Cosmos Video 2.0 - Everything you like about going to the office, from home

Hey ProductHunt 👋! We’re @karan_baweja1 and @rahul_goyal, co-founders of Cosmos Video. 🧑‍🦲👳‍♂️ Our history We’ve known each other for 14 years. Before Cosmos, we went to engineering school together, attended business school together, lived together, and built and sold our first startup together. Cosmos is our second startup. 🤗 Why we started Before the pandemic, we were leading product teams at Citymapper and Wise in London. We used to love going to a physical office - it allowed our teams to build culture, communicate fast and share context. Sharing a space with our teams meant bumping into each other, which led to casual conversations and created a sense of belonging. We missed this way of working, and wanted to create a product that captured the benefits of being in an office, while working remotely. Last September, we set about building virtual spaces that replicate physical offices by combining video chat with a Minecraft like game. 🙀🥳 The journey so far We hadn’t realised the difficult task we had signed up for - you only realize these things with hindsight. When we started, we had no idea how game development works. We learnt from scratch what sprites meant and how the virtual world was created, what WebRTC is and how complex building video tech is. A year since starting our journey, and after a lot of perseverance, we’ve built something that we feel works and can be showcased to the world. 😜 What you’re all thinking There are products similar to us in the market such as Teamflow, Gather Town, Mibo etc. We think everyone is trying to figure out the right UX and feature set. While there are undeniable similarities, each company has their own take on the user experience and features due to their own experiences with their respective user base. Our focus throughout has been on delivering the best virtual HQ experience out there. 💡 How to introduce Cosmos to your team? 1. Have regular meetings (such as standups) on Cosmos, after which the team naturally breaks into smaller groups to discuss.
 You can use whiteboards and apps integrated within Cosmos such as Google docs, sheets, Figma, Miro etc. 2. Socialise during happy hours or lunches - Cosmos is perfect for doing socials. Your team can move around, naturally break into groups and move in and out of different conversations. Cosmos has 20+ games (1-player, 2-player and multiplayer) - Pong, Gartic phone, Jigsaw, and Who said it best are some of our favourites. 3. Virtual HQ, all day every day - Sit with your team on a shared desk, hold meetings in meeting rooms, walk up to others to ask a question or casual chit chat. 🎉 Cosmos is free for teams of 10, and for larger teams, the first month is free. Cosmos supports upto 150 people in an office, and meetings can have upto 35 people. Thanks so much for checking us out, we’d love to hang out with you! We have set up a special space for product hunters, come talk to us here.

Our whole (7) has been using Cosmos for the last few months after we decided to really invest in a remote first culture. It's been amazing. Everyone has enjoyed being in the space and it's given us a greater sense of 'togetherness' for our remote team. We even bring customers into our office for meetings sometimes and they love it too. Rahul and the team have been super responsive about listening to our feedback and are currently building us a custom designed office! We look forward to continuing to use Cosmos and see where it goes next. Keep up the good work team! 🚀

Cosmos has been a great add to our partner stack for virtual meeting solutions. My team uses it daily at Lunchpool and has started offering it to our customers - we're in our cosmos space like a real office. With the added flexibility allowed by remote working, it brings engagement that no other platform has been able to nail down. BC of their games and a few other features, the adoption on my team and those we are selling it to has been very strong.

Cosmos will give you that fulfillment feeling being at your own virtual office head quarters once again with all your office mates from anywhere remotely. Testvox, a team of 40 have been using Cosmos from the last couple of months

Puts a smile on my face every time I log into Cosmos to start my day. What other product can do that?

Super nice UX, has all essential collaboration tools and easy to use! Congrats on the launch :D

This puts the fun in a work from home setup! 😍 Got me really excited, deserves an upvote! 👍

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Really exciting space, great product

Checked Cosmos today for a team lunch -- we really enjoyed the experience and the idea of us being able to play the games is amazing. Had lots of fun. We discussed it within the team (we have only four people) and decided to give it a try for the stand-ups and other meetings as well. The whiteboard app is exactly what we lack in Zoom.

Congrats guys!🔥 It's such a great product for remote teams

The Cosmos Team created a virtual version of Phoenix Court (our office) on Cosmos, and we LOVE using it when we can't all be at Phoenix Court together and for our virtual meetings :) Congrats team on a great product!

Cosmos has significantly improved the level of engagement and the culture around our (now virtual) office. The interface is beautifully simplistic and the 8-bit aesthetic creates a fun atmosphere whenever team members/guests enter the space. The ability to work functionally within the platform is the closest replication to an in-office environment that I've found and the team loves the ability to break off for a quick game during our breaks.

@bramk thanks for hunting us, appreciated!

It's really cosmos! Cool

game changer for remote-first teams. Keep it up guys!

Great product for remote teams

Amazing product! 🤩 I love using Cosmos! 💕 not only at work but also for socials. Congrats Cosmos team!

Used it for our small team of 4 engineers working remotely and we absolutely loved it 😍

We use Cosmos for our virtual office and it has been amazing for our team! Real time collaboration without having to schedule multiple lame zoom calls. It feels amazing to have a real office feel right in my home. So find myself sitting with my team all day so I can hear the background office chatter that I so miss. And the team at Cosmos is so responsive to our asks...amazing amazing job!!!