Hello Product Hunt👋! We're excited to share with you today Kosy : a virtual space where remote teams can work and hang out in! Over the last year, we spoke to thousands of you working in collaborative teams ranging from early-stage startups, product, engineering and learned what was needed to build connected remote teams. We heard that it was necessary to bring fun & excitement into virtual interactions, make it more natural and easy to get in and out of conversations, and have those interactions in a space that feels like a space. Over the last year, we've been working hard on Kosy and are excited to put it in your hands today to help you find the right balance between work and fun and build camaraderie & trust within your remote team. Our product & key features 🕹 HD Spatial audio-video chat: Start a conversation by walking up to a teammate with your arrow keys. The closer you are, the louder you will hear them. 🌐  Fully customizable spaces: Make your space your own and customize it with a variety of objects & themes. 🗯️ Interactive rooms: Pick from a variety of rooms, each with different functionalities including meeting rooms, stand-ups, 1-on-1s, and focus corners. 🖥 Various work & play integrations: Make your team more productive & cohesive with one of our integrations including whiteboards, screen sharing, Youtube, Miro, Google Drive, Figma! How teams currently use Kosy 🆙 Stand-up/team sync: Instead of running your stand-up via Zoom, just gather round in a circle to take turns sharing your updates. No awkward "who's next" and afterward it is easy to break out into smaller groups for follow-up chats. 👫 Team co-working: After a morning stand-up, many teams like to sit together in their team room for some co-working time (for at least a portion of the day). If you have a question - just unmute and ask your teammates. 🤫 Focus session: Declaring your intentions for what you need to get done and getting paired with someone else creates accountability and increases productivity. You can run focus sessions in Kosy as well - just pick a colleague, a time, and get to work! ⚡️ Quick questions: It is often much quicker (and more fun) to chat with someone over audio/video than sending dozens of messages over Slack or Teams. If a colleague is not busy and sitting at their desk, you can walk up to them and start talking right away. 🥳 Social chats: Elevators. Coffee machines. Hallways. These are all artifacts of the physical office that lead to social interactions. While Kosy cannot make you a real coffee, we've built other virtual triggers that drive spontaneous chats. For example, when you see a colleague enter the social lounge, you know they are open for a conversation. Our team Fun fact: We are a fully remote team of 10 distributed all over Europe. Most of us have never met in real life and my co-founder and I @sam_meurs1 met over Reddit at the beginning of the pandemic! We are all meeting for the first time for our Christmas event in December in London). We’re opening up Kosy for free today as we gather feedback, hoping to help teams working remotely get closer. Kosy is web-based so no need to download anything! We are all very much looking forward to your feedback! The Kosy team!

Good luck! Nice to see more products for a modern hybrid work, not only for a current meeting platforms like Sembly Personal, but also for entertainment like a Thursday and now a new meeting platforms itself.

Love the idea! I have tried several virtual hangout tools - they all have the same killer, which is large number of participants. Our company once has 10+ people joining a circle to hangout virtually with video call and our chat barely survived. Hope Kosy solve this issue :)

Super excited about this !! We’ve been using Kosy for a while now and my calendar has just cleared up, if I need something from a teammate I walk on over (or take the ufo) and tap them on the shoulder, have a quick chat and we both go on with our days. Also, there is a duck 🦆

It's curious how no one mentioned https://www.gather.town/ How do you differentiate from them? Kosy seems les "geeky" from what I've seen

I really like the idea and the design looks great! Congrats on your launch @yanismellata @sam_meurs1 and the team :)

I love that it doesn't try to mimic the real interior but rather is cartoony. I've been using Around lately for meetings with my team, but having looked at your feature list, I'm definitely going to give it a try! Also seeing @benln hunt you gives additional credibility ;)

Great product! Integrating the settings for a adjusting the moving speed of the charakter would be a nice improvment.

I’m excited about this new type of service, but how does Kosy differ from existing ones? ?makers

I use Kosy outside of office hours as well, with my friends to hang out and play games. It really makes things easy and natural; my friends love it too!

A really nice in between where we are now and the inevitable metaverse. Congrats on the launch and number one on Product Hunt 🎉

I had meetings in an early version of Kosy, which already worked great. This new design looks even more fun and... cosy ;)

Very excited to launch Kosy and share it with the Product Hunt community 🥳 Looking forward to your feedback!

I am really excited to see and use this product! Remote team always miss this kind of interaction and it will surely make remote work more fun!! All the best team!!

Special audio-video engagement makes it much more lively! I am a kind of person who will be productive at work when working IRL or at a co-working space when you get the feeling that you are in a WORK environment together with your mates and not at HOME. Kosy seems to address this problem to help people like me become more productive even when working remotely from home!

Wow!! very much needed nowadays, will be implementing this with my team for sure! I love working remotely, but sometimes, things need to get talked over ASAP and this is an awesome solution to it! Cheers team 😄

The team at @subspacepowered is all about this. Let's partner up! And please take over my weekly recurring meetings.

Wow, congratulations to the idea and realization! As a selfemployed person who is not working with a team regularly it would be nice to have some kind of public (digital) coworking spaces. Where to meet other co-workers as well. Discuss things for example.

It's pretty amazing to sign into Kosy every day - we are all in different places, chatting to different people, rocking a new selfie. It brings excitement to day to day remote working. Proud of the team here and excited to keep pushing Kosy forward!

Looks amazing. What are the next features you plan on releasing?