Butter 2.0 - Effortlessly run engaging sessions that people love

Hello Product Hunt 👋 I’m Jakob, co-founder and CEO of Butter. We’re like a superpowered Z**m that lets you plan, run and recap the most engaging sessions from one place. We’ve been astounded by the support we’ve gotten here on Product Hunt since we first launched in 2021 (and earned some Golden Kitty nominations too!) — and we can’t wait to show you how Butter’s evolved since then 😊 Fast forward to the TL;DR today: we’ve launched a desktop and mobile app, co-created awesome templates from our expert facilitation community, and launched next-level breakouts and an agenda planner that practically runs itself. And it’s still 10x as fun too! Huge shoutout to @chrismessina for hunting us again and again! 🌱 How Butter started When the pandemic hit, we started a consultancy to help companies build best practices on remote work. It was through running virtual workshops ourselves that we discovered two BIG challenges that remote facilitators faced: 1) A lack of energy 🥱 - It was WAY harder to keep participants engaged with tools like Zoom and Teams than it was IRL. These platforms were great for casual conversations, but terrible for collaborating. 2) Tool overload 🤯 - You had to juggle a ton of tools to plan and run a virtual workshop. You’d need separate tools for planning your agenda, running polls and timers, taking notes, using whiteboards like Miro, playing music from Spotify, etc. And that’s how we came up with Butter! 😍 Why Butter We’ve built Butter to be the most delightful platform for planning, running and recapping interactive sessions like workshops, trainings, sprints, townhalls, community events, and more — without the need to juggle multiple apps. We’ve built Butter with our community since day 1. They loved Butter, but they needed an easier way to plan their sessions and get started with Butter. So we cooked up new features to help them like: - Customizable agenda & activity templates from the best facilitators ( like this fun Nic Cage icebreaker and this Product Hunt picks collection) - A time-boxed agenda which you can prep with all the tools you need and can start with one click - Powerful breakouts that you can prep in advance with tasks and tools—and even observe what’s happening without jumping in! - Session recaps with autogenerated GIFs (here’s one from the Butter team!) - Improved engagement features like polls, reactions and music player - Ability to schedule sessions directly on Butter with a GCal integration - A more affordable Starter plan that starts at $14/mo …And so.much.more! 🔮 What’s next We’re working on improving our presentation and screenshare experience, growing our template library, and more engagement features to keep people coming back! We ship updates and improvements every few weeks, which you’ll get if you sign up. 💛 Share your feedback! We've had an amazing community of people that have helped shape Butter with us. We know how valuable your feedback is – help make our product even better by telling us what you think about it! 🤩 High fives, Jakob & the Butter team P.S. I promised our team that I’ll do anything if we hit top spots with this launch — so help us get there to see me covered in Butter (literally 😅)

Love the continued evolution of Butter — from #5 product of the month in April 2021 to winning several Golden Kitties... it just keeps getting better! The addition of templates, improved tools and integrations, and elevated breakouts makes this 2.0 release well timed. Looking forward to trying this out! And don't miss @jakob_knutzen1's AMA, including insights on the state of the video conferencing market post-pandemic.

Hey everyone! Congrats on the recent release of Butter 2.0 on Product Hunt! 🎉 I just watched the video above and got impressed that you decided to unite Jira, Google docs, Zoom, and more famous products into one. It's fantastic. What are you going to do next?

Hi team! congrats on launching 2.0 version! so many new updates! I'm impressed :) what's your killer feature in your opinion?

Workshops have significantly improved since moving to Butter 🤩 More engagement, less hassle for participants since they don't have to switch constantly between multiple apps and windows, integrations with the tools I love, and most importantly, clients say they have more fun working on Butter 🙌 Thanks @jakob_knutzen1, @mrchrisholm, and the rest of the team for putting together such an incredible and buttery product!

You don't love a product if you don't love the people who build that product. And from its community to its core team, Butter has managed to bring in one of most genuine and fun team in the world together. That culture is priceless, for that the trust in product already comes from the trust in the team.

Imagine a video conferencing and remote collaboration tool, designed to be fun and engaging. Butter bing, Butter boom!

Yay! Huge congrats on the launch! ⚡️ Butter has had such a phenomenal journey despite being in an especially competitive space and it was great to document a part of that journey last year for the Relay community. Much to learn from how inventively @jakob_knutzen1 and team approach things! 🙌🏾

Since the early times, I've seen Butter evolving with a precise vision to stand out in the video-meetings market, by positioning and targeting the workshop's niche. With a great sense of UI design to challenge UX hurdles, Butter still kicking the rock to get Butter and Butter! Congrats on the 2.0!

My day needs more fun products like this - LFG 🧈