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Tandem — A virtual office for remote & distributed teams
No - it's not VR, but it's the closest thing to in-person collaboration!
See who's available right now and what app they are working in. Talk and screenshare in one-click.
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@rrhoover Thanks! We are stoked - not just for Tandem, but for the whole remote tools space!
Congrats on Launch. Looks like an awesome way for distributed teams to stay connected while working. Id love to try it out!
@bmweinstein Thanks! And looking forward to your feedback.
Try it out at tandem.chat!
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With remote work on the rise, there's a growing need for more flexible, spontaneous, real-time communication. Tandem has put a lot of time into delivering a beautiful app that makes it dead-simple to talk with your team.
We have a distributed team at YC and it can be a struggle to stay in sync. Several of the partners have tried this and we've been extremely impressed!
@gustaf +1 Love Tandem! It has made our coms 3-4x more efficient. As a fully distributed team, we hop on calls a LOT more often.
@gustaf @bouazizalex 🙏keep the feedback coming and we'll keep making it better :)
Hi all! Bernat here, Co-founder and designer at Tandem.
Feel free to nag me if anything is confusing, as it will most likely be my fault.
Also, shoutout to any remote dads for being awesome. Being part of my son life (now 1 year) thanks to working remotely has been a blessing. Tandem was born out of the need to balance family life and high speed tinkering :)
@bernatfortet what an amazing reason to create this product. I was stuck with Skyping/ Hangout when my little one was, well little :). Congrats and all the best guys!
@bernatfortet remote dad here! My little one is 18 months - love working remotely so I can spend more time with them, and hope Tandem can help with that!
Thanks, Gustaf!
Hey PH community! 👋
We started building Tandem when two of us had kids and started working from home more. We tried a bunch of different tools, but hated the friction in all of them.
We've all worked on remote teams before, but even with our experience, we felt slower, less collaborative, and more alone when we worked remotely. We built a one-click calling prototype, added video and screenshare, and this eventually became Tandem.
Some details on how ⚡️instant calls⚡️ work:
- You can click on someone and talk immediately, but they will be on mute until they accept.
- All calls start as voice, but can be upgraded to video and screenshare.
- Customizable rooms are a nice way to invite teammates to talk when they're free.
Some details on app presence:
- Your teammates will be able to see which work app you're currently in (only for a select set of integrated apps) - this gives everyone a sense of being together, and helps you know when a teammate is interruptible.
- You can go into Focus Mode if you don't want to be bothered, in which case your app will not be shown.
Pricing: 14 day free trial, then $10 / active user / month
or...FREE for the Product Hunt community if you can hop on a short feedback call every-other week. This helps us learn, and we can also help you get more out of Tandem.
We are constantly improving the app, so tell us what you think. With your help, we can make remote work more collaborative and social! 🙏👥👌
-Rajiv (co-founder)
@rajiv_ayyangar do we have any official trial and pricing info on the home page tandem.chat? I can not find it
We're not a distributed team, so I am not sure if we're going to use it, but I will keep you in mind for future. The product sounds super useful.
@bernatfortet great website design ;)
one of those products that makes you go "wow" once you see it in action or use it... excited to see more remote teams give Tandem a go!
Changes the remote-team game. We use Slack and have tried all the tools and apps out there for running our teams (I have 2 companies: 1 with 8 and another with 3). This changes the game for communication. It's fast, it's reliable (once the initial setup bugs get out of the way), and just works.
You guys rocked this and meet our needs. Talking with a remote team member is now as easy as popping into their virtual office for a chat.
Wow, awesome to see this at the top of ProductHunt!
I was introduced to Tandem right before they changed the name from Wisp. Our team has been using it for about 2 months or so, and it has been a really nice way to start conversations.
Working remote, you find that there is this weird social awkwardness over starting calls or wanting a super quick call with another teammate. Tandem has the best solution for that problem from what I've seen thus far.
The team works hard and cares a lot about customer feedback which is awesome. Keep it up!
@averycarter Your feedback has been 👌super helpful! Keep it up and we'll keep making Tandem better.
Tandem is seamless and sleek -- it gets out of your way while you do your work and works well with most apps that I use with my team.
@anvishapai Thanks so much! Unobtrusiveness and sleekness are what we like to hear :)
I started using Tandem this week, can't complain so far. There's room for improvement but the seamless hopping in and out of rooms to talk is great and makes it feel very natural vs "let's schedule a call"!
@fanahova thanks for being a Tandem OG 😎!
We're super excited to start rolling out some of the things we've been working that will improve the experience a ton!
@bernatfortet @rajiv_ayyangar Now it worked, thanks! I`ll remove the gif above to keep your product hunt page clean, thanks.
@leonardo_mattar Thanks! and please, keep the feedback coming. It is so immensely helpful to make the product great. It's pure gold to us!
Looks really awesome, I love how refined UI seems. Quick questions: what is the main reason that you wanted to have this feature that shows what app people are using at a time?
@mmincer A few reasons:
1) We wanted to have a sense of presence - feeling like you're next to your teammates, but without having a camera on you all the time (like Sqwiggle). We found the work app to be an excellent way of showing presence.
2) We wanted to give each other a sense of availability, without requiring us to constantly update a status. So as a product manager, I can look over and see @iambetaful in VSCode / Terminal, and understand at-a-glance that he's coding and I shouldn't bother him.
Showing the app allows Tandem to do some really helpful things as well. If I'm on a conversation and Tim's talking about a document, I can use Tandem to go directly to that document.
Hope this answered your question, and keep the questions and feedback coming!
Thanks @rajiv_ayyangar , makes perfect sense! The feature with going directly to the document sounds super useful.
We've been using Tandem for a while now and find it to be a more seamless alternative to typing in '/call' in slack. The one-click connect is really sweet.
Slack's still very sticky for our team but a quick release of a Linux version of Tandem made quite the difference. Super excited to to see where this product goes!
Thanks @pj_mukh! We're super excited for the things that are coming up :) We'll keep you posted!
@pachanas Yes, we have a whitelist only policy. We also have a Focus mode for times when you don't want to share your app.
We use both Slack and Tandem heavily all day. Slack for notifications and non-urgent messages, Tandem for blockers and screensharing. We're working on also being able to jump into a Tandem call straight from Slack when you need to do standup or a voice chat.
Love the onboarding flow including the walkthrough. Very friendly. The idea of using always-on presence to make remote people feel closer is brilliant. Looking forward to testing it further.
@raphaelouzan thanks! Looking forward to your suggestions as you test it.
Congrats @rajiv_ayyangar and your entire team. This seems like such a simple idea when you read about it, makes you wonder if we need a product like this at all? But it all comes home when you see the visuals, and it becomes clear why something like this can be so compelling. Congrats again!
@bernatfortet the simplicity of it all. and how just with one click we initiate a collaborative experience involving video, screen/cursor sharing etc. what you have here, can be done elsewhere but as part of a sequence of steps.
@bernatfortet @debankanc glad you like it! Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions as you use it more!
Huge fan of Tandem so far! I heard about it through Bernat and think this is going to take distributed teams to the next level.
What I love about it:
- intuitive + beautifully designed UI
- simple + easy to use
- instantly connect to team members via video or audio chat
- instantly share your screen
I honestly feel like this is going to be a game-changer for working remotely. Excited to see the future of Tandem!
@jsjoeio Thanks so much for trying it out, and for your feedback and suggestions! This is only the start!
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