**👋 Hey PH community!** Thanks so much for dropping by our first ever PH launch! We’re super excited to be able to share Verbally with the community and would really appreciate any honest & constructive feedback that you have! **🐣 How we started** We’re a pretty young company, formed in 2021, with a diverse range of nationalities mainly located in bustling Berlin. We’ve all worked at companies before where we’ve faced frustrations in our daily meetings, which took over a significant part of our time at work. Whether due to a lack of structure, communication misunderstandings, or a general feeling that you don’t have a chance to raise your thoughts amid all the noise! 🙄 Studies show that up to 50% of our time in meetings is wasted. It’s not only killing productivity, but this can also be super frustrating and demotivating. We reached out to more folks in that boat and were able to validate some of our pain problems, which were even more exacerbated with the switch to remote & hybrid forms of working during the pandemic. 😷 And so, we set out to solve the problem that we are all facing: **Unproductive meetings**. We thought there must be some way to improve meetings and culture in the workplace, to empower people to gain some more structure, and to have an unbiased helper to nudge people into better meeting etiquette, regardless of whether that’s in an office or at home. 🌎 **💜 Verbally: Your little meeting helper** Everybody needs a little help sometimes, especially when it comes to those pesky meetings. That’s where Verbally, your virtual assistant, comes into play. It supports you in all of your meetings whether it’s online or hybrid, a 1-on-1 or a weekly demo, on Zoom or Google Meet, Verbally’s got your back. **😻 Here’s some of your favorite features** 😅 **Start a Meeting with a Smile:** Break the ice with funny & motivational gifs 🎯 **Stay Focused:** A visible agenda creates focus & ensures you don't forget anything ⏳ **Time is Precious:** Stay on track with your overall meeting & add timers for each topic. 🙊 **Meetings not Monologues: Our Speaker Timer gives** a friendly nudge to overly talkative folks, so that you don’t have to 🎬 **That’s a Wrap!:** A heads-up message 5 minutes before your meeting is about to end so that you can finish on time & have clear steps to move on **** (Google Meet only) **🕵️‍♂️ What’s coming up next?** In the coming months, we plan to drop: 🗓 Calendar Connector with Google Auth - no more remembering to invite our assistant each time 🤓 Meeting insights & tips for improvements 🔥 Customizable backgrounds: show off your company’s branding with your own custom backgrounds 🚀 **So give Verbally a spin, and please let us know how you get on!** Verbally is **free to use**, with no installs, credit card details, or asking for your mother’s maiden name. [Sign up on our website](http://verbally.io) and invite our assistant to any meeting in Zoom or Google Meet, it’s really as simple as that! 🤲   Your feedback really goes a long way in helping us blossom 🌻 So please let us know how you get on, including any parts you may have loved, hated, or even longed for! 🙏 Thanks for spreading the love & for all those who supported us in getting here today 💜 Robert

Congratulations, Robert! We designed this feature too, but your UI is much better than ours! It's also smart to resolve data from event details to use as the agenda timer. Interested in seeing how you handle control during the meeting, such as pausing the agenda or jumping to the next agenda.

Great job, Verbally would have saved me hours and hours in the past...Using it whenever we have zoom or Google meetings now!

Awesome, congrats on the launch! We've been using Verbally for quite some time now and is has helped us improve the quality of our huddles and meetings. Looking forward to your journey 🚀🚀🚀

Amazing tool @robert_schuetze, congrats on the launch! 🎉 Can't wait for the 'Calendar Connector' - would definitely make a difference if I wouldn't need to add the tool to the participants each time manually. I personally wouldn't mind installing something, but I agree 💯 that those tools should be low-touch and not interfere with users' existing work-flows. Keep it up 🙌

great job team Verbally! We at Collato are power-users...

Congrats to the launch. Looks amazing and will use it! Best

Verbally is a great tool to ensure meeting schedules are being followed and we have found it to be a strong nudge for meeting owners to set up agendas constantly and generell prepare better. Keep it up!

Simple yet effective. Best feature for me probably is the speech timer. More discipline in meetings. Now annoying everybody to also get it :)

I definitely need this 🙈

I've got a collection of team productivity software tools in our toolbox, but very few I use frequently (Miro and Notion to name a few). When we got our hands on Verbally for Google Meet & Zoom, I immediately knew the rest of the team would also embrace it. I don't know how we had been able to go through conference calls without it! Great work, Verbally team! I cannot wait to try out new features you've got coming up.

Hey! Great launch! Congrats team! In love with the design. Looks super clean and user-friendly.

Great tool. Congrats for the launch!

Already using it for all meetings in 200 ppl org, love the tool, makes meetings so much more productive and cant wait for what is still to come wrt features!

Congrats on the launch! Verbally has helped us at Codepole a lot with our online meetings. All best! :)

Congrats Rob! Looks amazing!! All the best!!!

I love using Verbally at work. It takes literally 30 seconds to set up and in return you get a seamless way to organise meetings and lead through a solid agenda.

Cool product, congrats on the launch!

Congratulations on the launch! Meetings take up such a big chunk of our work days and therefore I’m super happy that verbally helps us make meetings more efficient, fun and inclusive. 🎉

@robert_schuetze Congratulations on a super debut! We look forward to the new features. But already your product is improving our meetings via Google Meet. Greetings from https://useme.com/ team!