Dive — Stop hating meetings

Hey Product Hunt, happy to be here! :) Thanks, @kevin for hunting us. Big <3. I've been working remotely for the past 8 years. I love the flexibility that it offers. In fact, I've worked out of 10 different countries and now manage a kid at home. I'm writing this post while sitting in a park and there are actual birds chirping in the background. It’s so peaceful. But there's something that still sucks. If I had to pick one thing I hate, it'd be meetings. I’ve done thousands of meetings and I can say that they will always be boring. So much so that after around a decade of virtual meetings, I've yet to encounter someone who says, "another meeting, yay!" Dive evolved with a very interesting journey. During the pandemic, a lot of us felt isolated and bored of staying at home. We tried solving this problem, with a (virtual) social space to host team-building activities. Our customers loved us for that, but we kept feeling that there’s a bigger problem out there. When we dug deeper, we found one that was yet to be solved. Meetings. Meetings were the problem! Meetings today are often considered a waste of time. They don't move the projects forward. After hundreds of conversations (and my own personal experience), here's why I think people hate meetings: 1. It could've been an email - people are clueless about why they’re even meeting. 2. Meetings are one-sided monologues. Designed for consumption and NOT collaboration. 3. They get hijacked where one or two people speak for the majority of the time. 4. People tend to go off video/audio because they feel that they have something better to do instead. 4. Meetings go off-track and hence run long and don't end on time. 5. People don't record action items or decisions, making the meeting pointless. 6. Meetings are boring without any soul. That's why we built Dive. So that you no longer have to settle for meetings that don’t work for you or your team. Here's how we solve this: Collaborate over meeting agendas in advance. No agenda, no meeting.✅ Timed agendas to keep the meeting on track.🎬 Include everyone with team polls, a virtual whiteboard, and dozens of apps.🎉 Take notes and track action items together.📔 See all your meetings, notes and action items in one place.📌 Break the ice and play fun games together during team meetings.⛳ Next level breakout rooms to make discussions productive. 📯 Secure and privacy-oriented, you only see meetings that you're a part of. 🔐 Meeting recaps with notes, and action items sent out on Slack and email. 💌 Integrate with Zoom, Outlook, Google Calendar and more. 🌐 What our customers use us for: weekly Meetings, one-on-ones, sales meetings, town halls, daily standups, brainstorming sessions, sprint planning and sprint retrospective meetings. There are hundreds of use cases. What's coming next: meeting transcripts, meeting analytics, Integrations with MS Teams and Google Meets, Integrations with Asana and Jira, and cloud recordings. So try Dive for your next meeting - we help make every meeting worth your team’s time. We’d love to hear what you like about it, what you don’t, and what you’d love to see next! PS: This wouldn't have been possible without our incredible team in the US, India, Canada, Israel, Italy, and Colombia. A special shout-out to each and everyone on the team who made this possible. PPS: Dive is free to get started and we have a free forever plan. We'll offer the first 250 signups 25% off on our Pro Plan!

Recording? We started finally using Around for all of our meetings, internet and external, once they launched recording, but not before.

Amazing! Big congrats on the launch! 🥳✨ Thank you for sharing your story and for explaining this great product in details! It seems that Dive definitely helps you breaking wall towards meetings, and truly makes them easier, joyful and interesting! 🤗🎇

I love how much the product has come along @angrezi_ ! You all really take an interesting approach to making meetings more fun and engaging :)

You have a lot of interesting and unique features - love the timer next to agenda items, interactive questions, and GIFs. Excellent job.

Great product built on the Zoom Apps SDK launched yesterday! https://www.producthunt.com/post...

Woow it looks so fun and creative! I think it's a good option for the ones have good sense of humor (lime me) :D

I love this! 😍 Looks super clean and FINALLY a timer that makes sense. I never like having too many apps open to do one thing, so I always end up not using external timers, or just end up screensharing stuff like Google Docs, whiteboard etc... looks like this is the perfect AIO solution for that! Do you guys have a zoom app or some way of integrating with zoom? Any plans for further integrations?

Hi @angrezi_ this looks like a promising product! I especially liked the feature where we could take notes along with a fixed timer and jot down the agenda beforehand. This could save a lot of time! Will definitely try it out with my team ✨

WOW, what an amazing product. Simple, collaborative and clear. Congrats, I am building something similar for sales and onbaording. This is an inspiration ⚡️

You guys have a good product, I hope that users will appreciate it, because lately on PH I meet a lot of applications for meetings, it is relevant these days :)

Congrats on the launch! looks amazing. side note, if you want a search bar like superhuman or zoom on dive, let me know :)

Hey @angrezi_ and all Makers, as I work a lot with meetings, calls, across different tools and many people, I find your Dive really amazing. The 6 pain points on the meetings you listed resonate a lot with me since we all struggle in managing attention, time optimization, the usefulness of many meetings, who should talk when, avoiding people hiding, having actionable items after a meeting, etc., etc. I like a lot the collaboration part, where you can share the notes during the calls, and send them automatically to the attendees afterward: it may sound simple, but it's crucial because it saves time outside the meeting itself as well. Also, another important aspect is the possibility to facilitate the participation, e.g. by setting timers or automatic alerts when someone talks a lot (and someone should stop him/her :)) or maybe to stimulate someone else shy to talk more, etc. Looking forward to the upcoming functionalities you mentioned, e.g. transcriptions, which is something that has a lot of demands. And regarding that, you can have a look at our product "One Transcriber" (https://onetranscriber.com - launching soon also here in PH), which exactly provides real-time transcriptions for meetings on every platform; it could be helpful and useful for Dive as well ;)

Love that there's an easy to way to keep track of Action Items - so important to make sure meetings are actually useful! The Section Timer features is also such a great idea... so many meetings would have been saved with this! Also gotta love the 🧊🔨s!

The magic of Dive is when everyone's videos start coming up because people are genuinely having fun - with the GIFs and Emojis! ❤️ Thanks, @angrezi_ and @heythisisom I hate the old days of being on google meets with everyone's videos off.

Dive made our meetings fun and purposeful! With all the games, sounds, emojis and agenda’s - I was able to bring in more people to meetings and be present! This is coming from someone who hates being in meetings and have been part of remote teams for 8+ years. Our team has lot of recurring meetings, it would be great to see a history of each meeting so we have accountability and transparency. Would also love a switch to toggle between dark and light mode!

Personally, Given that I have so many meetings, both for internal use + working with customers, Dive feels insane! Tried it a bunch of months ago & got hooked. The ability to add an agenda pre meeting, in the space where I will meet - feels non negotiable now. While we talk about habit change, dive somehow has enabled this change so much. It's Addictive to run planned meetings. Action items that too being shipped right to emails and slack is too good. As someone who always prefers to send MOMs to all, it's a gift! Planned 8 meetings for next week with agendas simply from one place! It's never been easier / smoother. Makers, any plans of having an integration with Google Meet ?

Looks clean and clear. I like how I can now have my all the meetings notes at one place and control over my meetings with respect to either completing my meetings on time or if i am going off track during a meeting. Love this Product

My teammates actually interacted for once in the dive meeting, thanks @angrezi_ for all the laughs we had 🥳

Congrats Nitesh and team! amazing to see Dive evolve :)