Hi Product Hunt! I’m Jakob, co-founder and CEO of Butter. We want to make online workshops as delightful and interactive as humanly possible — and feel 10x more energy-filled than one currently does! We’ve been working on this for almost a year now, and we’re really excited to share it with you today! Amazing to have @chrismessina hunt us! 🌱 How it started We all loved the energy of being part of a really great trainings and workshops — where we left the session feeling really inspired and connected with people, ready to take on the world. But when we tried facilitating online workshops ourselves when the pandemic first hit, something seemed to be off. Online workshops just didn’t feel as valuable as they used to be when they were in person. Turns out it wasn’t just us: we've spoken to 1000+ facilitators who felt the same pain. They were scrambling from one app to another, feeling handicapped at not being able to manage sessions as easily as they used to and frustrated at not being able to engage the room like before. Their focus ended up being on the tech, not the discussions. 😍 Why Butter We're building the most powerful and delightful platform for online workshops and trainings at Butter. We want to enable facilitators to put their energy into doing what they do best: running high-energy collaborative sessions that participants love. And we do that by allowing them to prep, run and debrief their sessions all from one place. We believe that in the future, most workshops will be facilitated online and will look nothing like how they look today! We're building the platform for these workshops. All of these powerful features are currently available for FREE (for now)! - Stay on task with the timeboxed Agenda and minimise awkwardness with the Queue - Collaborate more effectively using our powerful Miro, Google Drive, YouTube and Whiteboard integrations - Pump up the energy with fun reactions, sounds, GIF chats and polls! - Manage Breakout groups with ease with customisable breakout setups, broadcast messaging and even a Peek function - Gather thoughts quickly with engaging Polls - Get the energy up even before participants enter with the customisable Waiting Room (with music!) - Easily access Session Recaps with chat logs, notes, recordings and poll results from your dashboard - Reuse your room settings and templates with our permanent Room setup - No installs needed! It runs on your browser and people can join just with a link - Ultra-secure security and privacy infrastructure and EU-level GDPR compliance - Works for up to 100 people in a session 🔮 What’s next Desktop and mobile app, workshop builders, team accounts, more workflow integrations, and more! We’ll keep you posted as we ship. 💛 Let us know what you think! We’ve built Butter with love and with the community from Day 1. Even after a year, it still delights us to see users pitching in suggestions on how we can make Butter even better. We believe that our product will only be as good as the feedback we get — and we want it to be exceptional so we’d love to hear what you think! 😉 Feel free to leave a comment below or reach out on email anytime. Love, Jakob & the Butter team

I'm superpumped about what Butter has built. We had our first call using the platform and at first it seemed like another browser-based video streaming tool... but then they gave me access to the facilitator tools and my mind melted down. This is some really special software — it's super fun to use and is specially-built for running highly productive online workshops. 🧈 Butter 🧈 me 🧈 up! 🧈

We're all 1 year into the "shitty workshop mess" of 11 calendar invites for a 3 hour session, of constantly sending new links back and forth, of people rejoining the wrong rooms and missing sessions. It's broken and it needs fixing. That's what Butter is. The new way to workshop. As someone who has ran workshops, as someone who attends them, I can safe Butter is just Much better than what you're currently doing. Give it a try.

Butter is a refreshingly cool tool! 😎 Not only does it deliver on the promise "Workshops as smooth as butter" 🧈 It will take your workshops to another level. I have also started using it for recurring meeting, both for the fun parts like the music, reactions and soundboard. But also because of the great agenda. It just helps keeping the meeting energy up and make sure everyone is on the same page. "Embrace silliness" seems to be one of their values. This really goes through all the way to the product, which makes it really unique. So the question you want answered is, would you like to have a half-boring workshop in Zoom or an awesome experience in Butter? I know which one I choose.. 🧈

Cool product with awesome looking visuals!Well done

This looks amazing! Definitely going to be using Butter for my Design workshops!

Yessss, congrats on this team! We love Butter at the On Deck Designer Fellowship 🔥

I found Butter via a Slack workspace in June 2020, and I immediately saw the promise. Spoke to its co-founder Chris and exchanged a few emails. They are always a little more than what you would expect in a new product in this category—adding new delightful utilities with tonnes of energy. :) Being a design and product consultant, I love their attention to details, and the velocity of their decisions making sense in the product itself. I have referred it to a few of my friends in UX and product for hosting programs and workshops and I am looking forward to see how it scales.

Butter has grown and improved at an incredible rate since I first ran a workshop some months ago. The team are absolutely epic, and the combo of product and people is absolutely second to none. Great job to @jakob_knutzen1, @mrchrisholm, @cheska_teresa and the whole team ❤️ Great to see the launch today, will be following closely. 🚀

Hi, definitely a game changer for workshop!

Tried out Butter at a workshop recently and was hugely surprised by how simple and intuitive this could be facilitated through Butter. This is THE no 1 workshop tool! Definitely not going back to Zoom, Teams etc. again!

Really easy to use and so much more effective and fun - i'm forcing it on my co-workers these days :) And they're really excited!

How advanced is the whiteboard compared to Miro or Mural for example?

The smoothest on the market yet. Been trying tons of tools lately and honestly I prefer Butter not just for it's functionality and reliability but for it's personal design.

Love Butter!!! Congrats on the launch 🚀🧈

Butter is a total game changer! The fun, vibrant interface puts participants in a great mood from the beginning to start your session off on the right foot. I spend a lot of time in coworking sessions and the YouTube integration has made our rooms feel more like the third spaces like coffee shops and libraries that many of us used to frequent but can't these days. So excited to see Butter fly high!

Butter is a complete game changer for workshop hosts and participants. It's made some of our internal sessions productive again

Wow this looks perfect for workshops and team meetings! Whiteboards, polls, and breakout rooms. Thanks for making this completely free. Hopefully you'll offer something special for early adopters :D

Our team of 10 use Butter for our weekly meetings! Not only is every must-have feature butter smooth, but well timed Butter reactions seems to always catch us off guard to create great moments!

Butter has really brought back the fun in workshops and online meetings. I've been having serious Zoom fatigue lately but getting on to Butter is such a delightful experience, and participants seem to be a lot more engaged through the different functionalities.