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Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

243 points aml183 | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 19:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source

We are a remote company. Everything is going well. No plans to be in person, but I’d say we can do a better job at communicating. Any tips or articles to read?
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screye ◴[15 Nov 24 20:18 UTC] No.42150474[source]▶
If you're in similar time zones, try https://www.gather.town/ ?

I've used it for remote conferences, and I like its 2D UI. Real sense of space there.

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Atotalnoob ◴[15 Nov 24 20:27 UTC] No.42150588[source]▶
This would be insanely disruptive to me and I think most of my team.

There are much better ways to handle this like using gitlabs handbook.

To me this is the equivalent of having to be on camera all day. Am I idle if my avatar hasn’t moved or interacted with something in game?

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1. zeendo ◴[19 Nov 24 21:54 UTC] No.42188505[source]▶
Not everything is out to get you. Gather doesn't have any automatic idle detection.

I doubt Gather would work well for a large company where there is less trust between individuals - maybe that's the scenario you're imaginging it in?

It works well in our small company where trust is implied by being here and we have few concrete expectations. In practice it's no different than being signed in to Slack.

You have the option to mark yourself as away or to passively lock your desk area so people have to knock to come in but this status isn't apparent unless someone comes by.