Hello! I’m a designer and co-founder here at Range. We’re excited to launch open signups today on Product Hunt! Range is all about helping teams work better together. And we knew the way to achieve that goal was to be constantly listening to our customers. So we designed Range in close collaboration with teams at Twitter, Coursera, WeWork, and more. I’d like to continue that tradition of listening to feedback here on Product Hunt. My co-founders and I will be around all day to answer any questions, and of course take suggestions too! I’m particularly interested in any feedback you might have on product design. Most of my design influence is from Google. I helped to design Gmail, Spreadsheets, Trends, and G Suite. I also started the Google Ventures Design team, where we wrote the book on Design Sprints. So I’m keenly aware of the power of great feedback. Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback about Range. Thanks. 🙌

Hey folks, I’m Dan, one of the co-founders at Range. Before starting Range I led engineering at Medium and before that was a software engineer at Google. During that time I turned into a complete nerd for organizational theory. I became fascinated with the potential for how software could better facilitate the interactions necessary to thrive in today’s complex workplaces. I hope you can see how today’s Range is a step towards that vision. Happy to answer questions and excited to hear your feedback.

I used Range for several months while leading a small product at Gusto, and really enjoyed it. I'm a big believer in simple daily status updates. You can do that with a daily Slack reminder, but Range makes them really straightforward and adds enough structure to make them easy to digest. I also really liked the daily personal questions that help the team get to know each other and bond. I'd recommend trying it if you work with a larger team.

Pros:

Focus on asynchronous, high signal updates & team health

Cons:

I'd love to see an integration to post my daily update directly from Slack (if they haven't implemented that already!)

Great video and congrats on the launch, @kowitz! Really like how you can pull the long term objectives into the day-to-day check-ins and meetings. Have you seen any interesting outcomes from the teams who use it when they look back at all the #objectives?

Hey folks! I'm Jen, the third co-founder at Range. I'm so excited to share our product with you! Range uses simple touch points to help teams improve communication, alignment, and connection. And I'm most excited about how it helps individual teammates. With Range, you have the information you need to drive your own work forward—without being micromanaged—and to connect with your team in a real way. 💚 Can't wait to hear your feedback and ideas for where we can go next!

We've been using Range for a couple weeks and I have to say it "brought us closer" in ways which are hard to describe. As the founder I have a better sense of what everyone else is working on.

More alignment with fewer status meetings... that’s something I can get behind! But I also like how Range is about more than efficiency, with features for fostering team culture & cohesion. Keep up the good work!

Helps break through the clutter of too much noise from Slack.

Pros:

Thoughtful way to get team members to bring their whole self to work.

Cons:

The team has to be bought into the vision.

This is a fantastic team who cares deeply about the product space. Been amazing to watch the product evolve and use it!

Pros:

Easy to keep tabs on what we’re each working on, standups are actual discussions and not just blank stares while thinking about your updates

Cons:

I can be better about contributing 😇

Hi Dan, Steph and Jen 👋🏽 (and others)

dan and braden are two of the most thoughtful folks in the game tackling an important problem at the right time, and very keen to see where this goes!

So excited to see this team -- some of the most empathetic, smart, thoughtful, and get-things-done people I know -- take on this important and impactful space!

I have not used this product personally (yet). But, having said that... I do love what this product is aiming to do. I believe communication can solve all known problems. And to that end, fostering a culture of "getting in sync" early-and-often with your coworkers is an antidote to wasted energy, lost time, and negative workplace dynamics and can drastically improve your team's efficiency, predictability, and level of happiness. Having the right tools to help facilitate communication, especially in a distributed environment, is critical for a team's success and there's plenty of room in this space for better tools. Also, (disclaimer), I've worked with Dan for many years and can say that he's a very thoughtful and empathetic leader. He's an extremely talented engineer and has rich background working with many teams, which makes him uniquely qualified to design and build a platform that solving this class of problems.

We have been using Range for a while now. It's great.

Pros:

an async standup app that actually works. Great also with handling structure and notes for reoccurring meetings. I love the fun questions.

Cons:

Nothing of note!

We've been using it on a fully remote team at SeatGeek for 6+ months and are big fans!

Pros:

Get to know teammates better, work transparency, fun questions, slack integration

Cons:

Nothing I can think of. We're big fans!

keeps our team motivated

Pros:

best productivity tool. Team is fantastic and cares about user feedback

Cons:

can't think of much yet.

Big fan. People have been working in this problem space for awhile, but this is finally done right. Cal integration, asana, files, etc.

Pros:

Exactly what I need from my team and what I want to communicate to them Nice how calendar is input right beneath standup notes

Cons:

Can't quite set who sees what (maybe you can do this by creating different teams?)

This is a smart, thoughtful team tackling one of the harder (and often unspoken things) in the workplace: Just how do you help teams move faster and stay close while doing so? The sheer love and care with which they engage with these issues (have a look at their blog for _actual_ interesting writing on the subject) and then the product itself speak to their very real wish to make things better for you and your team.

Looks sweet! Can't wait to give it a go.

This is amazing; especially for distributed teams. Love the "How we're feeling" feature.