Kona 2.0 — Fight burnout, as easy as sharing an emoji

It’s been a busy few months at Kona. We got a lot of love and learnings from our last ProductHunt launch. I’m happy to say we’ve finally built all the features managers asked for! 🖥 Shiny new web dashboard for better health visualization and alerts. 📈 Insightful trends like team comparisons, individual deep dives, and more. 💼 Support for departments, so you and your boss and your boss’ boss can enjoy. 👯‍♀️ Kona Friends lets you stay updated on folks outside your direct team. 📆 Better support for 1:1s to save you time and help you help your teammates. We had a lot of growing to do since our last launch. Our first version was slower and clunkier, without much support for departments. Now we’re finally at a place where we can make cultural change at entire organizations and companies. That’s super exciting! I’m forever grateful for our growing team and for all the folks who supported us every step of the way. We couldn’t have gotten here without working closely with teams at Greenhouse, Coffee Meets Bagel, Happy Money, The Athletic, Postscript, and more. To thank this awesome community, we’re giving 20% department-wide plans for a year. Just use the coupon code PEOPLEFIRST when upgrading your plan or mention this deal to us during your demo. Let us know what you think of Kona 2.0! We’re thrilled to make teams happier and healthier. Cheers, Sid https://twitter.com/pandiyasid

This team is amazing and are just continually pumping out amazing features that are saving people’s sanity at work. It’s the little things like mood and burnout that get overlooked and can turn a happy employee into an ex employee when ignored.

As someone who was in charge of culture/HR at a young company this looks likle it would have been a life saver. Love the look. Will check it out :)

This is a fantastic idea, Team Kona. Congratulations on the launch @pandiyasid! Such an important focus, and more than ever with flexible working. Out of interest, do your case studies work with all sized companies and teams? Say from 4 person start-ups, to huge orgs? Really excited to see Kona fly!

Congrats on the launch! Incredibly excited to try out 2.0. Have had nothing but great experiences with the original product.

Massive kudos @andrewthezhou & team on launching Kona 2.0!!!! ✨💕 Super stoked to try it out and share :) What's next on the roadmap that y'all are most excited about?

I love the brand style on this launch its so friendly and welcoming! My current startup is just approaching its 6th teammate and given we're all working remote I can see the need for this becoming more and more obvious. What stage of companies do you feel Kona is the best fit for right now in terms of product focus?

Kona has come so far from the early days of just the three of you running around Startup UCLA with a barebones slack app. The UI looks so clean, and now that we're growing our team soon, Pearl is definitely going to start using it! Every team is going to need a Kona. (Btw ?makers I'm still waiting on the plushie merch store)

Kona is a lifesaver for distributed teams that have broad time zone differences. How in the world can you stay connected across those distances? Kona can prompt you daily to share a little of yourself, and then the habit can grow to true team transparency and psychological safety. What a great team, what a great tool: I’m incredibly grateful for the joy Kona has brought to the teams I’ve lead remotely.

Let's go Kona team! Congrats on another great launch that's going to help teams all over. Proud of you all!

We are huge fans of Kona at Aircall and it's been a critical piece of growing a happy and high-functioning team nearly 3x over the last 18 months with everyone remote. As we prepare to come back to the office as a hybrid team Kona is going to remain an integral part of our team's operating system to ensure team wellness & happiness, cohesion, and communication with part of the team in-office and part of team full remote.

Congrats on the launch of 2.0! Great to see y'all continue to crush it and make it easier for teams to take inventory of their psyche and check in with each other :)

As someone who just started a job where half the team is remote, I see the incredible value of a transparent and empathetic culture where everyone, even those far away, feels welcome and understood. I’ve had the honor to witness the team’s failures, growth, and continuous grit since its beginning in 2018 — and I am so excited for the future of Kona!! 🐶

This is rad! As a first-time founder, I had no idea of the importance of consistent team mental health check-ins until months in. I feel like similar to technical debt, you can also have mental debt that builds up and gets worse overtime. Love how your product easily incorporates these check-ins in a fun and consistent way. Thanks for building this! ⚡️

Went through Techstars with this team and they are legit!!! So excited for the world to experience Kona

Looks super exciting!! Congrats for the launch:) I am so much into digital wellbeing as well, hence I will definitely take a closer look to what your product offers!

Congrats @pandiyasid on the launch! This is really exciting, looking forward to getting to use Kona ❣❣

Always a big fan of Kona and the long-term mission and think this evolution will get you closer to what you all work tirelessly towards: helping support teams support each other

Awesome launch guys! So cool to watch you all iterate — this update makes it abundantly clear this team genuinely cares about making the work world a more empathetic place. Very impressed!

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