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by talksik 745 days ago
Re focus: yep I understand. I guard my own deep work time very well.

Here are concepts of the protocol that we poorly explain on the landing page: 1. You tune into you're top-of-mind folks. This set of people is different for everyone and it changes project to project. But it's generally only 5-8 people. If your device is ON and you are not in another conversation, these people (and any combination of them) can get to you instantly. 2. Other people have to send you voice messages. 3. When you press the play button, you only go through all of your top-of-mind peoples' messages. Then there is a filter called "inbox" for "others". 4. If you press the flash button on the keyboard, you are OFF. Everyone sees a "-" for you. You don't hear anything.

So in aggregate, although it doesn't seem so at first glance, I built flowy so that there is less noise. We following "less is more" principle a lot more than it seems. It's just the sound of your people: no notifications, no fake AI voice assistant sound. This being said, I realize that we do not do a good job of articulating how everything works, so we will make a full demo video at the end of the year.

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Please don't offer this product without including a way to just read the transcriptions.

I don't want to have to listen to recorded voice messages coworkers send me, period.

I don't think you're hearing how clearly people are trying to tell you they don't want this. We understand the product you are building. We actively don't want it in the places where we work.

I disagree. Being able to send a quick voicemail to other people in a small, agile team with high interoperability and trust would be invaluable.

For idea leader management types, this would be great for putting their inspiration down in concrete form and sending action items to their implementers.

But for large, boring corporate teams with little to no autonomy and even a scintilla of micromanagement? This would be terrible. I would quit any company with more than 100 people in it that forced this on me on the spot.