I've been working on an app to help teams collaborate better, using what I learned working at an all-remote unicorn about what makes remote and async work well. The core idea is that many teams are having trouble collaborating remotely - they are ending up in too many meetings, getting interrupted too much in chat, and information about who is working on what, or what discussions are happening, isn't flowing well.
AsyncGo helps by giving you a shared space that contains all the active discussions happening within your team in one place, and helps you make them happen asynchronously. Each topic is set up with a clear agenda, and then is worked on together over a few days. There's a clear due date that lets everyone know when the conversation needs to wrap up, and uniquely (I think) there's an explicit outcome field that the team iterates on together throughout the discussion. This means when you wrap up your topic, it's self-documenting. You can also set action items in the outcome if you have next steps, like updating documentation somewhere else. Once you're rolling with this way of working, you don't really need as many meetings, and Slack can become a lot quieter.
It has a free tier for up to five users, so please feel free to make an account and play around if you like. It's early days, but I think it has most of the basics and is usable now to collaborate in a better way. It's also on Product Hunt today (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/asyncgo), if you think it looks interesting I'd love to have your support there as well.
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AsyncGo helps by giving you a shared space that contains all the active discussions happening within your team in one place, and helps you make them happen asynchronously. Each topic is set up with a clear agenda, and then is worked on together over a few days. There's a clear due date that lets everyone know when the conversation needs to wrap up, and uniquely (I think) there's an explicit outcome field that the team iterates on together throughout the discussion. This means when you wrap up your topic, it's self-documenting. You can also set action items in the outcome if you have next steps, like updating documentation somewhere else. Once you're rolling with this way of working, you don't really need as many meetings, and Slack can become a lot quieter.
It has a free tier for up to five users, so please feel free to make an account and play around if you like. It's early days, but I think it has most of the basics and is usable now to collaborate in a better way. It's also on Product Hunt today (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/asyncgo), if you think it looks interesting I'd love to have your support there as well.
Either way, thanks for taking a look!