Hi HN! After selling our first company, my co-founder Vivek and I started working remotely at the acquirer. We discovered we were much more productive than we'd expected, but we struggled with two main issues: communication and loneliness.

Communication friction came primarily from the endless back and forth in Slack / text communication. On the other hand, scheduling a Zoom meeting felt very heavyweight.

Loneliness came more slowly, but speaking to people less often definitely affected my happiness and productivity.

As a result, we built Pragli, a virtual office for remote teams.

In Pragli, you customize your appearance with an avatar and then can hop into audio rooms with one click. Video and screen share are optional.

When you're focusing or other unavailable, you can manually set a status, or automatically set a status via our Spotify and calendar integrations.

FWIW, TechCrunch describes Pragli as "BitMoji for the enterprise." https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/14/pragli-remote-office-appli...

You do have to sign up with Google, Microsoft, or Github OAuth, but there are no additional hurdles beyond that, you are dropped right into a team. You also have the option to skip downloading the desktop app and play with it in the web.

I'm here to answer any questions. Let me know what you think!