Show HN: Pulse – Internal Substack for Teams
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We built Pulse because we saw that keeping people inspired, motivated and aligned in any high-growing organization is hard. When you’re a small company and employees fit into a single room (physically or virtually), everyone knows what everyone else is working but at around 50 employees, this stops working and answering simple questions like “What are the company high-level priorities? What does leadership value most? Who are all these people I’m working with around the globe?” becomes super hard.
If you have a system like Pulse, you (and others in your team) get a central location to (1) streamline important comm about priorities, directions and status, (2) share, discuss, review or collaborate asynchronously and (3) hold institutional knowledge and decision history that’s important to keep so that employees, current and future, aren’t lost without context.
With Pulse, you get 3 different systems in one:
1) An internal publishing platform perfect for both small-scale distributed teams or high-growing companies. You may think of it as an “internal Substack for teams” with: - Follow/unfollow teams, people, and topics - Personal feed to get caught up with new updates - Ability to discuss and highlight key decisions taken - Daily/weekly digests with updates batched in a single email - Automated Slack notifications when a new update is posted - Bi-directional linking to create dynamic references between updates
2) A lightweight people directory that helps you better know where your team members are based, what updates they shared, how to get ahold of them for work, and any quick background they’d like to share. Every profile includes: - Basic info such as name, role, department, bio, etc. - Contact links: email, phone, twitter, linkedin, etc. - Location and time zone - Posts and comments history
3) A lightweight browser extension (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox supported) that makes your default browser “new tab” your new “company home” so that keeping up with new updates is ridiculously fast and easy. Includes:
- Recently shared updates - Company (or team-wide) bookmarks - Company (or team-wide) time zones - Weekly b-days, anniversaries, or new hires
Looking forward to ideas and feedback from the community