Justin Mitchell

Yac Meet — Create and share async meeting links

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Collaborate without burnout. Replace back-to-back meetings with voice messaging groups. No calendars, no video chats, just back and forth voice messaging groups. Meet on your own time and take back your calendar.

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Justin Mitchell
When we launched Yac in March of last year, our mission was to reduce the number of meetings teams had by simply having better, more inclusive communication throughout the day. We've shipped countless updates to the app and tons of new features, but at the end of the day, old habits die hard. People are used to sending meeting links. Yac Meet is the first of many ways the team and I are working to push new habits and new ways of working into your existing flows. Your team, investor, vendor, contractor, whoever, expects a calendar invite with a link? Well gosh darn it, we'll give you one. It's gonna be an async meeting though, make no mistake there. We firmly believe you don't need to be online, at the same time, and building your work day around your meeting schedule. Remote work enabled us to work from anywhere, but somehow didn't enable us to work any time. Yac is looking to change that. We want to enable teams to find a new way of working, free from calendars and schedules. The first step in doing so is eliminating those pesky meeting links that require everyone to stop what they're doing and tune into a video call for an hour. Think of Yac Meet like an undercover operation. To everyone else, it feels like the same old same old. Underneath that link though is an async voice messaging channel inside of Yac. You don't even need to be a Yac user to send a link, accept an invite, or participate in the discussion. Yac Meet lets you quickly generate Yac Channel links, along with a topic and description, and even add it to a calendar event right from the tool. You can send invites directly from the app or just paste the link into Slack or an email; it's really up to you. Meetings need to happen, but they don't need to happen in real time. Async meetings enable a new level of inclusiveness that is often overlooked at startups. Not everyone on your team is comfortable chiming in during your video call. Not everyone wants to even be on a video call or give you a portal into their personal space at home. Most importantly, teams are global now. You can't wake up your engineer at 2am to participate in a standup, and at the same time you also can't run the meeting without them. Next time you need to send a meeting link, use yac.com/meet to make it async.
Justin Mitchell
@darrenmurph thanks for all your support along the way!
V Keerthi Vikram
@jmitch is one of the best founders I have come across taking both Yac and Newton Mail far far ahead, and will keep on growing them. Espescially Yac IMHO can become something like clubhouse for Professional Meetings.
Justin Mitchell
@vicksu thanks so much for the kind words
Shashank Polanki
Wow, this is big! My co-founder and I still spend up to 2-3 hours with our huge weekly meeting even though we use Yac for sharing ideas/progress. We save up big discussion points for the meeting but our video call meets don't necessarily even yield the best ideas and plan of action due to fatigue after the first hour. I'm excited this will allow us to get more async meetings going on focused topics and make us 2-3x more productive! Love it guys! Out of all the new products I've used this year, Yac would be the one I'm on most frequently (more than clubhouse)
Justin Mitchell
@shashank_polanki1 Thanks for being such an early supporter man
Calum Webb
Love the idea of this - I can see this as being especially helpful for remote teams working in different timezones! Congrats on the launch 🙌
Justin Mitchell
@calum We love our PH family. Thanks so much for the support.
Ivanna Wendel
Awesome product @jmitch! Well done!
­Anmol Parashar
This is going to now replace every meeting I take as a Product Manager. Seriously amazing job by the Yac team. Meet looks amazing!
Hunter McKinley
@parasharanmol thanks Anmol!
Eugene Hauptmann
Interesting concept @jmitch Have you explored moving into B2C space and replicating some of the methods that ClubHouse uses? Specifically doing one-to-many broadcasting/messages? Also at the times of WFH, I think you could extend into the culture building nice and let employees your tool to establish office/corporate culture.
Hunter McKinley
@jmitch @eugenehp hey Eugene, we support one-to-many messaging out of the box! We also have Yac Rooms which is similar to Clubhouse for work👀 https://www.yac.com/features/rooms
Daniel Kempe
Smashing it left right and centre! 🔥🔥🔥
Hunter McKinley
@danielkempe you are an absolute legend 🔥
Vartika
Very powerful update and a must needed feature. This will help outgrow the community. Good luck
Hunter McKinley
@vartikamanasvi thank you! 🚀
Brandon Escalante
Awesome Yac team!
Jordan Walker
@brandonesc My guy, thank you man!
Hiba Amin
Pumped for you guys!! 🙌🙌
Hunter McKinley
@hiba_amin thanks Hiba!
Ara Ghougassian
The kings of remote are back with new product. This is going to make the YAC experience waaay better for async meetings - especially with people across timezones. Great release team!
Hunter McKinley
@ara_ghougassian1 that’s the idea! Faster meeting creation without all of the headaches of meetings!
Andrew 💥
This is as cool as it gets for async work!
Andrew Zhou
No way, this is freakin' sick! Congrats on the launch, team :)
Hunter McKinley
@andrewthezhou thanks Andrew!
Juan Di Toro
Yac is definitely changing the way we communicate 🚀
Hunter McKinley
@ditorojuanf yelling across the Internet 🗣
Siddharth Pandiya
This is amazing! My team and I still spend a ton of time in sync meetings, and we've been pretty nervous about going more async, precisely because it's been hard for us to actually get stuff done async. Lots of process improvements we need to make, but this is a no-brainer to get us to fully-async :)
Hunter McKinley
@pandiyasid thanks man! That was super thoughtful
Andrew Kirima
Congrats on the launch @jordanlwalkerrr!
Hunter McKinley
@jordanlwalkerrr @andrew_kirima1 he’s always on the move 💨
Paul Hart
Very nice. It's time we got the team on Yac. 👍
Hunter McKinley
@snakecharmer add me and let me know if you run into any trouble! Yac.com/hunter
Lluís Ventura
Congrats again Justin and team! Good approach to async meetings! :)
Justin Mitchell
@lluis_m_ventura Thanks my man! We should reconnect. It's been awhile. yac.com/jmitch whenever you're ready
Jeremy Redman
Async voice is the future!! And there’s no better bet than Yac! I love it for async communication within our team! Wonderful product!!!
Hunter McKinley
@nocodejeremy wow thanks Jeremy! I think async is here to stay too!
👩🏼‍💻 Marie Dollé
I love what the team is building. Congrats!!!!