Rock — Instant collaboration for startups, DAOs, and remote teams

Really cool concept! I know a lot of folks feel the string between using a task management tool and something like Slack, and i love how this brings everything together in one place. I also think the per space pricing model is really interesting, because it will allow you to scale as you add more users to your team. Does the space have permission controls? I see that you can have managers, but can you have observers in the space as well as editors?

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Kenzo, Founder & CEO of Rock, a collaboration platform made for how we work today. Now used by thousands of users in over 172 countries, we have made hundreds of improvements and changes over the past year that I'm excited to share with the Product Hunt community today. 🏢 Collaboration is a mess Collaboration tools like Slack, Trello, and Asana were built for a world where everyone worked in the same physical location and timezone. These products have been optimized for real-time and continuous communication, which leads to too much noise, loss of productivity, and the pressure to be online all the time. Today over 70% of startups are remote first and teams are more fluid than ever before. A typical project now includes freelancers, agencies, or is done as part of an open source community or decentralized DAOs. All of this requires not just a different way of working, but also a completely new productivity stack built for how we work today. 🤘 Bring order to chaos with Rock We are bringing sanity back to the way we work by solving the following problems:

Constant switching between different apps → Rock brings messaging plus tasks and all your favorite apps together in one space.

It's too much hassle to start working together → Instantly work with anyone with your own space.new link.

Collaboration tools are too expensive → Rock has no limits on the free plan. Radically accessible pay-per-space pricing on the paid plans.

🎸 Messaging and tasks together at last Messaging and tasks are at the core of what builders and makers need to get work done, so we've made them available in the same space. As teams use lots of other services we've made it possible to connect everything from Figma to Notion, Google Docs, and lots more so you can reference them within Rock. Rock is also multi-modal so you can pick and choose how you want to communicate. 📧 Stop settling for email You need to jump through so many hoops to set up a shared tool stack to work together, so in the end you just settle for the lowest common denominator (email, spreadsheets, fax machines :). With Rock, you can now share your personal space.new link or QR code to set up a group space with someone else within seconds. Want to try this out? Come say hi to me at https://space.new/kenzo 🌏 Radically more accessible and affordable Most tools have limited free plans and then charge a lot of money every month if you want to do just a little more. Rock comes with unlimited messages, tasks, people, and spaces for free, and we have pay-per-space pricing for power users. On Rock you do not pay per user instead you sign up for a paid plan and pay the same low price every month. 🎸 Stop slacking, start rocking Already using other tools? No problem as you can easily import from Slack, WhatsApp, Trello, Asana, Jira, and ClickUp and get your team up and running within minutes. Rock is available on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and web. ❤️ People love us Thousands of people and hundreds of teams already love Rock. Don't believe us? Check out the 1000+ reviews and the 4.8 ⭐ rating for our mobile apps or read how Rock is being used by software developers, freelancers, and creative agencies. ✅ Ready to rock? To celebrate this milestone we are running a special promo just for the Product Hunt community, which gives new users 3 months for free on our paid plans. With the PRO and TEAMS plan, you get PRO spaces, custom space.new links, larger workspaces, pinboards, and so much more! 🎵 Already a Rock user? We wanted to make sure you don't miss out on this promo so we have a gift for you as well. Fill in this form and 20 credits will show up in your Rock account: https://rock.so/yourock. Use these credits to upgrade Rock for free. 🏗️ Continue building with us We'd love to continue building Rock with feedback from the Product Hunt community. Join our community workspace 'The Future of Rock' to meet the team, provide feedback, suggest new features, share resources and so much more! 👉 Visit: https://space.new/w/1o2wzxo | 🔐 Use pin 8c4qae2bx5 to enter. Rock on! Kenzo

Hi everyone, Nico from Rock here! Super excited to see Rock live on Product Hunt today. This could not have been possible without the support of @kenzofong @wandile_mamba @burhanrashid52 @kacper_n @iqbalperkasa @tomasz_grzybowski @izabela_szotek and many other team members, users, partners, mentors & advisors, and others! 🙏 I wanted to take this opportunity to do a shout-out to everybody building a community or anyone who is passionate about building communities.👀 We've spoken with tons of community managers and members of open source projects, DAOs, and other projects to learn more about your day-to-day struggles: 1) Slack, Discord, and other messaging tools make communicating a lot easier, but can quickly become chaotic with no project management functionality. 2) It can be tricky to get everyone together and collaborating often requires hacky solutions or outdated systems. 3) Pricing can often be an issue as well as most tools require either expensive plans or put limitations on the free plan resulting in you losing messages/work. We think Rock can help, so let's connect if you're currently managing a community or thinking of creating one! 🙌 In return, we'll make it worth your while with resources and rewards to make managing & growing your community easier. 🚀 If this sounds interesting, let's connect on Rock: https://space.new/nicolaas Cheers and see you all around, Nico

Congrats on the launch. What's the biggest differentiator between Rock and Slack? I don' think Slack or Trello isn't build for remote teams at all. Even if they're not designed for it, they still work perfectly so far. So why should I switch my behaviour for Rock?

Great idea, looks close to acapela but with more collaboration capabilities. How well does it integrate into said apps? Can you import and react on comments within your Rock chats? And can you jump right into the different place in connected tools, such as a figma design or a notion page?

@kenzofong congrats on the launch. I really appreciate what you are trying to achieve with Rock, considering the competition and the hardships you have to face. Keep up the good work 🙌

Congrats on the launch guys! Great tool to boost productivity and provide a more organized working environment, loved it!

Congratulations on the launch! We've been looking for a tool like this to manage our marketing and social tasks among a team that is fully remote, and many members are part time. Excited to try it out!

I think you've done a great job of identifying some short comings of Slack, Trello, etc.. and optimized Rock to solve for those issues. Specifically, your angle about them being optimized for real-time, continuous communication... so true! Congrats on the launch today @kenzofong and team. Beautiful product 👏🚀💯

I love rock! We switched our team to it a few months back and has been great. Leaving slack and trelllo in the dust.

Great product, congrats on the launch. I can totally relate to this problem. Collaboration is a mess, and it's true that slack actually doesn't work for different timezones.

Huge fan of Rock here, have followed Enzo's & team's journey since well before even the beta launch. Great to see this getting the recommendation it deserves - such an improvement over a Slack or Teams, IMO. Great job @kenzofong ! PS - hit me back in Rock sometime! ;)

@kenzofong Using Rock for a very long time, as a freelancer just want to say thank you, this app makes me and my clients very happy. & Helps us to easily communicate here instead of WhatsApp clusters

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@kenzofong Congrats on the launch! I was invited by Nico and tried Rock for a while. Love the concept of combining tasks and messaging together. One of the biggest issues of slack is everything is stacked next to next and I need to deal with tasks right away or gradually forget about them.

Is this something similar to clickup? Or an alternative for teams?

Our team uses Jira to handle project; so far everything works well except one thing—you can't just communicate with people on it, and it's frustrating when you're handling multiple tasks at the same time. We're actually looking for new tools to replace Jira, and I think Rock can be a good fit. Will share it with the team to see if we can give it a try.

This looks great and solves a couple of problem that I had with the existing tools. Will give this a try

Hey Product Hunt community! 👋 Super thrilled to be part of the launch today! From software developers like Metio Software to creative agencies like New Aesthetics, we have a ton of teams that are excited about Rock - check out their stories below. I work on a daily basis with people that want to help us spread the word and with that in mind I wanted to tap into the Product Hunt brain trust. Curious to hear if anyone has any ideas for partnerships or how to bring Rock to new audiences? Drop a reply in the comments below or hit me up at https://space.new/kacper1 If you're interested in learning more about the teams using Rock, check out these use-cases: Marketing agencies: https://rock.so/blog/how-creativ... Software development teams: https://rock.so/blog/software-de... Freelancers: https://rock.so/blog/freelance-w..."

Congrats on the launch @kenzofong, just wondering, you mentioned hundreds of improvements over the last year, any in particular that you recommend we check out or that you are most proud of?