u/alexandre-boudot

everyone is slapping the word "agent" on their landing page to boost conversion. but if i have to read a 12-step onboarding doc and manually guide the AI through 4 different tabs just to get it to do the thing, it's not an agent. it's an intern with a login screen that needs constant micromanagement.

an actual agent should just do the work while you focus on the decision making. feels like we're in this weird phase where any feature that takes text input is suddenly an "autonomous agent". curious if anyone has actually found one recently that genuinely works in the background without needing a babysitter?

but nobody actually wants to be good at organizing their workflow or managing tickets. they just want the admin to disappear. the next wave of b2b tools aren't going to be better dashboards, they're going to be agents that do the work so you don't even need the dashboard. if your tool requires a 12-step onboarding to learn how to categorize things, it's already dead.

people blame "video fatigue" for remote work failing right now.

but the actual data shows it's a follow-up failure.

the reason companies are forcing hybrid work isn't because culture happens at the water cooler. it's because people leave a 45-minute remote call with 7 tabs open and no clear execution plan.

adding another ai note-taker doesn't fix it. it just gives you a perfectly formatted summary of why nothing got done.

the next wave of remote saas won't be about better video. it'll be about tools that actually ship the action items before the call even ends.

everyone in the micro saas space is rushing to add ai agents to their products right now.

but if your ai needs a 12-step onboarding doc just to start working, it's not an agent. it's just a form with a natural language interface.

we've been building a voice-first agent for a while and the hardest part isn't picking the right model or prompt engineering. it's the latency.

getting it down to where it actually feels like a fluid interaction instead of a command line tool takes way more effort than the actual logic. users forgive small mistakes, they don't forgive waiting 4 seconds for a simple response.

curious how others here are handling the speed vs quality tradeoff when plugging llms into their apps.

they are all built to solve the same thing: taking notes.

but the problem with meetings was never that people couldn't remember what was said. the problem is that meetings feel like a status update instead of an actual working session.

if your ai just sends a summary to slack 10 minutes later, it didn't save the meeting. it just automated the administrative hangover.

i feel like video calls didn't get better, they just got heavier. we added transcriptions, sentiment analysis, and AI bots that join your call just to email you a summary 10 minutes later. the actual experience of being on the call is still looking at a grid of faces while juggling 7 tabs.

my cofounder and i realized something recently: most meeting software assumes the meeting itself is the product.

but the meeting isn't the product. the decision you make after the meeting is the product.

if your AI just takes notes, it's basically an intern with a login screen. we got so tired of the tab fatigue that we started building a single room for our own team. video, canvas, and an agent that does the work while the conversation is still alive. no switching to notion, no opening linear. it turns the room into a recap and tasks before anyone even hangs up.

we switched to this async-first but sync-when-needed flow, and suddenly calls don't feel like reporting status anymore. they feel like actually building something together in the same room.

curious how you guys manage the tool fatigue on remote teams? are you still duct-taping zoom + notion + task manager, or have you found a better flow?

shipped a fix yesterday that made me feel kind of sick.

we use livekit for video calls in our product. about a month ago i added what i thought was a clean piece of code: when a user closes their tab, the browser fires a beacon to our server, the server tells livekit "remove this participant from the room." quick cleanup, nice and tidy, no ghost tiles hanging around for 15 seconds while the sfu times out. very polite.

what i didn't realize is that this same beacon fires on page reload. not close, reload. and because livekit identifies participants by a stable user id, the beacon was racing the reload's rejoin. half the time the eviction won the race and removed the new session by identity. the user saw their own page reload fine, audio came back, but the other person in the call permanently lost their camera. asymmetric. no error in the console. nothing in the logs. just silent video loss that only happened on F5.

i shipped this in the same week i was telling everyone how clean our rtc layer felt now. the whole thing was working until two real users tried to reload at the same time during a real call. obviously they didn't file a clean bug report. they just stopped using the feature and the only reason we caught it was because my cofounder F5'd during a demo and noticed his camera dropped on the other side.

the fix was to delete the beacon. just delete it. let the sfu timeout do its job, accept the 15s ghost tile, move on with my life. trade-off i kept trying to avoid was the right one all along. the eager cleanup wasn't an optimization, it was a footgun shaped like good engineering hygiene.

reviewing my own diff after we promoted to prod, the line that bothered me most was a comment from a month ago that said "clean leave so we don't pollute the room state." past me had been so proud of that comment. anyway.

curious if anyone else has shipped a "cleanup" path that turned out to be the bug. i feel like every founder has at least one of these in their commit history. mine is 32ef820 if anyone wants to laugh.

Hey r/SaaS,

3 of us, 21 yo, just opened Coommit to Early Access. Posting here because I want brutal feedback from people who've actually shipped real SaaS, not just nice words.

Quick context: most video calls in 2026 still feel like 2020. Grid of faces. Nobody draws. Whiteboard in another tab. Notes in another app. "AI assistant" = a transcript nobody reads.

We tried to build the opposite. Here's what's actually live (not roadmap copy):

A real-time canvas INSIDE the call

Boxes, sticky notes, arrows, drawings, code blocks, PDFs, YouTube embeds, Google Drive files, even live shared browsers. One window. Everyone draws at once.

Echo: an AI co-pilot IN the call

Say "Echo" and ask. It listens (real-time transcription, FR/EN), reads the canvas, acts on it.

• "Echo, summarize the last 5 min on a sticky." → 2 sec.
• "Echo, generate a logo with our brand colors." → lands on the canvas.
• "Echo, reorganize all this." → tidy in one shot. Ctrl+Z if you don't like it.

BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) means your own API key, your data never touches our servers for inference. Wake-word required every time so Echo never fires on background chatter.

Hand gestures to navigate the canvas

• ☝️ Index = laser pointer everyone sees
• 🤏 Pinch = grab/pan the canvas, or select an element
• 🖐 Open palm = spread fingers to zoom in, close to zoom out
• 👍 Thumbs up = confetti burst

Camera reads gestures in real-time but filters out 8 natural "noise" poses so only intentional moves fire.

Try it: coommit.com Join the waitlist for Free. We onboard small batches every day, and once you're in, one of the 3 founders DMs you on WhatsApp directly. Yes really.

What I actually want from you:

1. After watching the demo, what's the dumbest decision you'd un-do?
2. What feature would actually make you switch from Zoom / Meet / Teams?
3. If you've shipped a SaaS competing with an entrenched player what got you your first 100 users?

Built alongside our mentor Oussama Ammar, who's been part of the project from day one and shared it publicly for the first time on his channels yesterday. So today we're opening it up here.

Happy to AMA on the build, the stack, the failures, what's still broken, anything. I'll be in the comments all day.

https://reddit.com/link/1tjiyte/video/qm5l15ykhh2h1/player