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The nuances Al has brought out around remote working are things I had never heard before.

Unlike folks who are just remote-work fanboys, he has brought a perspective where remote work is more an attractive option for companies and workers alike due to obvious reasons.

Alongside, he has also spoken about where remote does not work well - on an individual level where someone such as him needs that in-person "weekly cadence" with the team.

Hi All, Suvansh here. A bit of the story behind Remote Tools (remote.tools) below.

I faced huge problems in finding the right tool to use to manage my remote team. None of the popular tools seemed to have been built keeping in mind the struggles of remote workers and managers.

For example - my team members felt that Slack was hampering rather than improving their productivity.

> Slowly, while researching tools, I build a list of ~70 tools across different categories that could be used by my team basis the specific use-case they solve.

> Rather than keeping the information with us, I with my 2 of my colleagues decided to share it with the world and built the first version of our product.

> The repo garnered considerable traction and many other remote product makers reached out to us asking us to update their tool on the repo.

> With this, we decided to build the second version of the product which would enable the remote-first product makers to showcase their work and the use-case they are solving to the remote community. All this without using any marketing jargon.

Thus, the aim is for the remote community to solve their problems with these tools rather than getting stuck in reading marketing pitches.