A virtual space where remote teams work and hang out in

Hello Product Hunt👋!

We're excited to share with you today Kosy : a virtual space where remote teams can work and hang out in!

Over the last year, we spoke to thousands of you working in collaborative teams ranging from early-stage startups, product, engineering and learned what was needed to build connected remote teams. We heard that it was necessary to bring fun & excitement into virtual interactions, make it more natural and easy to get in and out of conversations, and have those interactions in a space that feels like a space.

Over the last year, we've been working hard on Kosy and are excited to put it in your hands today to help you find the right balance between work and fun and build camaraderie & trust within your remote team.

Our product & key features

🕹 HD Spatial audio-video chat: Start a conversation by walking up to a teammate with your arrow keys. The closer you are, the louder you will hear them. 🌐  Fully customizable spaces: Make your space your own and customize it with a variety of objects & themes. 🗯️ Interactive rooms: Pick from a variety of rooms, each with different functionalities including meeting rooms, stand-ups, 1-on-1s, and focus corners. 🖥 Various work & play integrations: Make your team more productive & cohesive with one of our integrations including whiteboards, screen sharing, Youtube, Miro, Google Drive, Figma!

How teams currently use Kosy

🆙 Stand-up/team sync: Instead of running your stand-up via Zoom, just gather round in a circle to take turns sharing your updates. No awkward "who's next" and afterward it is easy to break out into smaller groups for follow-up chats. 👫 Team co-working: After a morning stand-up, many teams like to sit together in their team room for some co-working time (for at least a portion of the day). If you have a question - just unmute and ask your teammates. 🤫 Focus session: Declaring your intentions for what you need to get done and getting paired with someone else creates accountability and increases productivity. You can run focus sessions in Kosy as well - just pick a colleague, a time, and get to work! ⚡️ Quick questions: It is often much quicker (and more fun) to chat with someone over audio/video than sending dozens of messages over Slack or Teams. If a colleague is not busy and sitting at their desk, you can walk up to them and start talking right away. 🥳 Social chats: Elevators. Coffee machines. Hallways. These are all artifacts of the physical office that lead to social interactions. While Kosy cannot make you a real coffee, we've built other virtual triggers that drive spontaneous chats. For example, when you see a colleague enter the social lounge, you know they are open for a conversation.

Our team

Fun fact: We are a fully remote team of 10 distributed all over Europe. Most of us have never met in real life and my co-founder and I @sam_meurs1 met over Reddit at the beginning of the pandemic! We are all meeting for the first time for our Christmas event in December in London).

We’re opening up Kosy for free today as we gather feedback, hoping to help teams working remotely get closer. Kosy is web-based so no need to download anything!

We are all very much looking forward to your feedback!

The Kosy team!