Roundup - Start a discussion forum for your team | Product Hunt

Start a discussion forum for your teamThe good people of Producthunt ❤️

I'm Manas, the Founder of Roundup 👋

Before I talk about what we have built, I want to take a moment to first thank @kevin for believing in us and hunting us .✌️ I also want to give a shout-out to my amazing team (@sushant_rahul, @richa_garg, @jitesh_kriplani1) for working tirelessly to make Roundup possible. You guys are awesome. 🙌

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Why did we start Roundup?

After spending many years building products & scaling teams, I realised that we often spend an annoying amount of time doing discussions synchronously. It not only causes stress & burnout in the team but also reduce their overall throughput. Think about it, every time we call a meeting or ping someone on slack — we are effectively asking them to take a break from what they were doing.

According to many reports, each distraction leads to a loss of 23 minutes before you can get back to your deep-work state

But is every discussion time-sensitive and requires interrupting others? No, right?

That's why we created an Asynchronous Communication tool where Discussions can happen in a written & meaningful manner without causing distractions. 💪

If I have to oversimplify our solution, then "Roundup is like Reddit for your Company ✌️".

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How does Roundup work?

📖 You can create a discussion forum for a specific project, team, or any other group you want to bring together.

✍️ When you have something to discuss, share, or ask, you can create a new post on the relevant discussion forum.

👯‍♂️ All members who are following this forum will be able to see your post on their newsfeed.

💬 Anyone can participate in the discussion by leaving replies. They can also upvote posts that they find helpful.

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Benefits of Roundup

📚 Discussions get documented in well-organised threads and don't get buried under casual chit-chat. Roundup provides a unique link for each conversation, which can be useful for reference or review later on. Discussions also have a clear title and can be tagged to their relevant context. Which makes it easily filter them out to find what you are looking for.

⏱ Discussions happen asynchronously and don't cause interruptions and distractions. You can come in at your own convenient time and contribute to ongoing discussions. This can lead to more thought-out and well-reasoned responses, as compared to real-time communication methods where responses are expected to be immediate.

😌 Discussions are threaded and easy to follow Roundup makes it easy for all participants to follow the ongoing conversation and build upon the ideas that have already been shared.

👫 Discussions are done in public, which benefits everyone on the team. Next time when someone asks you the same question, you can point them to the earlier discussion. Unlike DMs and ad-hoc catchups where conversations get easily lost.

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We believe that stress & burnout is a growing problem in our modern workplace and poor communication habits have a lot to do with it. That's why we have spent many nights and weekends building Roundup. It is our belief that it will help you create a more relaxed and productive work culture. We are also starting a Free Beta program for our early adopters with this launch. At this stage, we are just looking for "genuine feedback" to help us evolve the product and make your work discussions delightful. When we do start to monetise Roundup, we will also come up with special discounts for those who subscribe to our Beta.

So try out Roundup with your team and tell us what you think about it. 😇

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If you wish to follow our journey you can also join our Telegram community: https://t.me/+UQ7bDtzlyaphNGRl