Productizing our biggest F&#K up

My co-founder and I really f&#ked up. We had raised some capital, setup our business, hired a team and started working on another product.

Like so many teams, we were massively distributed. Our team was partly remote, and my co-founder and I were out of the office all the time. We took pride in how much we talked to customers in person. But, when we’d return the debrief/team sync would break because we weren't in the same room or even on the same timezone.

We wanted to move faster, and we wanted to build a transparent team, but we were utterly failing to connect meeting insights to the rest of the company. So we built a hack JUST for us. A calendar-connected Slack app that would prompt us to set agendas and write notes, which were then shared with the team in Slack.

Suddenly, we’d return from our day's journey, and the team was in sync and already full of ideas. We were on to something. Plus, by linking meeting notes to the calendar, we didn’t have to organize anything anymore — my biggest headache!

That’s when we thought “What else do you reckon we can connect our meeting notes to?”

Engineering work gets done in Jira, marketing in Asana, sales in a CRM and the list goes on. So, Slack and calendars were the first two integrations. Today Hugo connects with 20+ tools.

That became our mission — to connect the way we meet, to the way we work.

A long story short. We released Hugo today on ProductHunt so the rest of the world can have the benefit of our mistake turned solution. I'd love your support!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hugo-2