Watercoolr is an app that helps you connect with other remote workers day and night across the world. Giving you easy access to socialise, collaborate or simply just 'be' around other people. Select which watercoolr room you want to visit and get connecting.
A big hello to the Product Hunt community! 👋 This is our first launch on Product Hunt!
The problem we wanted to work on was freelancer mental health in the pandemic. We sent out a survey and got 50 responses in less than a day. We found that the overwhelming top two issues impacting our group was social isolation and lack of productivity. We left open an option for people who weren't freelancers to answer and almost half our responses were from non-freelancers - but the results were the same. Social isolation and lack of productivity were still the top issues.
Here are some of the responses when asked what might help:
- Better tools to support community and interaction/dialogue
- Something that will help me find my community with whom I can be vulnerable with
- Accountability check ins
So we decided to create something that would help with both social isolation and productivity. We focused on virtual coworking. What currently exists is usually silent and often 1-1 and scheduled. As remote workers, we wanted something that we could drop into at anytime with options to actually talk to other people as well. Sometimes we wanted to get work done and sometimes we just wanted company and sometimes we just wanted talk with someone who got where we were coming from.
We're starting off with a silent coworking room, one with lofi music and a room for supportive chats and plan to add more as we learn about what our community wants and needs. There's a lot more that we want to include and improve!
Because we're all based across the world (India, UK + Australia), we used Watercoolr to support us building the app and it was really, really nice not to be doing our work alone as a distributed team.
If you think Watercoolr would help you - please check us out at https://watercoolr.app and register an account so you can help us build the next version! As a bonus, we'll be doing a session with our beta testing community on how we built the Bubble app without any code.
We would love any questions and feedback you have, this is for the global remote working community and we want to support you however we can!
Congrats on launch, accountability check-in idea esp in remote working environment is pretty needed. Is 1-1 or silent coworking rooms the only idea that is being worked upon, or is there anything else that you guys are planning with regards to accountability check-ins?
Hey Product Hunt folks, my team has personally faced this challenge of working remotely while maintaining productivity. We hope WaterCoolr will help you. We are still looking for beta testers and a lot of feedback. Thanks:))
It's been a while since I worked in an office, but I've missed the presence of colleagues and the incidental interactions. Also love that I can choose between different levels of interaction! 😊
@andrewwearring The choice of different ways to interact is one our favourite features so it's great that you've singled that out. Let us know if there's anything else that you'd like in the experience.
@cathyraffaele The only thing missing is being able to visit the coffee shop with someone for a break! ☕ If I can think of anything serious I'll post. 😅
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