In most remote meetings, team members don’t feel heard or engaged, often distracted and ramble a lot which results in hours of wasted time at scale.

What if there was an alternative?

Meet Waitroom: a more structured, efficient, and collaborative meeting experience that helps you achieve your goals.

I first came across the platform a while ago (during the MVP phase) when it was being used by top business leaders (like Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia🤯) and pop culture icons (like Tan France.. my wife and I love Tan!❤️) to get closer to their fans and build deeper relationships. I experimented with a weekly AMA talk show myself and had so much fun. I was stunned by the power of using time-boxed slots and allowing your audience to take turns so everyone gets a chance. Waitroom just made this experience ridiculously smooth and simple!

A few months later, the team informed me about their subsequent product iteration into the B2B space to find ways to make meetings suck less. In most companies, the traditional stand-ups, weekly team meetings, All Hands sessions etc. are largely un-organized and inefficient so I knew this was a huge opportunity. Quite naturally, I was more than eager to bring this platform to the larger PH world and help more global teams discover the power of Waitroom.

A few hours ago, I hunted Waitroom on Product Hunt because of how much I love the team and the vision they have for the future of meetings. Check it out and share your quick feedback/comments.

Why I'm bullish on Waitroom 👀:

Features like "AI-powered Summaries, Bite-Size Clips, Queue and Timer" are extremely powerful in enhancing the overall productivity of teams and orgs. More importantly, Waitroom's team seems to deeply care about making sure everyone's voice is heard by designing helpful tools like "Reactions" or "Chime In" where even the non-presenting members of the meeting can participate actively.

To put it simply, Waitroom is building the future of meetings 🚀

Quick note from CEO, Vinny Lingham:

Hey there, I’m Vinny and at Waitroom, we're on a mission to shake up the broken culture of conventional remote meetings!

We all know meetings can be a bit of a mess - time is wasted, chaos ensues, and it's often an unpleasant experience. That's why we've built a brand new meeting platform that's aiming to rock the boat with some controversial core features…

🎛️ A Queue: People have to wait their turn to talk

⏲️ A Timer: Once it’s their turn in the queue, their timer starts and they need to be brief, no waffling here!

👀 No cameras on for viewers: Unless they’re talking, they’re off camera

🤖 AI Powered: Waitroom is powered by a robust AI Meeting Assistant

Intrigued yet? We've been working hard for almost a year to bring you this game-changing platform, and we're thrilled to share it with the wider world today. Thanks to the whole Waitroom team for making this a reality, and a big shoutout goes to KP for hunting us on Product Hunt! 🚀

Recap:

Waitroom is on Product Hunt today at this link.

Would love to hear any feedback or your first reactions. The team will be online all day replying to comments and questions so don’t be shy :) Thank you!