Vini Donin

Building deskmy, the platform you'll use for work in the future. Start now:

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deskmy is creating a meta-layer that connects all apps and all people needed to get work done, enabling you to be productive and to collaborate no matter which app you are using or how distributed your team is.

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Experiment #6 (of 45): The Presence Awareness Study

How we solved the "Are you available?" problem.

The Frustration: Constantly interrupting focused colleagues or waiting hours for responses to urgent questions.

The Experiment: Created ambient awareness systems, like peripheral vision for digital teammates. You could sense availability without relying only on status updates.

The Revelation: Just like in physical offices, the best collaboration happens when you can feel your team's rhythm. You know when someone's deep in thought vs when they're ready to brainstorm.

The Breakthrough: Built environments where presence feels natural, not through status messages, but through the living energy of shared work.

The Culture Shift: Interruptions dropped 60%, but collaboration quality increased 40%. People connected at exactly the right moments.

How might ambient team awareness change your team's collaboration rhythm?

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Experiment #5 (of 45): The AI Assistant Experiment

How we learned AI teammates change everything about collaboration.

The Skepticism: "AI is just a fancy search engine that will replace us."

The Test: Added AI agents as actual team members for 30 days. Gave them access to our work, let them participate in planning, and treated them like colleagues.

Surprising Reality: AI didn't replace human creativity - it amplified it. When AI handled the tedious implementation details, humans focused on strategy and innovation.

The Magic Moment: Watching a human-AI pair solve in 2 hours what used to take 2 days. The AI provided endless execution energy while humans provided vision and judgment.

The Integration: Now we can't imagine working without AI teammates visible and available, working side-by-side with us on everything.

What would change for you and your team if AI felt like a colleague instead of a tool?

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@johnrushx I want it

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Experiment #4 (of 45): The Context Switching Nightmare

How we discovered the hidden cost of digital workspace fragmentation.

The Setup: Did an internal survey, results were that the team was feeling scattered and unfocused during work.

The Experiment: Using the same time-tracking feature from the previous experiment, we tracked every app switch, window change, and context shift for the week.

Devastating Reality: Average of 154 context switches per day per person. Each switch costs 23 seconds to refocus. We were losing 1.2 hours daily just mentally switching gears.

The Deeper Problem: It wasn't just time, context switching was killing our team's creative flow. The best ideas come when you're deep in thought, but we were constantly being pulled to the surface.

The Solution: Ditched the many open tabs by creating a unified digital space where everything flows together - like having one room where all your work lives instead of running between 12 different buildings.

The Result: Deep work sessions increased 300%. Innovation ideas doubled.

Try this: Track your context switches for one day. Then imagine working in a space where everything feels connected.

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Experiment #3 (of 45): The App Switching Audit

How I learned productivity tools make us less productive.

The Hypothesis: More tools = more productivity.

The Experiment: We developed a time-tracking feature (not surveillance by any means) and analysed the data for a week. Tracked every app switch, every context change.

Brutal Reality: 12 different apps on avg. Three hours daily per person, just switching contexts. We were tool managers, not workers.

The Revelation: What if everything lived in one space? Your teammates, your AI assistants, your work apps- all visible and accessible without the mental overhead and overload of tabs.

The Solution: Consolidate all we need to do our work in a single workspace. Cut cognitive load by 70%.

Run this experiment: Count the apps you use in one day. Then imagine them all in the same place, working together seamlessly.

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Experiment #2 (of 45): The Remote Work Lie Test

How we discovered remote work's biggest lie.

The Setup: Everyone preaches "async work is the future." I believed it completely, so let's do it.

The Experiment: Forced our team into pure async for 30 days. No spontaneous calls, everything documented, responses within 24 hours only.

Reality Check: Projects dragged on. Team energy died. We moved **really** slow.

The Discovery: The best teams feel each other's presence even when apart. You need to sense when someone's available, see what they're working on, and feel the collective energy of the group.

The Pivot: Started creating digital spaces where we could feel each other's work rhythm. Remote team became more connected than when we shared a physical office.

Food for thought: How is your team rebuilding the "office energy" in a remote or hybrid setup?

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Experiment #1 (of 45): The Meeting Cost Calculator

How I realized most meetings are just expensive instant messages.

The Problem: A Few years back, I watched our team start spending 30 minutes scheduling a 15-minute call to answer a simple question.

The Experiment: We started timing coordination vs actual collaboration. Every scheduling email, calendar search, and "finding a time that works" back-and-forth.

Reality Check: 40% coordination, 60% collaboration. We were spending almost half our time arranging to work instead of actually working.

The Breakthrough: We tried something new, and discovered that the best conversations happen when you can just tap someone on the shoulder digitally. No scheduling. No calendar tetris. Just instant connection when inspiration strikes.

The Result: Team productivity jumped 75% first week when we eliminated the friction between having an idea and discussing it. That's when deskmy were born.

Try this: Track your team's coordination time for one week. Then imagine if you could talk to anyone instantly, as naturally as walking over to their desk, no Zoom links, no async messages, no scheduling.

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people + AI agents + work apps, in a single workspace

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The Team Collaboration Experiment: Building in Public (Unfiltered)

Most building in public content shows sanitized success stories. I will share 45 unfiltered truths about what really happened when we ran 45 collaboration experiments to unlock team potential.

The spectacular failures, the breakthrough moments, the expensive lessons that taught us how teams actually achieve greatness together.

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@lorenzo_pravata done

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@CharlieChanZeng audience, unless you create audience first, then audience.

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For the people who are truly and efficiently using AI agents daily.

Are they mainly integrated or isolated from your comms stack?

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@ericdjav more people, more bugs, and the need to do things that we leave to do later when scaling. it's part of the journey. let's go to the 100 then.