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Reid Hoffman

Tome Beta - The storytelling tool for work

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Tome is a tool for creating stories at work—whether it's about strategy, design, data, or a personal message. Tomes are visual, interactive, connected: easily shared with your team or audience on the web.

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Reid Hoffman
Maker
Hi everyone, I’m excited to tell you about Tome. I've been working with the team behind this for the past two years. Tome makes it easy to share ideas, which helps us arrive at better alignment—whether it’s about work or what’s happening in the world today. This is something I'm really passionate about. With Tome, you don’t need to squeeze your thoughts into a constrained page. Instead, you can write and input content freely, and the canvas will adapt to fit. It'll also handle layouts automatically, so that you can focus on your content's narrative rather than how it looks. I believe Tome can make alignment easier with the tools it provides to connect you with your audience. You can annotate or overlay video to further explain your thinking, embed interactive data, and get feedback regarding what your audience has spent the most time on. I can't wait for more of us to use Tome. With better tools to share our knowledge, experience, and stories, we can build a stronger community and get a lot more done!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@reidhoffman thank you for the hunt! 👋🏼 Hi everyone! I’m Henri, cofounder at Tome. My cofounder Keith & I noticed that slide tools (the go-to for sharing + presenting our work) forced us to focus more on formatting than on crafting a message. Viewing slides isn't a great experience either—especially on a phone. (This makes it hard to get aligned on a deck you're finishing the night before a review. 😅) Lastly, slides aren't great for the kind of work we do now, e.g. a product demo in motion, a 3d scene, or an interactive chart from a dashboard on the web. We wanted a tool that solves these problems, so we created Tome. Tome is a storytelling tool built for people who create things. We've seen designers use it for product reviews, PMs for status updates, and engineers for internal tech talks. Here's one I made: https://tome.app/tome/introducin... What you can expect from the product today: - Dynamic, drag & drop, tile-based format that lays out content for you - First-class experience on mobile, in our native app and in the browser - Video narration for each page - Comments, @mentions, and seen-states for you + your team - Text editing powered by markdown - Image and video editing (including cropping, trimming, and auto-background color matching) - Tables with formatting, colors, and drag & drop rows/columns We've been building alongside our early users at Snap, Superhuman, and Instagram who use it for internal design demos, reviewing customer feedback, and team all-hands. I'm excited to hear what you think. We've just started building embeds & integrations for web services like Figma, Framer, Looker, Airtable, etc. Let us know what else you'd like to see in Tome! Sign up at http://tome.app/
Miguel Fernando
@mentions @henri_liriani1 Haven't been so excited about an app replacing a core technology in a while! I put in a beta user request, let me in!! :)
Camilla Gad Krogsgaard
@reidhoffman @mentions @henri_liriani1 So excited to try this out! Looks absolutely fantastic & I'm sure this will be a huge success! When do you expect it to release?
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
@reidhoffman very cool product! just curious, how did you decide to hunt this product? Is it a greylock company?
Amber Illig Nelson
@mentions @henri_liriani1 @miguel_fernando1 Same! patiently awaiting my approval on the beta waitlist :)
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Blown away by the polish and ingenuity in this product, given it's just coming to market now. Stoked for this team and what they're building. Eager to adopt this personally!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@chrismessina thanks Chris, that's really kind of you. Excited to hear your feedback on the product. :)
Keith Peiris
Maker
@chrismessina stoked to see what you make with it.
Erik Meijerink
Looks interesting and fun to use! Signed up.
Keith Peiris
Maker
@erikotn Thanks for signing up! Excited to onboard you over the next few weeks. We're scheduling people starting today.
Henri Liriani
Maker
@erikotn Thank you Erik, we're excited to hear what you think!
Arthur Gerigk
Tome is amazing . I could immediately relate to the problem statement and Henri is one of the most talented product thinkers I ever worked with .
Henri Liriani
Maker
@arthur_ge Thank you, that's really kind of you to say. :) Excited for you to try Tome.
Steven Du
Sounds cool! Good job guys!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@steven_du2 Thank you Steven!
Sofia R
Tome is awesome, can’t wait to share it with more people!
Keith Peiris
Maker
@sofia_a_e_r Thanks for sharing, we're excited to onboard you in the next few weeks.
Victor Umunze
This looks amazing. Sounds like something that would be useful for quick idea generation. I always tell my team to focus on putting their ideas on paper rather than worrying about the format or it’s presentation. This would solve their angst and help them bring ideas to the world faster.
Keith Peiris
Maker
@ije1 Glad you mentioned this. We had to coach people on how to build presentations in our previous jobs and we always asked folks to write out the story on paper before moving it to slides. Tome is designed for you to write out the narrative first and drop in artifacts after. Excited to onboard you over the next couple of weeks and get your thoughts.
Austin
I’ve been using it for a while and I like it.
Keith Peiris
Maker
@arbales Thanks for giving us so much great feedback over the past few months.
Ryan Hoover
This feels like a Pitch meets Fig Jam hybrid. Very cool. What are the most common use cases, @henri_liriani1?
Henri Liriani
Maker
@rrhoover the most common we’ve seen are (1) product / design demos and (2) meeting “decks” like for an all hands. Have definitely been surprised by a few though! Like leave-behinds for sales / customer success.
Hammad Bashir
No more turning my head sideways to look at google slides in full res on my phone. Tome is how everyone should be communicating ideas at work. Congrats on the launch!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@hammad_bashir Thank you! Really glad the mobile view makes a difference for you. :D
Alim Kalyoncu
Nice interface, looking dope.
Henri Liriani
Maker
@alim_kalyoncu19 Appreciate that Alim! We'd be excited to hear what you think of the product. :)
Aino Valtonen
Looks awesome! Congrats :)
Henri Liriani
Maker
@aino_v thank you!
Francesco Signorato
@kpx33 @reidhoffman @henri_liriani1 Amazing product guys 🚀
Henri Liriani
Maker
@francesco_signorato Thank you Francessco! Can't wait to see what you think!
Jacob Frantz
I've been on the beta for Tome for the last couple months and have liked it a lot. It lets me focus on the narrative and content of my ideas, and frees me from having to think about all the layout, font size, and arrangement in Keynote. And the results still look great and professional. I hadn't realized how many things were in a middle zone between a notion doc & a keynote preso until I started using Tome. I also like that it makes a mobile-friendly version of your deck for others to read, too.
Henri Liriani
Maker
@therealjfrantz your feedback has been super helpful in building the product Jacob! Thank you, I'm glad it was useful to you! 🙏🏼
Hemal Shah
Been using this in beta for a bit and I’ve never gone back to the old way of story telling. This is the easiest way to build narratives and the team is so quick to respond to feedback and requests. Way to go @kpx33 and team!
Keith Peiris
Maker
@hemal thanks for being a great dogfooder!
Ashley Higgins
Congrats on the launch, this looks awesome! Being a great storyteller feels more important than ever with everything moving remote + async. Submitted our beta request, can't wait to get my hands on it.
Keith Peiris
Maker
@ahiggz Thank you! We're onboarding people as fast as we can. Expect to hear from us in the next day.
Zeeshan Ejaz Bhatti
Attention has become the most scarce commodity in our lives. This looks like a great way to share customer stories with propective clients online rather than making them download eBooks and case-studies. Great work!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@shandotpk Thanks for the kind words! Excited for you to try it and tell us what you think! :)
Zaki Shaheen
Maker
@shandotpk Thanks Zeeshan! Means a lot. you can checkout these public Tomes that Reid and Seth have put together. https://tome.app/tome/introducin... https://tome.app/greylock/humani...
Jamie Gotz
Super work guys - congrats on the launch!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@anna_gee thank you!
Jamie Gotz
Epic product - congrats!
Henri Liriani
Maker
@jamie_gotz thank you! Excited for you to give it a shot. :)
Kevin Natanzon
Loved it! still invite only?
Henri Liriani
Maker
@kevinnatanzon thank you! Right now we’re onboarding about 100 people / week as we set up our self serve. Would love to get you using it and hear your thoughts!