Remotion 2.0 — A virtual office for your hybrid team, right on your desktop

👋 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!

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?

This feels like discord but for businesses! I love the emoji function, it makes teamwork a hundred times more fun. Do you guys plan on making this available for Windows soon too?

Honestly, this looks fantastic for remote teams. I've been reading a lot lately about people wanting to know tips to get the office-like feeling while working from home, and I think this might be one of the best solutions I've seen so far. Just one question: is there some way of chatting through texts instead or to use shared documents?

Congrats on the launch! We love Remotion and have been using for the past few months with our remote team across 3-4 different time zones. It's a way more natural / organic way to chat and collaborate with team members compared to Zoom, and it's helped us feel way more in touch and connected with our remote team members. Highly recommend for anyone running a distributed team.

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 ! 🙌

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!!

This is honestly so cool, it brings all the fun back to teamwork. I love the entire user interface, it lends a very bright vibe to work that might at some points feel like a chore. I’m sure it’ll brighten many days.

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.

I've had a chance to use Remotion and it's brilliant. No more link sharing/ inviting and planning to set up a conversation. Even better is the fact that you don't have to give up a huge portion of your screen. Congrats on the launch!

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!

this has been fantastic -- we just reopened our offices and are trying to figure out how to support 2 offices and WFH together. Very excited to be piloting the hybrid rooms feature where we put Remotion on a TV. the team's product chops are amazing!

"people don't love Remotion because it makes them more "productive." People love Remotion because it helps them feel like they're together." I feel like we've all read descriptions like this before, and often they're just phrases, but with your product it feels sincere and it really resonates with me. I'm eager to try Remotion with my team. Thank you :)

We love @remotionco ! We use it everyday - it's meeting a clear need especially as our team is fully remote. We use it for spontaneous meetings and team connectivity. I also love how great the founding team is - they take feedback really seriously and have consistently shipped new features that make Remo even more awesome. Keep up the good work!

We’ve been using Remotion for around a year and it’s awesome. For me, the most important feature of Remotion is the team dock, which helps me see who’s free to chat at a glance, any time. So I’ve appreciated how, over the past months, they’ve refined the flexibility in the size and position of the dock. Now, our team is just reopening the office and we’re thinking through how to support flexible work. Excited to pilot their new “Hybrid Rooms” feature where they connect a screen in the office to a Remotion room. Thank you for the great product!

Great product, and we use it within our team. It has definitely helped us during COVID, and building a remote friendly culture!

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.

Congrats @embirico! We need to use this at On Deck too! This is going to help lots of teams collaborate more effectively. 🚀

Love remotion! Can't wait for you to reach Linux, but in the meantime I appreciate all the efforts to get it right on one platform before spreading yourselves too thin!