Blog Posts

From remote work to the latest Yac updates

Written by

Hunter McKinley

@hunter

@huntermoonshot

How to Cut Out 97% of Your Client Meetings in a Week

Learn how one agency cut 97% of employee meetings and how you can too.

Sprint Retrospective vs. Review: Which is better for your team?

Sprint reviews and retrospectives are different, but both are essential. Learn more about these meetings and how to use them to improve your team’s productivity.

Everything You Need to Know About Ad-Hoc Meetings (and Why They’re Not Always Necessary)

Find out why ad-hoc meetings aren’t all they’re cracked up to be and how asynchronous communication is the perfect alternative.

Go async with Yac

How to Effectively Share Weekly Team Updates

Too many teams are holding wasteful and unproductive weekly team meetings—but there are better ways to get team updates while promoting deep work.

34 Zoom Memes

Give yourself some much-needed comic relief with this collection of over 30 hilarious and painfully relatable Zoom memes.

The Four-Day Work Week is Coming: How to Prepare and Experiment Today

Are you ready for the four-day work week? Here’s how to overcome obstacles and increase productivity with a shortened work week.

How to Run an Asynchronous Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Even though it’s entirely possible to connect async for retrospectives, you may not want to use them for every step of the process.

6 Audio First Startups Changing Legacy Industries

As innovators think of new ways to engage, expect technology to stop relying so much on eyes and start engaging other senses like hearing. There is already a lot going on in this space, and it’s only growing. Audio is set to disrupt every legacy industry in the world - and this time, they want you to hear them coming.

Audio First Messaging Platform Yac Raises $7.5 Million Series A Led by GGV Capital and Co-led by the Slack Fund

Yac Inc., an online voice message and asynchronous communications platform, today announced it has raised $7.5 million in venture funding led by GGV Capital with additional investment from the Slack Fund, who also invested in 2020. Yac is currently developing one of the most efficient audio communication platforms for remote teams.

How to brainstorm asynchronously without losing idea quality

The office world chose synchronous as a foundation, and it led to tons of meetings that probably should have been an email. Remote work has the opportunity to flip that script, starting asynchronously and demanding justification for holding meetings.

Introducing: Yac 3.0 🎉🚀

We’ve updated nearly every aspect of Yac in the last month and we are proud to finally get to announce it.

Audio Tech? Voice Tech? What Gives?

The future of Voice and Audio may not be more social networks, but commanding apps to do work for you. Along with the rise of no-code, we may very well see a future where building technology is based on explaining what you want and having the computer do all the work.

Remote Team Communication Styles That Actually Work (Based on What You’re Trying to Get Done)

Find the right communication style for your team

If AirPods Users Were A Country…

After 2020 (assuming a wildly conservative 0% sales growth), there will be more AirPods users than people living in Bangladesh. It’s quite possible that the populations of Brazil, Nigeria, and Pakistan will be trumped by AirPods users shortly after.

Top 8 Slack Voice message tools

Despite the lack of feature support from Slack, there are a handful of products that have hacked together useful Slack voice integrations.

9 Tools To Unleash Your Productivity

Spend less time being unproductive by searching for productivity tools

Remote Job Searches Surge In March

Is The Economy Going Remote?

Remote Apps Aren’t Just For Work

The Top App Charts in America are now filled with apps that would have been considered obscure and unpopular just 90 days earlier.

Top 5 Communication Tools For Remote Teams 2019

A quick run-through of Top 5 Communication Tools You Should Consider Using For Your Remote Team

Webflow’s $72M Series A Roadmaps Distributed Teams Playbook

How Webflow is able to balance a hybrid workforce of onsite and remote workers.

Foo Fridays

Convinced your team is ready for Foo Fridays? From Zohaib’s experience, the experiment works when you’ve implemented the day the correct way. Here’s a few tips he shared with me before our first Foo Friday.

Yac's Voice For A Day Remote Challenge

Let your team's voice be heard.

How Zapier Works Remotely

I sat down with Emily Breuninger, Manager, Partnerships - Launches at Zapier, to talk about how she’s able to manage her fully remote team and how Zapier is able to scale their fully remote team.

The Shifting State of Remote Work

An exploration of what has changed and what has remained the same over the last three years in remote work.

How To Hire Remote Freelancers Through Upwork

When it comes to advancing the remote team model, UPWORK has led the charge by creating a platform that enables professionals and freelancers to collaborate remotely.

An Apple AirPods X Wishlist

My top 3 features I wish Apple would implement on the new "Airpods X"

How To Use Zoom 101

In just a few weeks, Zoom has gone from being a nice-to-have communication software for long-distance video meetings to an absolute necessity.

Choosing a tool for your remote team in 2020

We've selected the top 7 most important criteria for you to choose your remote communication tool for 2020