚧 Todos "Ok, I'll make the intro to Sequoia" ✅ Done "This idea you gave us? Yeah we shipped it" 🔥 good news "Our ARR grew 3x YoY, and we're now raising $3M on $30M with Accel" ... With workflows, my notes go direct into Asana, Roam, Slack .... Grain 2.0 brings things to a whole new level for productivity geeks like myself! Oh yeah, it also supports 🇫🇷 now :) => @mgadams3 wrote a blog post on how I use Grain: https://grain.co/blog/how-guilla...

Any tool that gives me back my time is an instant pick up for me! Been using Grain for a while now and the amount of time it saves me is pretty bonkers. Been awesome to see the new features roll out and pumped for Mike and the team 🤝

Awesome product - love using it!

Over the last 9+ months Grain has streamlined all communications for my marketing team. We've been able to capture, share - and most importantly find - the essential insights from Zoom calls with product managers about new feature blogs, analysts from top soccer clubs for case studies, and team members about new marketing campaigns. Truly, hours and hours would've otherwise been spent manually combing over these recordings. Can't wait to try out the new features @mgadams3 & @jake_adams3! (Especially the meeting recaps)

Real time highlights are magic. Period. No futzing, no scribbling notes. Just useful magic. 🙌

Very useful when you do demo products! Well done guys :)

Wow, this is awesome! Real-time highlights are game changers 🎉

I liked it. Is is a very good product. Highly recommend.

Awesome work. Been using Grain for the past couple of weeks for user interviews and usability testing and it’s a game changer when sharing snippets with colleagues! Looking forward to giving the update a spin!

We've been using Grain for a while to get more insights from our product demos. Already a great solution and these new toys seem to be awesome! 🥳🥳🥳

Nice. This looks promising!

Woah, this is next level impressive. Looks really helpful, especially when you have long back to back meetings, I'm just wondering how intuitive and easy it is to use?

Grain is amazing. Since the first version, we’ve been using it for every single meeting. The highlighting and embedding has been supper helpful for sales and client calls. Lovely product and team!

I don't know about you but I don't think I've ever watched an entire Zoom recording. Grain is a game-changer for distributed teams to be able to quickly share relevant clips of user interviews, engineering demos, and much more!

Congrats on the user friendly interface 🚀 🚀

That looks really impressive, congrats! 🚀🚀🚀🚀

This is so cool! Which languages do you support? Do you have language detection?

Grain 2.0 is the x factor for sales & customer success meetings. It increases the insight and accuracy into the customer's world, which in turn improves decision making, communications and overall relationship management.