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High-quality communication without endless meetings
Hiten Shah
Workflows by Humble Dot — A free team communication tool that eliminates meetings.
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Humble Dot Workflows allows teams to save hours by replacing meetings while making communication more efficient. Pick from our library of templates to get started in a flash. Examples include weekly status meetings, project retrospectives, 1:1s, and many more!
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Hiten Shah
Making your meetings at work productive tends to require at least a little bit of structure. Sometimes a lot. The folks at Humble Dot have created templated workflows for your meetings to make them that much better. Check 'em out, pick one and go!
Erik Torenberg
Congrats on the launch Will and Macgill! Give us more - what more can we expect in the future? :-)
Will Goto
@eriktorenberg Thanks Erik! We have so much planned, we're so excited for both our users in the short-term but also the natural extension of the product. Some of these things include: - Power user features like Search, Analytics, and Trends. - Organizational features like Nested Teams, Sharing between teams, Team Analytics and Trends. - Finally, improving the team member experience by introducing more in-depth Profiles/Digests. The focus here is to keep improving the efficiency of communication within teams and between teams in organizations while the landscape in the future of work shifts towards remote and distributed teams, offices in different time zones, and flexible schedules.
Rahul Gupta
As an engineering manager, I've been using Humbledot for staying connected to my team of 14 engineers. It's been especially helpful for informing my 6-month reviews. I'm looking forward to using the workflows for new-hire onboarding for my team.
Will Goto
@hul Thanks Rahul, great to see you're finding Humble Dot helpful for your 6-month reviews. Let us know how you like our Workflows. Any feedback is helpful!
Jack Shay
Humbledot has saved my (international) team a ton of time and made our meetings more meaningful by getting the basics out of the way and teeing up the important topics. The new workflow templates are giving me some great ideas and themes beyond just the weekly cadence stuff already in place.
Will Goto
@jackshay Hey Jack! Thanks for the positive review. Definitely let me know how your experience with workflows goes once you begin using them.
Macgill Davis
👋 Hunters, Thanks for checking us out! My name is Macgill and I’m the Head of Product at Humble Dot. I thought I’d share a bit about why and how we developed Workflows. Workflows is a feature that was truly inspired by our users and built around the idea that every team is unique with its own particular processes and communication styles. About a year ago, we launched Humble Dot with the goal of building happier and higher-performing teams by improving communication. To that end, we created a set of best practices - a Monday Kickoff and a Friday Wins & Shout-outs. We felt these two processes could help users get the most of our product and, therefore, build stronger, happier teams. However, from talking with our users of the last year, we’ve been amazed to see how teams have customized Humble Dot well beyond our best practice templates to fit their specific processes and needs. We saw teams create check-ins from scratch to fit entire new use cases. These included things like project retrospectives, product feature brainstorms, feedback on interview candidates, and more. Despite the variety of uses cases, our users consistently told us that they used Humble Dot because it allowed them to communicate more easily and with less noise while often times eliminating (or greatly reducing) a meeting or a messy Google Doc. Remote and distributed teams especially liked how Humble Dot allowed them to communicate asynchronously over multiple time zones. In short, we saw firsthand that every team is unique and requires their own particular processes. With Workflows, we wanted to share the many different uses cases for Humble Dot and provide teams with templates to easily find, setup, and customize the processes that work best for them. Nearly every one of our first 30+ Workflows was inspired by how a team currently uses Humble Dot. So take a look at Workflows! Pick a workflow and give us a try - it’s free 🙂! We’d love to hear your feedback and we’re eagerly looking for more ideas and categories for future workflows.
Will Goto
Thank you so much @hnshah for hunting our Workflows launch! Hello Product Hunt! My name Will Goto and I’m the CEO of Humble Dot. Meetings are incredibly disruptive to deep focus, particularly if you are a designer, engineer, or simply need hours of uninterrupted time to get your work done. Paul Graham (Cofounder of Y Combinator) famously wrote about how meetings inefficiently adhere to the manager’s schedule, not the maker’s schedule. In a world of remote work, globalized teams, and cross-functional projects, we need a new way to stay on the same page without endless meetings. Our goal with Humble Dot is to provide a more efficient and higher-quality form of communication without noise. Workflows is our next step to realize that goal. Our hope is to eliminate all meetings that can be run asynchronously through our product, saving countless hours for those who need blocks of uninterrupted time to be productive. Please check it out, and let us know what you think! ❤️
Hammad Akbar
To me, it looks similar to slack and other communication channels !
Will Goto
@hammad_akbar Thanks for checking it out! One big differentiator is the structure of our communication. We are based around well-written question prompts to get and organize precise information in an efficient way. Slack is very unstructured and hard to reference categorized updates for example.
Sheel Gupta
Hey all - I work at Humble Dot and we are working hard to build a tool that helps improve communication in companies. At previous jobs I would be in back to back meetings all day and I felt like I only needed 10% of the information. I'm excited to be a part of a product that is trying to fix that.
David Bonilla
Awesome product. Makes team and weekly check-ins fun to complete.
Will Goto
@dbonilla Thanks David! Definitely let us know if we can make it more fun.
James Hamilton
As a member & leader of a number of distributed teams, I am constantly looking for tools and processes to help create efficiencies and structure. I've really enjoyed using Humble's other products thus far, and look forward to putting workflows to use.
Will Goto
@james_hamilton4 Thanks James, any feedback on workflows would be amazing as you start using them.
Jeralyn Airoso
I really love how it's easy to use. We can effectively communicate with management and get to know our team better by seeing their responses to the ice breakers.
Will Goto
@jeralyn_airoso Thanks Jeralyn! Let me know if there's anything we can do to make the experience better. We're always looking for feedback.
Chris Walsh
We use Humble Dot to run weekly status updates; we’ve loved it. It’s fun and extremely easy to use and completely replaced our in-person status meetings that myself and everyone else dreaded.
Macgill Davis
@flyonthewalsh thanks, Chris! Glad to hear you're enjoying Humble Dot and that it's saving your team time!
Mukund Sridhar
Love using Humble Dot as a team member! Gives me the opportunity to stay in good communication with my manager even when working remote!
Will Goto
@mukund_sridhar Really appreciate it Mukund! Thanks for using Humble Dot.
Saahil Khemnani
Daily Standups have never been more enjoyable! Going to try to use more of these workflows now that Humble Dot has launched a whole feature set of them!
Will Goto
@saahil_khemnani Thanks Saahil, let me know if what you think about the different workflows! Any feedback is helpful.
Pilar Gabriel
Awesome lightweight tool for helping my team get to know each other on a weekly basis. What I love most about the platform is how connected I feel to team members who are across different time zones and languages. Can’t wait to see what Team Workflows has in store.
Will Goto
@pillyg Thanks for the review Pilar! Any feedback on Workflows is greatly appreciated.
Sarah Gupta
Super user friendly; takes my team minutes to use but saves me a ton of time as a manager; great historical tracking helps me look back to see what we were working on when as a team. Highly recommend.
Will Goto
@sarah2019 Really appreciate the review Sarah! Please feel free to ping me with any more feedback!
Ziomara Bryant
Humble Dot saved team’s my life! As a cosmetologist, I work with a team of beauty advisors who simply do not have the time to hop on meetings. This tool has saved my team lots of time and mental energy by allowing us to focus on the important priorities without the noise of phone calls or video conferencing.
Will Goto
@ziomara_bryant Thanks for the review! Let us know if you have any feedback as you use the tool.
Shelly Gupta
I've been using Humble Dot with my team for about a year now. Being that my team is distributed worldwide, HD has been extremely helpful because it helps me to manage my weekly 1:1's. More importantly (and my favorite aspect) is that it gives me and my team the opportunity to get to learn about one another. It offers a personal piece (via the social question), along with the professional.
Will Goto
@shelly_gupta2 Thanks Shelly, it's been great having you use the product for so long now. Please let us know what you think about workflows!
Ishaan Chhabra
Just newly started in my team and using Humble Dot makes me feel plugged in instantly. Definitely fills in the gap in communications tools out there.
Will Goto
@ishaan_chhabra Thanks Ishaan, let me know if you need any assistance or have any questions as you begin using the tool.
johntrell Dixon
Congrats on launching Workflows guys! I’ve watched Humble Dot progress overtime & I can vouch for its effectiveness. Now that HD has a free tier, I can communicate with several contractors and freelancers without having to schedule countless meetings.
Will Goto
@johntrell_dixon thanks! Let me know how we can make the tool better as you use workflows.