Notes from the room
What we are building, why it looks the way it does, and where the digital workplace goes wrong. From the Huddles team.
What is Huddles?
A link got passed around, a thread got long, and somebody had to explain it. The short version, the sceptical version, and the version we ended up with.
The third space: why your team needs a room, not another meeting
Chat is where things are written down. Meetings are where things are decided. Nobody built the place in between — where you just talk.
Ten ways teams actually use Huddles
Not the demo. The Tuesday. Here is what people do with a room that is always open, once they stop treating it like a meeting.
Why Huddles looks the way it does
Paper and ink, circles for people, red means live. The design decisions behind the product, and the ones we refused to make.
The biggest problem in the digital workplace is that nobody is in it
We have channels, boards, docs and calls. What we do not have is anywhere to be. Presence is the missing primitive, and most tools fake it.
Huddles versus Slack huddles, Discord, Zoom and Gather: an honest comparison
What each of them is actually built for, where Huddles is better, where it is not, and the one thing none of the others can do.
A stranger walks into your room: how a broadcast link works
One link, no account, and somebody is listening to your conversation thirty seconds after you pasted it. Here is what happens underneath, and why it is safe.
Cohorts, office hours, and the room that stays open
A playbook for running a course, a study group or a training programme in a space that is still there on Wednesday.
What we do not record, and why
No transcripts, no chat history, no friend counts, no last-seen. A room you can trust is mostly defined by what it forgets.
Voice first, camera when you want it
Why the default is audio, why that is not a compromise, and what changed when we added a camera to a product built to not need one.
Accessible by default, not by setting
Keyboard, captions, screen readers, and the difference between access — which is always on — and preference, which is yours to choose.