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Reinventing remote communication
Paul Mit

Beseda — Async video and audio messaging for remote teams

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Instead of meetings, use Beseda to send videos and audios — both transcribed — and have more time for focused work without distractions. Standups, design reviews, reporting bugs, collecting and giving feedback — the sky's the limit for the ways to apply.
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Alexey Shashkov
Looking good! Good job, guys. 💪🙂🙌 Why is this better than Slack or Telegram for the same tasks? In transcribing, right? I can use familiar Slack or Telegram for sending asynchronous videos and audios. What if Slack will add transcribing too?
Ilya Kuleshov
@shashcoffe Hi, Alexey! Thank you for your comment. We are creating a more smooth user experience for visual communication. Slack doesn’t have video or audio messages right now, only if you use Loom to do it. Telegram is good but doesn’t have transcription, which makes audio and videos messages not so useful. And it doesn’t have screen recording also. We hope to combine all great solutions for async communication in our tool. Become our early user and help us to do it.
Alexey Shashkov
@ilya_kuleshov Hey Ilya, thanks for this cool answer. I hope you will grow very fast. And thanks for inviting me in your early users)
Aditya
?makers Congratulations on the launch! Love the use cases that you have mentioned on your website, perfect for small or big startups. Curious to know about Slack integration... what are the plans for that?
Paul Mit
@adityavsc Thanks for the question! All I know is that Figma is going to be first in the intergration list, but connection with Slack is an interesting idea to discuss.
Congrats on the launch! Looks amazing, plus clicking on button before accessing website adds more to the experience.
Dan Melnichuk
@falak_sher Thanks! Button was Lida's idea. We were thrilled when she first showed it to us 🔴
Paul Mit
You've got a new message 🔔 Hey everybody, Excited to present this extremely interesting (and very bright) project to our global community. The rapid spread of remote work principles is a powerful trend, so every tool that can improve team interaction and daily communication is of interest. And this is also the case when the product design is an integral part of it, the interfaces look very nice and clean. I can't wait to test the UX. Let's support guys in product development. I am sure that your opinion and ideas will be very useful at this stage. 👋
Lida Ovchinnikova
@mituhin Pasha, thanks for hunted us! And thank you for all helpful tips that you gave us 💕
Sofya Narbut
This is awesome, fell in love with it from the moment I saw the landing page and it met me with the "end meeting for all" button :)
Lida Ovchinnikova
@sofya_narbut Yeah, we counted on such a reaction! Thanks, Sonya ✨
Deepak Yadav
Just signed up for early access. ⚡️ Finally a product that's adaptive to todays communication need. Congratulations to product designers, founders and the entire team for creating such a beautiful product concept. Sneak peak on product looks really exciting and promising on website. I would love to be a part of this wonderful journey. I tried joining slack link but its asking for corporate beside ID. I am looking forward to a the product. Let me know how do I connect with team as a early stage user and to provide feedback on Product. Again, Congratulations and best of luck to the entire team. 🔥
Lida Ovchinnikova
@worklab Thanks, really appreciate it! About Slack link — our bad, used the wrong link. Already fixed, would love to see you there (you can click again on the button at the bottom of the page)
Cica-Laure Mbappé
I like the fact that the videos and audios are searchable, great work guys! Yay to the 1# Product of the Day ✨
Dan Melnichuk
@cica_laure_mbappe Thanks a lot! We make a big bet on searching by transcription 🔎
Alex Malytskyy
A landing page is dope! I think a team that created a landing page like that will be clean on product design! you got +1 for early access
Lida Ovchinnikova
@oleksiy_malytskyy Yay, thank you!
Lida Ovchinnikova
Hey Hunters ✨ I'm Lida, co-founder of Beseda. We’re on a mission to help remote and hybrid teams communicate asynchronously using audio and video messages. The pandemic has changed the culture of corporate communication. Many people spend most of their time on calls. It seems to be very easy to hop on a meeting, so we do it even at an inconvenient time or at a time allotted for focused work. In my previous job, I had to call my CEO at 6 am because of the different time zones just to sync up on tasks. Or I’d get in a meeting with 50 colleagues, where we would all just listen to one talking head, telling about the results of an experiment (often, I happened to be the talking head). It’s not enough, and oftentimes simply not possible to just reduce the number of communications. So we decided to go the other way round and create a service for asynchronous communication. Instead of making calls or writing long texts, you record a video or audio, and your teammates can go through them and answer whenever they want and can. This frees up time for focused work and rest. We’re also planning to make integrations with tools where working communication often takes place: Figma, Github, Miro, and others. The first one in line is the plugin for Figma. We know how hard it is to give feedback on designs via text comments. Our plugin will allow you to leave video and audio comments right in the layout. Beseda is free for now, later we will introduce paid options. We're in the closed beta now and we will give the access gradually to make sure everything works stably. Join our community to build the future of remote work. Together we can make our product suitable for modern teams, and teach each other how to not be just a head in the circle, but a teammate everyone loves to work with. We’re waiting for your feedback in the comments 👇
Evgeniia Mishchenko
@lida_o very user-friendly! You have all the ingredients of being a successful venture 😉
Lida Ovchinnikova
@evgeniia_mishchenko Thanks! Will do our best ✨
Akshita Gupta
Every tool in Beseda seems to improve team interaction and daily communication! I love the product design, the interface is seamless and aesthetic. This helps me give focused points of feedback to my co-workers. Would be a great download.
Lida Ovchinnikova
@guptaakshitaa Thanx so much, Akshita!
Ilia Semenov
Amazing product, folks! Working on Cloudthread from day 1 I can definitely tell that you are solving a real pain!🙌
Dan Melnichuk
@iliasemenov Thank you, Ilia! We hope we can solve this 😌 By the way, Cloudthread is also cool, we're thinking of trying it.
Alex Shirokolobov
Productivity tools have to be clean and simple. Your product looks just like that! Congrats on the launch!
Lida Ovchinnikova
@shirokolobov Thanks, Alex!
Ali Jelveh
Beseda looks amazing! It offers so many solutions to issues we're all dealing with due to remote communication. Excited to see it launch, congrats!
Ilya Kuleshov
@jelveh, we are almost ready 💪 Our beta starts very soon!
Nguyen
Great idea! Just a quick question: if Slack implements async video and audio messaging, how would you response? What would differentiate Beseda besides the feature?
Lida Ovchinnikova
@gucci_ming Good question! Of course, we don't think that Slack will miss this opportunity. And it only shows the urgency of the problem. Even if Slack will add this feature, it's initially built for text communications. Video and audio are not just information providers — they are useful artefacts, agreements, and information that needs to be stored and quickly navigated through it. From the beginning, we tuned in to this approach and all our features will be aimed at simplifying both communication and collaboration
diya bedi
This is brilliant and so time-saving while working. Focus keeps diverting when in meetings. Beseda’s best feature of being able to send recordings directly to the concerned person is a game changer. Appreciate the free option!
Elsa Hoffmann
I’m amazed. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Great idea that allows sharing product updates without infinite amount of meetings for the whole team. Nice design, it’s very telling of founder’s design background. Good luck, guys!
Dan Melnichuk
@elsa_hoffmann Thank you, Elsa! It's nice that you like design - we really want people to enjoy using our product 🤘
Dmitry Samokhodkin
Congrats! Useful product in perspective market. Сurrent communications tools are outdated, asynchronous communications are new kings Great UX/UI, get a lot of pleasure
Lida Ovchinnikova
@dmitry_samokhodkin1 Thanks, Dima! The future is already here 🪐
Dan Melnichuk
@dmitry_samokhodkin1 Thank you, Dmitry! We hope that we can make a difference 🪁
Ana Bibikova
Wait, what?! No more annoying switching between Slack, Loom, and Zoom? 🔥 This is great!
Ilya Kuleshov
@anab, totally agree! Thanx!
Pavel Votchitsev
Together with my team we used to test remote-video-tools. This one looks like fresh and finally not only "usual scenarios in the network". Let's make video great again)
Dan Melnichuk
@fasimba We hope we do!
Linus Aarnio
This looks awesome! Encouraging async communication creates a much better work environment in distributed teams, and your landing page made me smile 😁
Ilya Kuleshov
@linus_aarnio, thanx! We deeply believe in async communication