Watercooler alternatives

As some of you may have noticed, Tribe shifted from asynchronous to synchronous messaging 2 months ago using fully in-house technology. Since then, the team has been heads down polishing this first prototype. We quickly realized that there are many pain points people experience every day when video calling others, especially from Skype and Hangouts. Ask anyone, people are not fully satisfied with these old (but legendary) products. Whether it’s kids at school, spread out families, or teammates at work, they all agree that they use these services by default. Here are the results of our experiments to improve the video calling experience. It’s available now on your mobile devices (iOS & Android), as well as from your desktops (Chrome & Firefox) where you can start a group video call in one click, without any account, for free.

Make it easy to discover people, meet in-person, and organize internal events. Boost IRL connection, engagement, and attendance — all in one place.

Remote teams, have you ever hosted happy hours on Zoom only to find it really awkward and boring? We totally hear you. Thursday is fun and refreshing - from fast-paced 1-on-1 chats on space colonization to charades to doodle race. Build strong connected teams!

Kosy is a virtual office to be more connected, social and productive where teammates can work, play, network and collaborate together.

Remotion is the video app designed for remote collaboration. Move faster when you spark more conversations where work gets done.

Macro is a customizable meeting interface built on top of Zoom, reimagined for collaboration and inclusive conversations.

Flow Club is an online coworking community for remote, independent & neurodiverse workers. Our mission is to provide accountability and structure to communities of people with similar work styles, needs, and goals so they can feel fulfilled and supported in their work.

Asynchronous Meetings, Voice Messaging, and Screen Sharing for Distributed Teams. Yac is an asynchronous collaboration platform for remote teams. On Yac, short-form voice messages from your teammates let you stay in sync without being derailed by a meeting. No links, scheduling or timezone management needed.

With Trivia, play real-time games inside Slack and Microsoft Teams as a virtual team building activity with quizzes, puzzles, polls and challenges.

Group video chat to help you and your friends be together when you’re not together.

Walkie is a better way for teams to communicate using real time and asynchronous voice chat.

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. Whether it’s fandoms or philosophy, fashion or felines, Tumblr is where your interests connect you with your people.

Asynchronous voice notes transcribed directly in Slack🎙 ✍ • Communicate quicker and w/ more nuance via voice • Transcriptions allow for easy skimming and searchability • Simple & quick UI to send via mobile or desktop • Free & available in 18+ languages🌍

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.

Open Slack, type your kudos message, tag your teammate and give your team visibility into celebration-worthy moments - appreciate the GOATs with optional gift cards, and boost company culture! _ /kudos @Michael Scott thanks for being the world's best boss!

Meet Doneit, a feature packed daily planner that focuses on simplicity and organization. 🚀 With Doneit, you don't need to worry about your tasks lists ever being messy because this app was designed to help you better organize all of your daily to-do's. 🗂️

At Knit – Your Virtual Meeting Place, we enable meaningful interaction between people during large online events.

This is no webinar. Host conferences, festivals, meetups, parties, workshops, and more in a colorful game-like 3D world. Camera shy? No problem. Use your mic to talk to others near you with our best-of-class 3D spatial audio. Done chatting? Just walk away.

Touchbase is a tool that supports remote teams to interact through live video and audio for discussions and meetings.