Hi everyone, I'm happy to be back here announcing this huge update for Metro Retro, the collaborative whiteboard for fun team meetings!
I launched the first version of Metro Retro in 2019 to help teams run productive, fun, and engaging retrospectives. Now 1 million sign-ups later, our bootstrapped team of 3 people have built a new version of Metro Retro that caters for all the meetings and workshops that teams hold.
We believe that using a fun tool is important for team collaboration because people will look forward to and enjoy their meetings, which in turn drives engagement and effectiveness. Hence, Metro Retro.
Metro Retro combines the flexibility of an online whiteboard with a layer of tools designed to help facilitators manage the meeting flow, plus a sprinkling of quirky tools to keep everyone engaged.
This version was in early access for over a year as we worked with our first 100 paying customers to make a product they love. We learned a lot through the process and are excited to now launch it publicly!
In this version:
- Revamped whiteboard experience: practically everything has had an upgrade while keeping the simplicity that made the first version a hit.
- New Facilitator Functions: polls, anonymous mode, pointers, bring everyone to me, timers, ready checks, and tool selection.
- 100+ Templates: professionally designed templates across retrospectives, icebreakers, estimation, product planning and prioritization, interactive workshops, and other meeting types. All are completely customizable or create, save, and share your own.
- Overhauled Dashboard: Private team rooms with workspaces and folders, invite collaborators, and set roles. SSO keeps your security department happy!
- Better Import / Export: Drag and drop a CSV file onto a board to create auto-stickies, or pull out your selected stickies into a HTML table!
- And Lots More: drawing, hats, improved confetti cannon, index cards, tokens, poker planning, shapes and arrows, to name a few.
We've had fun building this and we hope you enjoy trying it! Looking forward to your feedback and comments.
Thank you
Steve
About Metro Retro 2.0 on Product Hunt
“Fun, collaborative whiteboard for remote meetings”
Metro Retro 2.0 launched on Product Hunt on December 6th, 2023 and earned 171 upvotes and 56 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. Introducing the new collaborative whiteboard that makes team meetings productive and fun.
On the analytics side, Metro Retro 2.0 competes within SaaS, Software Engineering and Meetings — topics that collectively have 90.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Metro Retro 2.0 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Metro Retro 2.0?
Metro Retro 2.0 was hunted by Stephen Whitfield. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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