Undesk

Undesk

Your virtual desk for max productivity

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Undesk combines collaborative virtual office & private productivity tracker. Try Undesk with your team. They'll come for the office energy. They'll stay for the personal productivity.
This is the 2nd launch from Undesk. View more
Undesk 0.1

Undesk 0.1

A virtual office for max productivity
Undesk 0.1 was ranked #1 of the day for February 12th, 2024
Undesk combines a collaborative virtual office & a private productivity tracker. Try Undesk with your team. They'll come for the office energy. They'll stay for the personal productivity.
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Launch tags:
Productivity•Quantified Self•Remote Work
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Yamato Kaneko
Maker
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Hello Product Hunt👋 I'm Yamato, building Undesk from Tokyo together with @sho_yasuda_undesk. When we launched Undesk Beta 6 months ago, we were nervous. Undesk is being built by just the two of us, and we weren't sure if it was PH-ready. But the community has been amazing and we have learned a lot from your feedback. One of the unexpected reactions from our beta users (this is my favorite part of the product discovery process😎) was the amount of feature requests for our productivity tracker. While they spend all day in the virtual office for ad-hoc voice chats and meetings, they come back to the dashboard several times a day to see their own time usage. Some users continue to use Undesk even when they are alone in the office, just to keep track of their activity. We have found that this feature becomes a strong incentive for teams to come back to the virtual office every day. So today, we are introducing the Productivity Score. It is like Oura Ring for work. Just sit down and do your work as usual. Undesk will automatically track and score your productivity. Rest assured, this data is a personal life log just for you and will not be shared with anyone🔒 We are not building a micromanagement monitoring tool. We're building a collaborative space to help you improve focus quality. We're just scratching the surface of the future of work, but we'd love your support. Dive in, explore your productivity potential, and let us know how we can make Undesk even better. We still have a waiting list, but anyone who signs up via PH today will get access before anyone else. Visit undesk.space and join us as we pioneer the next wave of remote work! P.S. This is what my productivity looks like preparing for this PH launch👇
Shruti Sinha
@yamatokaneko congratulations 🎉
Mohini shewale
@sho_yasuda_undesk @yamatokaneko It's fantastic to see how the community's engagement with Undesk has evolved over the past six months. The enthusiasm for the productivity tracker highlights its value in helping users manage their time effectively, even in virtual environments. It's a testament to your team's ability to identify and address a genuine need in the market. Keep iterating and listening to your users' feedback—it's the key to continued success! Congratulations on your launch and Upvoted..
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@sho_yasuda_undesk @mohini_shewale Thank you for your comment! Yes, we will continue to listen to our users and iterate as we always do!
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@shruti_sinha6 Thank you for your comment!
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@sho_yasuda_undesk @oumaima_acharki Thank you for your support! Will do our best!
André J
Elephant in the room question: Why do our remote-team need this? What is the benefit? We already use linear, slack, GitHub and google meet.
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@sentry_co If you're a 100% async remote team, like the famous GitLab, you probably don't need this product. But most teams can't keep up with documentation, are tired of endless slack messages, and overall speed is dropping. And they end up thinking, "Maybe we should go back to the office. We want to change that. We think working remotely can be better and should remain an option for many teams. That is a great question! Thanks for your comment!
André J
@yamatokaneko Remote vs Local is a big conundrum. You get more focus from remote, but your employee may start to drift their attention and god for bid have multiple remote gigs 😅. What are some of the positive effects you see teams get with your products? I assume you have been beta testing this with a few teams over the last year or so?
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@sentry_co I see 2 kinds of interesting positive effects. 1. The team basically lives there all day. All internal conversations happen in Undesk. It basically replaces Zoom and Calendar. Short ad hoc conversations instead of 30 minute scheduled meetings. 2. Some teams keep logging in with almost no conversation. They come to surround themselves with other avatars in action to feel like they are working side by side. They come to log their work habits to improve their productivity. Fewer teams are like #2, but they have strong retention. That's why we've revamped the Productivity Tracker features in this release.
Dave Lozanta
@sentry_co @yamatokaneko Thanks for the info!
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@sentry_co dl good
Rajiv Ayyangar
Virtual offices are near and dear to my heart, since I previously built Tandem I'm intrigued by the combination of a virtual office that can lower friction to talk with a productivity score...which can create incentives to be in focus mode and not talk. Do you find these are at odds?
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@rajiv_ayyangar Wow Rajiv! You are like the father of the virtual office! We got a lot of inspiration from Tandem! Thanks for your comment! And you are so right. We actually debated this internally and were kind of afraid to release it first. But it turned out that adding Productivity Score didn't change user behavior that much. Some people always wear Airpods in the office, no matter what. Some people always say, "Talk to me anytime." With or without the productivity score, they didn't really change (at least not yet). But since we can detect whether a user is in a flow state or not, we can probably show others that "it's not a good time to talk to me." In this way, we could reduce the incentive to go DnD while indicating the best time to talk. Super interested in hearing more of your thoughts 😄
Rajiv Ayyangar
@yamatokaneko that's a really cool thing to learn! Detecting flow state was something we talked about but never seriously prototyped. 🙌
Yamato Kaneko
Maker
@rajiv_ayyangar We're still in the very early stages, but it's working really well so far😀