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

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

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?

Rock makes me more productive I work with my clients. Formerly, I used many different products to manage tasks, messaging, notes, file sharing, etc. I can easily invite my clients to Rock and create a workflow for everyone who needs to follow. It's not easy only for me, it's also easy to use for new users. They're easily adopted to use Rock because it's designed well. And it's free! Most of the productive features are free to use, Rock really supports freelancers (like me) with their free features. I'm using Rock for 1,5 years and I am never disappointed.

Hi, I used Trello before, I have many comparisons now in the company and I think Rock is the best tool on the market. It helps me focus on the most important things, because I have everything in one place, do not need to juggle and can quickly invite others.

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?

I LOVE Rock! It's basically like Slack with a easy to use project management system built right in to keep everything (chat, tasks, trello-like boards, files, notes) in one place. So no more communicating the same thing a million times in different apps. Been a game changer. And it's not super complicated like some other well known apps in the space. Proudly support!

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

@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 🙌

I use Rock with my team and my clients every day! I had so many problems with Slack; Rock is so much better! And it's awesome that I don't have to send my clients to five different places to access messaging, documents, tasks, etc. It's all in one place!

So excited to see Rock here on PH sharing all the updates that rolled out in the last few months! There’s literally no other team out there who has put as much thought into building something truly designed to make this new world we’re living in one where we can thrive both professionally and personally. Long live the mental sanity of having all your favorite apps and docs finally in one place AND the freedom, trust and productivity that only deep work and async-first communication can enable. I highly recommend any and all distributed teams to try it out right away, it’s a game changer - and free unlimited!! Huge congrats to @kenzofong @nicospijker and the entire team all over the globe 🔥

the ux looks very nice!

Congrats and good luck! Quite a beneficial set of features.

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

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

Great service constantly improving, great staff and vision and love the features! It is the only service my team relies on and it has been pitch perfect thank you!

Hey ?makers, where did the idea come from? Congrats on the launch! 🤙

Rock really rocks! Congrats on the launch :)

Congrats @kacper_n 🙌

Congrats on the launch!

Congrats on the launch! One year and so many changes! Looks impressive!