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Ankith Harathi

Macro Beta - A customizable meeting interface, built on top of Zoom

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Macro is a customizable meeting interface built on top of Zoom, reimagined for collaboration and inclusive conversations. Same Zoom links, same people, same meetings - but now so much better.

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Linus
This sounds exactly like what I've been looking for. Can't wait to try
John Keck
Maker
@linusgeffarth if you're on macOS you can try it right away at https://macro.io!
Linus
@rjkeck2 the whole team's on macOS! 🙂
Ankith Harathi
Maker
👋😸Hey Product Hunt, I'm Ankith - one of the makers of Macro! We've been building Macro for the past ~6 months and are so excited to finally share it with you all today. We used the relatively new Zoom SDK as Macro's foundation, which allows us to wrap the entire Zoom experience within our app and completely control + customize the meeting UI without having to worry about audio/video infrastructure or scalability. We're launching Macro today with a few features that re-imagine the meeting interface for collaboration and inclusive conversations: 🔗 Launch from the same Zoom links - any Zoom link you click will launch you right into the same meeting, now through Macro 🗺️ Airtime map - visualize in realtime the distribution of speaking time across participants in a meeting 🎨 Custom views - change Zoom's video UI to adapt to the style of meeting your having 📝 Outcomes - takes notes right in the meeting interface, categorized with shortcuts. Macro auto-creates a Google Doc in your Gdrive for every meeting and syncs all your notes in realtime to this doc thats instantly sharable with your team. More integrations coming soon! You can use Macro yourself, with your team still on normal Zoom - they don't need to switch. Best of all, Macro is free and available to everyone on macOS for download today. No waitlist. https://macro.io We're a small team of four, recently five, engineers who would love to hear your feedback on how we can make Macro, and your meetings, better. Thanks for reading! ✌️
Akhilesh Balaji
This is amazing! But I use Windows 10, and I can't use it. Will you be adding Windows in soon?
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@akhilesh_balaji Thanks! And yep - we use Zoom's Electron SDK so we're working hard to bring support to more platforms soon.
Akhilesh Balaji
@aharathi Okay, cool! Keep up the amazing tools!
Viraj Chavan
@aharathi I hope you'll bring it to Ubuntu/Linux as well! :)
James Skarzynski
Congrats! I'll definitely try this when I get back to school.
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@jamesskarzynski We used it for our last few months of school and found it made online classes slightly more tolerable 😉
Georgia Quaddy
Love the points you make around encouraging inclusive conversations 🙌️ The airtime feature looks amazing! Good luck with your launch! 🚀️
Rossi Meacham
Matt Bilotti
I've been using Macro for the last month now and it has added an amazing layer for note-taking and awareness of who is speaking throughout the meeting. No longer is my desktop cluttered with text-edit documents! So excited to see this team continue to build out awesome feature sets. The founding team cares deeply about the UX and it shines through with how polished this launch is. Great job, team!! Looking forward to all future updates! Would highly recommend anyone reading through these comments to sign up and check it out =)
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@mattbilotti Thanks Matt!! Keep the feedback and bug-finding coming 🐛
Leo Selie
Ah, this looks interesting. Can you tell me a bit more how this is free? Is this something still in active development and later will require a monthly fee?
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@leo_at_zapier Great question! We're very early and in active development, so prioritizing learning over monetization. There will always be a free version of Macro - the plan is to eventually add paid 'pro' features for individuals / teams!
Pascal Brisset
Hey @ankith_harathi, I just downloaded the app on MacOS and went through all the steps (preferences, etc) and now when I launch the app it just crashes :( Any ideas why? Very excited to try.
John Keck
Maker
@pascal_brisset sorry about that and thanks for reaching out with this. It looks like there is an edge case bug with some Google Calendar API events that I was able to fix just now. We will be pushing an update out shortly!
Pascal Brisset
@rjkeck2 Wow! Thanks for the prompt reply and fix. I'll keep you posted on the outcome and would be happy to share some screen shots or system logs if need be :)
John Keck
Maker
@pascal_brisset Alright, we just release a patch that should fix the issue you were having. Could you download again from our site and try it now? Thanks again for being patient with us, we're still actively in development!
Pascal Brisset
@rjkeck2 It worked! You da man!
Mat Vogels
I'm honestly surprised this isn't #1 today - It's one of the best products I've used in a long time! Where so many players are looking reinvent the likes of Zoom/Slack/Chat/Video apps, I think the winners are products like Macro that make the existing winners in these spaces better. Nice work @aharathi and team!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@matvogels comments like this make our day!! Thanks so much for the kind words. Let us know how we can make Macro even better for you.
Dean Apostolopoulos
This is awesome. Congratulations on the launch, this looks and feels brilliant. Can't wait to put it through its paces. GDoc integration is 🔥
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@dapostololopoulos let us know what you think after you play around!
Anshul Srivastava
Looks great!!!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@thefunshul thanks!
William Collis
I love this product! It's so cool and innovative, and such a phenomenal idea to enable collaborative conversations and more efficient digital interactions. I'm a huge fan and can easily see myself using this type of tool throughout my entire business organization! One of the best digital interactive tools (and concepts) I've seen in a long time!
Damjanski
<3
Philip V. Ariel
Hi Ankith, Thanks fort sharing this new product, looks like a timely one, as many use Zoom these days. Will back soon. Keep going. All @ankith_harathi
Corey O
The collaboration view alone is worth to the download, especially if you don't have a 2nd monitor. I'm not sure I need anything else!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@coreyo we're big fans of that view too 💯
Jonathon Parsons
I've been using Macro for a few weeks now, it's great! Not only does it add a lot of value to my meetings, I'm also blown away by how quickly the product is improving over time. A testament to the hard work the team is putting into the product. Keep it up!
Devin Nash
Totally addicted to the air-time feature! Also, the 5 minute meeting countdown clock is a small feature but something I'd been looking for - really helpful.
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@devin_nash making sure you're not late to your next meeting! 🏃‍♀️
John Bracaglia
Love it! This has been super helpful for me, particularly the airtime!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@jabracaglia Thanks John! excited to hear your feedback on some new features we have in the works.
Netra P Rajinikanth
Way to go!!! Exciting!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@netra_p_rajinikanth Thanks Netra!
Mar Hershenson
Super powers for zoom!!! Such a great tool