February
09
, 2022

Meeting Widgets Are Here!

Supercharge your calls with meeting widgets - These lightweight apps help you stay organized, make your calls more engaging and more fun! You can trigger a timer, get a randomized list of participants, add agenda items or a poll, and even put on some background music to set the mood. Anybody can add/remove widgets and multiple people can interact with the same widget at the same time.

Meeting widgets! 

Timer Widget

Meetings usually involve a lot of brainstorming, or writing activities, that require you to set some time aside to do some thinking alone or in groups. When that happens, the timer widget helps you stay on track, and it comes with a few handy piggyback features; you can mute everybody on the call and you can also add background music. Which brings us to the next widget!

Music Widget

Change the mood in your meeting with one click! The music widget enables you to add ambient music from a variety of genres, and everybody gets to adjust their own volume. It can add nice pleasant vibes when people are filtering into the meeting, or at the end, when you're just chilling or co-working.

Standup Widget

One of the most common forms of meetings teams usually host are standups. With our widget, you can get a randomized list of meeting participants, and when someone's finished you can mark them (or they can mark themselves) as done, and this highlights the next person that's supposed to speak. It's a very simple way to keep your standup going, saves you a lot of phatic communication, and lets you focus on what matters most: connecting with your team.

Agenda Widget

Organize your discussion by adding items to the agenda widget. Everyone can contribute at the same time, you can edit items, and mark them as done once you've had a chance to go through them.

Poll Widget

The poll widget lets you take the pulse, at any given moment. You can add different options, and your team gets to decide what they want to go for, in one click.

🚀 Try meeting widgets on your next call and let us know what you think!

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— Rajiv

December
13
, 2021

December Updates

Remote Control

Now when you share your screen in Tandem, you can choose to let others in the call steer your computer with their mouse and keyboard. When you're done, easily switch it off with the click of a button or a keyboard shortcut.

Send messages to a meeting room before joining (coming soon)

If you're running late to a meeting, you can now click on a meeting and send a message to everyone attending. Chat is synced when you are in and out of the meeting.

Access unread messages in one place

If you've received a few unread messages in Tandem, you can now easily locate them, mark them as read, or jump to the appropriate convo.

You can now chat in rooms outside of calls, as well as recover links that were shared during a conversation in rooms.

Your teammates will be notified if you @-mention them or use @all.

Call window Usability improvements

We're introducing a new design to help with some long-standing usability issues. E.g. unintentionally leaving the call because the buttons are too crammed, or not being able to find some actions.

Other Improvements

  • Ability to disable mic auto-gain
  • Unread messages and @ mentions in chat
  • In Chat, you can now type emojis by typing colon and then filtering through the list
  • Web Meeting experience improvement
  • Dozens of fixes and updates to improve reliability
September
08
, 2021

👥 Team Tables

Tables!

Team Tables is a new casual conversation mode that allows you to co-work, be available to chat, and have spontaneous conversations with your teammates - just like working around a physical table.

You’ll start as Available, and you'll overhear other tables (you can control overhearing at any time). One early tester commented "The vibes feel like working in a coffee shop!"

Join a Table or click on a teammate to start talking. Want to focus for a bit? Go back to Available to co-work.

👉 To try this feature, admins can activate it in Settings > Team Settings > scroll to bottom: Team Tables

September
08
, 2021

Tandem 2.0 live on Product Hunt!

We started Tandem when my two co-founders each had kids and started working remotely. We missed the flow and camaraderie of working together, so we started building. Since then, my co-founders' kids are walking and talking (and high-fiving us on Tandem), and we've been joined by a truly world-class set of builders and thinkers that have pushed our vision of Tandem further and further.

It would mean a lot to us if you'd show us some love, leave a comment, or share with friends!

We're launching three major new features today on Product Hunt:

👥 Team Tables: a new casual mode to unlock serendipity and co-working!

📱 Android is here: It's a virtual office in your pocket!

đź“… Never be late to a Meeting: stay in flow with Meeting Reminders and Auto-Join. No need to check your calendar!

—Rajiv

September
02
, 2021

Virtual Backgrounds! + September updates

We recently launched background blur. Now by popular demand, we've added virtual backgrounds. Here's a demo video:

Screenshare improvements:

  • More bandwidth-efficient screenshare
  • Allow screenshare viewers to adjust the quality of the screenshare
  • while screensharing, fade cursors after 5 second of not moving
  • Ability to stop someone’s screenshare - e.g. if they forgot to stop screensharing (click on their name in the call box)

Meetings

  • If someone’s in a Zoom/Meet meeting on Tandem, you can still call them (you'll be warned first)
  • In the Meeting Details side panel (click on a meeting title in the team list), you can invite meeting participants to Tandem in a click.

Other call improvements

  • Renamed “Start side conversation” to “Invite to a new conversation” in user menu
  • On a call, there's an “Add people” button in the triple dot menu
  • Leave calls quietly (only play a leave sound when you/they become the last person)
  • Small improvements to Same Room (hybrid calls) feature - e.g. the "Same Wifi Detected" dialog is always on top
  • Chat improvements: emoji responses are larger, shortcodes (like Slack, but no autocomplete), no jittering, delete or copy messages (right-click on the message), fix for double-sending messages on disconnect
  • Fixed cases where reconnect could get stuck
  • Fixed missing streams when other users reconnect
  • Fixed “chonky” video when HD mode and FPS mitigation kicks in
  • Fixed custom apps not showing up as presence on Windows
  • Fixed issues with Crosstalk being lost