Hiten Shah

Hugo - Meeting notes that connect to your calendar and work apps

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Hugo: connected meeting notes software β€” a calendar-centric hub for your meeting notes & agendas.
Collaborate on agendas and notes that are linked to your calendar. @mention teammates. Create Jira issues and sync to Slack, Salesforce and 20+ other apps.

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Stanislav Dimitrov
Guys, the images on your website can be described with one word - art. They are stunningly good!
Darren Chait
@stanislav_dim thanks! It's an important part of our brand, so we've worked with some pretty amazing illustrators to help us tell the story! Thanks for the support πŸ™Œ
Carly Martinetti
@stanislav_dim @darren_chait Can I ask what firm you worked with to build the website? Looking to hire one myself and could use a good rec! This product looks awesome btw, excited to try it out.
Darren Chait
@stanislav_dim @carly_martinetti We built it internally using Webflow! Thanks - let us know how you go getting started with Hugo.
Michael Dunworth
These guys have nailed two big problems - organizing notes for important meetings, context continuity, all without having to rotate through apps. Would be dope to have on iOS or mobile in general... Any plans for it? πŸ‘ŒπŸΌ
Josh Lowy
@michaeldunwort1 trust me when I say THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME we have had a request to support mobile! Good news to share - native apps for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS is already in development and we plan to release those soon. Android won't be far behind either πŸ“± πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»
Josh Lowy
Hey ProductHunt, Firstly, thanks @hnshah for hunting us! The inspiration for Hugo struck while building another app. Like so many teams, we were massively distributed. Our team was partly remote, and my co-founder and I were out of the office all the time. I took pride in how much we talked to customers in person. But, when we’d return the debrief/team sync would break because we weren't in the same room or even on the same timezone. We wanted to move faster, and we wanted to build a transparent team, but we were utterly failing to connect meeting insights to the rest of the company. Hugo innovates on meeting notes - organizing everything based on our calendar and connecting our work apps. Now we're prompted to set agendas and write notes when it makes sense, and then everything can be shared with the team in Slack. Suddenly, we’d return from our day's journey, and the team was in sync and already full of ideas. We were on to something. Plus, by linking meeting notes to the calendar, we didn’t have to organize anything anymore β€” my biggest headache! That’s when @darren_chait asked me, β€œWhat else do you reckon we can connect our meeting notes to?” Engineering work gets done in Jira, marketing in Asana, sales in a CRM and the list goes on. So, Slack and calendars were the first two integrations. Today Hugo connects with 20+ tools. That became our mission β€” to connect the way we meet, to the way we work. Key Hugo Features πŸ”Ž Notes are automatically categorized by meetings and attendees πŸš€ Integrations to create tasks/tickets in project management apps from your notes πŸ”„ Auto-sync notes to CRM records that match the meeting πŸ’¬ Post notes to Slack channels and DMs πŸ“ Collaborative agendas and notes for the whole team πŸ’Ό Free agenda template library for best practices πŸ‘‹ Mention to notify teammates Now Hugo powers meetings at Nike, Dropbox, iHeartMedia, Twitter, Shopify, and other leading companies, with best-practice meeting workflows out of the box. We’re also offering the PH community free access to Hugo for teams of up to 40. Let us know what you think. Thanks for the support! πŸ™Œ
Jason Jerald
Josh is very responsive and clearly interested in feedback and improving his product. This is rare compared with other companies and based on his communication I'm confident Hugo is going to get even better.
Josh Lowy
@jason_jerald thank you, keep the feedback coming our way πŸ‘Œ
Hiten Shah
Hugo's product is focused on meeting notes and I'm happy to be hunting them today. A team has built a lot of depth around a single common use case inside of companies and the problems associated with it. If you'd like to make your team meetings better, check out Hugo. They've got a free plan!
Elliott Spira
This product appears to automate a process that I have never seen anyone get right at any company. Meeting notes always get lost! Thank you for making this!
Darren Chait
@elliottspira you got it!
Brendan Fortune
Hugo has identified a really interesting problem, and taken a novel approach to solve it. Great stuff here. (Plus, they have one of the best onboarding email flows I've ever seen.)
Josh Lowy
@brendan_fortune1 ha thanks! We know that a lot of products end up with on-boarding emails that get in the way, I'm glad you found the opposite with ours πŸ™Œ
Darren Chait
@brendan_fortune1 It helps when we have the best product for customer communications powering us :)
Dave Hannes
Love how the Hugo product drives us to embed great meeting practices that help us hold the most impact in our internal and external meetings. Well done on the progress so far @darren_chait @joshlowy
Josh Lowy
@dave_hannes great point re meeting best practices, our growing library of free templates keep the trains on their tracks no matter what the meeting is - prospect calls, customer reviews, team meetings or 1:1's. These templates are great for setting agendas ahead of time too πŸ“
Nathan Field
We've used Hugo at Drawboard for a couple years now and it's helped us unify our meeting notes process so much. All our sales meetings use Hugo templates, and all notes are posted to a Slack channel where all product, sales, marketing and engineering team members digest what's gone down in the meeting. This then allows us to grab parts of a meeting and send to ProductBoard for example, or to spin up a separate conversation on helping the prospect with their decision. Darren and Josh are so super helpful, responsive and very reactive with product updates. Love it!
Josh Lowy
@nathfield thanks for walking through your Hugo workflow, and for sharing how it brings so many departments together too!
Justin Winter
Boostopia has been using Hugo for a good while now for our go to market teams. Success and Sales, here for a while. Our Success teams use it live in meetings with our clients and everyone loves it. Highly recommended!
Josh Lowy
@jcwinter this is a great point thanks for sharing - Hugo unleashes the power of GTM teams b/c not only do they run better meetings, they push insights from those meetings to the rest of the company. Product can't do product unless they know what their customers are thinking and saying!
Matt Renie
Love Hugo! It's been a total gamechanger for me in staying organized with all of my customer facing meetings and never wondering where I saved that copy of meeting notes. Easy sharing and collaboration internally and externally. Definitely recommend.
Josh Lowy
@mjrenie you nailed the sell - automatically organized, seamless sharing of insights with the team πŸ‘
Bala Chandran
Big fan of Hugo - our team uses it all the time and it keeps us all in sync. Nice job with all the integrations and thoughtful UX.
Josh Lowy
Thanks @bgchandran and the ThinkLumo team for all of your insights and feedback in recent months!
Dylan Ryan
I'm a current customer of Hugo and have loved it since day 1. @joshlowy and his team have been working hard & it shows. This was the perfect replacement for Cisco's acquisition of Spark Notes. Thank you guys & gals!
Josh Lowy
Hasan Diwan
My life is centred around my schedule -- https://whereishasan.herokuapp.c... -- as those that deal with me have invariably realized and it boggles the mind that my mates don't centre their lives around the same. It pleases me to no end that @joshlowy and co feel the same way as I. If you two need any help with development, please reach out.
Josh Lowy
@hasan_diwan you got it, linking to calendar πŸ—“ meetings is key!
Matteo Grand
Hugo is a very solid product! I've suggested Hugo to a few agencies that I consult with to help them make sense of their seemingly endless meetings, and they haven't looked back. Well done @joshlowy and @darren_chait - keep up the great work!
Darren Chait
@matteogrand Thanks for being such a great advocate for Hugo! We're excited to launch some new features soon to make meeting life in an agency even better too! Watch this space πŸ™Š
Peter Golobar
Wow, curious on testing this one!
Josh Lowy
@p_happythinker just use in-product chat if you need a hand with anything or are looking for best practices! Left Nav > Resources > Live Chat πŸ‘
Barbara Sharp
Prods me to make notes while they’re fresh
Josh Lowy
@barbara_sharp thanks, an important part of the Hugo workflow!
Aaron Thompson
Hello World....I love the Hugo team, product and use case! EVERYBODY has a struggle with silo'd notes and information. Use Hugo to knock down those silos and start to calculate the previously unquantifiable! Check 'em out!
Josh Lowy
Thanks @aaron_thompson1 ☝️!
Soumya Indurti
We've been using Hugo for over a month and it's been a great addition to manage meetings (known to be usually unproductive - especially with agenda and follow up) and works really well with our CRM, HubSpot. Met one of the Founders @darren_chait recently and seems like Hugo is run by a great bunch of people too!
Darren Chait
@soumya_indurti Thanks - it was great to meet you recently! I totally agree with how unproductive meetings can be - happy to hear we're making a difference for the team with Hugo + Hubspot + all your other tools πŸ‘Š
Chris Sheffield
Been using this app for nearly 24 hours. Have it synced to my google calendar and slack. Loving it so far and the founders have been super helpful in the support channels :)
Darren Chait
@iamshief Thanks Chris - good to hear! Welcome to Hugo πŸ‘Š