September was a historic month for SoWork! Thanks to your incredible support, we were named Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Beyond the celebrations, we shipped several major features designed to make spontaneous office interactions feel even more natural.

🚀 Key Highlights

• The Wave: You can now "Wave" at teammates to check their availability for a quick chat. It’s the perfect way to signal a non-urgent "knock on the door" or invite someone into a meeting as they pass by.

• The Gong: Celebrate your team's wins! You can now place a Gong in your office via the Mapmaker. Walk up to it and give it a bang to notify the whole team of a milestone.

• Meeting Note Timelines: AI summaries now include clickable timelines. Clicking a timestamp takes you directly to that specific moment in the meeting recording.

• Mobile Web Support: You can now join meetings and view the office (in Simple Mode) directly from a mobile browser—no app download required for quick check-ins.

🛠️ Product & UX Fixes

• Privacy & Focus: We added a highly requested feature that automatically disables your camera and mic when the SoWork app is moved to the background (unless you are actively in a meeting).

• Office Entry: Completely revamped the entry flow for guests and teammates, giving Admins more granular control over who can admit external users.

• Leave and Return to Desk: A new "Leave and Return to Desk" option in the meeting menu allows you to teleport back to your workstation instantly after a call ends.

• Analytics Exports: You can now export your team's office analytics to a CSV file for deeper reporting.

• Search & Stability: Fixed several bugs that caused chat channels to disappear for larger groups and restored full functionality to Chat Search.

🎨 Items & Pets

• Office Pets: Added a Hamster on a Wheel (yes, it’s as cute as it sounds) and several other new pets to keep you company.

• New Decor: Look out for the new alien-hunter outfit and the latest addition to our plant collection—the flower pot.

🏗️ Coming Soon

We are putting the finishing touches on our new Desk system and a revamped Google Calendar plugin that allows you to join specific office locations with a single click.

Vish CEO, SoWork