Yes that's really helpful. As a software engineer by trade, I totally understand wanting to maintain flow.
Someone else in the thread talked about how to find the balance between what's most productive for you and what's most productive for the team. I think that's going to be key for our users as well.
That's great feedback. Honestly, we haven't set up a team larger than 5 at this point.
However, I also believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people who you actually work really closely with. These units are probably the right grouping for who is in one room.
There is no actual max number, but I do think the design and the use case would fall apart right now. But there's some things we're thinking about like separate channels that might help with this.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we're going for a different use case than Facebook Portal or other dedicated hardware devices with video are. We're not just trying to make meetings easier and better, we're trying to simulate the magic of being in the same room.
We should have probably flagged the number of conversations in the original post, that's good feedback. We're on average seeing 20 new conversations per day.
We've built a bunch of other features that also maximize the chances you're not alone in the call. The reason this metric is important is because being alone is the reason why nobody wants to stay in the call. An example is Meeting Mode, which I bring up in the original post - it lets your teammates know that you'll be back in 30 minutes so people don't feel like they're alone.
We actually are working on the ability to talk to one person on the call as opposed to everyone at once. But that's a good flag and it's great to know it's a problem you identify with.
Thanks for the feedback. We actually talked to a bunch of teams that tried the Zoom on an iPad route and it usually failed because it was really hard to get the team in the same room. Sidekick does a really good job at maximizing the chances you're not alone -- I talk about some of the features in the original post.
Totally agree it's not for everyone, especially those users that are really happy with asynchronous work.
We talked to a bunch of teams that tried this. It's really hard to get people into the call at the same time. Eventually, there are enough bad experiences of being alone that people stop using it.
Sidekick's features maximize the chances you're not alone. Some examples are outlined in the original post!
Thanks for the feedback. We're definitely thinking about adding more privacy features.
We're on the same page that Sidekick isn't for everyone. It's great for those teams that want to feel like they're sitting in the same room. For these teams, that's what makes them most effective at their jobs.
Thanks! and yes we totally agree. Sidekick isn't for everyone. For the people that do miss being around others, we want to bring back some of that joy.