Tandem 2.0 — Unlock serendipity with the most powerful virtual office

Hi PH! I'm Rajiv, co-founder of Tandem along with @bernatfortet and @iambetaful. We launched nearly 2 years ago (the PH community's feedback was key to setting our product direction) and we've learned a ton since then: - We've learned how crucial audio-video reliability and performance are, and we've invested deeply in infra to give you the best possible experience. - Despite all the ink spilled on asynchronous work, at the end of the day, we build relationships, friendships, visions, and strong teams by talking. - Presence is more than signals - it's about Stories, feeling connected with, and aware of, conversations your teammates are having. - As the world starts going hybrid, the Virtual Office and the Physical Office need to co-exist and become intimately aware of each other. - Through supporting and listening closely to larger companies, we've learned how to scale serendipity! (see Team Tables below) Tandem is, no joke, 1000x better than when we launched. We've kept the lightweight desktop interface, and added powerful ways to connect, collaborate, and be human with your team. We also recently reached a truly awesome milestone: 2 million hours of calls on Tandem! 🏄‍♀️ 🙌 We started Tandem when my co-founders each had kids and we started working remotely. We missed the flow and camaraderie of working together, so we started building. Since then, my co-founders' kids are walking and talking (and high-fiving us on Tandem), and we've been joined by a truly world-class set of builders and thinkers that have pushed our vision of Tandem further and further. We're launching three new features here on Product Hunt: 👥 Team Tables - serendipity and co-working! Get a coffeeshop vibe with "overhearing" (to activate for your team, go to Settings > Team Settings > scroll down for Team Tables) 📱 Mobile (iOS + Android) - Great for walking 1-on-1s! It's a virtual office in your pocket! 📅 Never be late to a Meeting - stay in flow with Meeting Reminders and Auto-Join, and see when your next meeting is at a glance. No more checking Calendar! We've kept the streamlined, minimal desktop app that doesn't get in your way, and improved some of our best-loved features: - Hybrid Calls just work - "Same Room" prevents dreaded audio feedback when some people are in the same physical room. - Celebrate with ✋ High-Five (TM) and 🚀 Emoji rockets. - Get in touch quickly with 👋 Waves, DMs, and ⏰ Notify when free. - Instant interactive screen share - see your teammates cursors and point things out. And you can indeed use Tandem to replace Meet/Zoom (or integrate!): - Calls scale to 30 participants - Multi-platform (mac, windows, linux, iOS, Android) - Virtual backgrounds + blur - For scheduled meetings, Tandem can launch Meet/Zoom and you'll still have the Presence and visibility of Tandem calls. You can see our distilled thoughts on the Virtual Office and Presence here: https://blog.tandem.chat/the-vir... Sign up for free and trial Tandem with your team at http://tandem.chat — We've made Tandem free for teams under 10! Your feedback has made Tandem great, and is what will make it even better. Please tell us what you think! 🙏 -Rajiv

We've been using Tandem for over year and honestly I don't know how we could live with out it as a remote team. I'm super impressed with the product y'all have built and can't wait so see what you ship next.

We've been using Tandem at Wego Technologies for over 6 months ago and it is a phenomenal way to quickly talk with coworkers and have some of that much missed small talk. Couldn't recommend it more!

Hi @rajiv_ayyangar and all the team! We've been using Tandem since almost you started and I'm impressed on how critical it has been for the team to work efficiently. The other impressive thing is how fast the product evolves and I can't wait to try 2.0. Congrats!

Key question: does Cross Platform include Slack and Teams or do we have to migrate everyone off of one thing on to this to make it meaningful? Desperately want something better, and this looks like it, but when people are stuck in their preferences (Google meet, Slack, SMS, etc.) and a solution doesn't work with their behavior, this is really only an Enterprise solution where HR/Management can force it through (or a startup/small team solution where a few people can agree to change)

Free for small teams, whoop! Tandem is rock-solid. The degree to which performance and reliability has improved over the last year is amazing.

If you never used Tandem do it right now! It is like being at the office but you are at home. What I like the most : - "wave" 👋 at other to seek help without disturbing them - it is sooooo easy to share your screen with others to seek help or demonstrate something - high fives are sooo satisfying Great job @rajiv_ayyangar and the team

Tandem power user here. Just wanted to say how awesome this product and team is. Tandem has been our home base for over 1.5 years now, and everyone that's joined our team has absolutely loved it. They seem to have a sixth sense for what a virtual office needs to look like. Can't recommend it enough!

Tandem has been such a joy to use. It has become kind of a virtual office for our small team at Mailbrew 🙌

We've been using Tandem at Basedash since the start of the year, it's definitely our favorite form of meeting these days. Reliability and performance have been steadily improving over the past months which was our biggest concern when we first started using it. Love the flexibility of all the different types of calls—scheduled meetings, persistent rooms, ad hoc calls, and now team tables—which all seem to have their own place.

I ❤ Tandem. So optimized for work it's lovely. Also the only video / audio software that works when 2 of us are in the same room (it auto adjusts and cancels out background noise and that odd screech and echo that usually happens).

Been using Tandem with my remote team and it's a game changer for how we work together. Congrats on the launch!

Big congrats to @rajiv_ayyangar and the whole Tandem team on this launch. I absolutely love Tandem, the focus on Presence is an absolute game changer when compared to other virtual offices and the little touches like High-Five spark so much joy. Can't wait to try out Team Tables 🚀

Tandem was a game changer for our team. Highly recommend to all. Nice to see the new Tables feature. We usually just had a room called “Working together silently” which worked well.

Tandem is a simple, effective way to improve impromptu collaboration and create the "virtual water cooler." Valuable for team camaraderie and overall productivity. We tried to do this on Zoom by offering optional office hours. It started to feel like a meeting on people's calendars, and thus ... it failed to catch on. Bravo Tandem team!

Our team has been using Tandem for a while and I have been loving all the micro updates that they have been pushing which makes us all feel connected while working virtually. It's hard to explain what in particular makes this product great, but once you start using it it is hard to use anything else.

Been using Tandem for a while and CANNOT EMPHASIZE how much it has helped us build a team and company through the pandemic!! Won't exist without this amazing product

We have been happy users of Tandem for a while now. Awesome to see the team continuing to crush it. I can’t imagine running a remote team without Tandem!

We've been using Tandem for over a year, and have found it essential for quick collaboration, for our chattier teams to work well together seamlessly and to help the company as a whole feel less lonely.

I love it! I’ve been working remotely for over a year and a half now. Although our culture truly makes it immersive and amazing, Tandem could be the ice on the cake! Would love to try it out — is there a free version to test?