đ General curiosities
Our on-demand 50-minute coworking sessions are at the heart of how we hang out every day, but, this space is so much more!
Hop into Groove to ⌠⤾ď¸
- Privately cowork with friends anytime, from anywhere
- Join a Groove Space to meet new pals with similar interests
- Form a regular coworking crew
- Post a goal that friends can see for next-level accountability
- High-five a fellow Groover to celebrate a win
- Attend monthly Goal Planning Parties
- Schedule Grooves in advance to form a habitâŚ& more!
Imagine if you got to design your dream coworking space and all the awesome humans you know and love (close friends, former teammates, the people you met on a retreat, etc) could show up and support you (and you support them!).
Groove is your dream workspace that you can hop into from the comfort of your own home to see in real-time how your friends are doing, what theyâre up to, and have some structured fun together.
You can join by applying on our site or having a current Groover send you their invite link.
For now, Groove is only available on iPhones, Androids, & iPads. Itâs like a third place in the palm of your hand that you can transport to when you need some good vibes, high fives, and focus time. One of the best parts about it being on your phone is how casual it is. Itâs quite common for Groovers to flip their phone camera around to share the view outside their window.
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Groove is free for now. One day, weâll have a paid option. For now, weâre excited to welcome folks in for free who love the concept and really embody what it means to be a Groover, whose work doesnât fit into a neat little box.
đş Our coworking sessionsâaka how we hang out every day!
Our 50-minute coworking sessions are how we hang out every day inside the Groove app. One tap and 1-3 other Groovers will join you for an on-demand session.
First, everyone says hello on video and shares what theyâd like to get done. Then, itâs time to go off video and focus for 50 minutes. As you make progress, fellow Groovers will cheer you on in a written chatâand you can send high fives and good vibes back đ When the time is up, youâll come back on video to share how it went and celebrate đ
Consistently showing up to move things forward adds up to big changes over time! đ Whether you're Groovin' with friends you've known for years or new pals, it's easy to bump into each other on the regular, hear how they're doing, and also get stuff done.
Nope, just you and 1-3 other Groovers. The Groove app itself makes it easy for the experience to run smoothly each time. In the pre-Groove chat, the app will prompt one person to share their goal first. Then, that person âpasses the micâ to the next person. So, even though thereâs no facilitator, the Groove app will empower you to know what to do next.
A few minutes! When you are sharing your goals at the beginning, the outline around each person will change colors to show youâve been talking for at least one minute and itâs time to move on to the next person.
If you have to get to work quickly in order to make a call at the top of the hour, for example, communicate that! If youâd like to ask someone a question about something in their Groove bio and get to know them better in the post-Groove chat, ask them if they have an extra couple of minutes. Respecting each otherâs time is extremely important to us.
What you do in the Groove is up to you! You can tackle a long-procrastinated project like redoing your website or creating a new strategy to better promote your businessâŚor you can jump in, coffee in hand, first thing in the morning to plan your daily to-dos or clear your inbox. If youâd like to use the time to tidy up your space or take an intentional break away đśđťââď¸from your computer, thatâs cool too!
We all do different things inside these sessionsâthe thing that bonds us is why weâre here. Weâre a whole bunch of ambitious doers from all over the world, who have decided to create lives and career paths that feel so us đ
110%. Early birds, night owls, and those feelin' the afternoon slump are all welcome to tap the big green button inside the app and hop in whenever. It fits right into your dayâno matter what structure you've designed for yourself.
đĄÂ Pro tip: If you tap on your profile picture in Groove and then settings, you can customize your Grooving hours. We highly recommend doing this, so that you only get notifications from Groove during hours you like Grooving.
- To start a regular, on-demand Groove, right here, right now. Click the big green button on the home screen. Other Groovers will join you shortly. This is the most common type!
- To start a private Groove with a specific person or people, visit your chats. Select the chat with the people you wanna Groove with (or make a new chat). Then, click +Groove in the top right corner and your friends will be invited to join you. No one outside of that chat will see youâre in this Groove, after all, itâs private.
- To RSVP for a scheduled Groove aka book a time to Groove later in the week, scroll down to Coming Up and click âIâll be thereâ. To create your own scheduled Groove, click the calendar icon on the home screen. You unlock the ability to schedule a Groove once youâve Grooved 2x.
Once youâve completed at least 2 Grooves, click the calendar icon in the top right corner to create a Groove for a date/time in the future. Set a theme/title for the Groove to unite around a similar intention with other Groovers. For example, you might create a "To-Do Setting đ " Groove for next Monday morning to kick off the week and figure out what needs to get done. Or, a "Zen Time đ§đ˝ââď¸ Meditation" for Friday afternoon. Everyone else who RSVPs for that Groove can join you in doing the same.
If youâre just starting out, the default is that everyone on the app can join. As you keep on Grooving, youâll unlock more options to make who its available to more specific.
You'll be prompted to start an on-demand Groove instead, which will ping others to see if they're around to join you.
If you RSVPed, you can still get in, but the others may 'start work' without you.
Yes, 10 minutes before inside the Groove app and you can also connect your Google Calendar to get reminders that way.
Inside Groove, youâre not working on the same project as other people; Groove is like the digital version of sitting next to an awesome human at a coffee shop who also has their laptop out and asking them, âHey, what are you working on?â and talking for a couple of minutes before you put on your headphones for focus timeâŚand then checking in with each other again in 50 minutes. While Grooveâs focus sessions arenât specifically designed for you to brainstorm or bounce ideas off of each other about your projects, youâre totally welcome to if you meet someone whoâs interested in that.
Weâve also heard dozens of great stories of Groovers taking this to the next level and hiring other Groovers to support them on projects. This isnât the focus of Groove (and weâre definitely not a place to be transactional about finding new work), but this is a cool result of meaningful relationships being built here.
đ¤Â The social side of things
If your work doesnât fit into a neat little box, you're one of us đ We're freelancers, writers, coaches, creatives, artists, businesses owners, marketers, podcast hosts, non-profit leaders, & more. We show up as our full selves around here and appreciate each othersâ wacky, wavy career paths. Weâre a bunch of proud weirdos with niche interests. Itâs not uncommon to see on a Grooversâ bio that theyâre obsessed with baking sourdough, love to rollerskate, moved to the mountains so they can hike every afternoon, or doodle daily.
If youâre already a Groover, invite them with your âshare link,â which you can find on the main screen of the Groove app.
When you use your share link, your friend will bypass the application process and youâll automatically be notified when they join and connected to them inside the app.
Here are some fun tips for sharing âĄĚ
We believe in creating a community built on trust. Having an application process helps us intentionally bring in folks who really want to be a part of Groove and share our values. Current Groovers all have handy, dandy share links that they can use to invite friends directly into Groove, so their friends donât need to apply.
Groove orbits are a way to help you bump into familiar faces on Groove. If youâre new to Groove and see you have an orbit request, itâs probably from someone you already know or read your bio and thought you were coolâfolks are required to send a message with their orbit request, so you should have an idea why theyâre reaching out. As you jump into more and more coworking sessions, youâll eventually unlock the ability to start Grooves just for your orbit (instead of for everybody). This way, you can start a Groove and only see familiar faces if youâd like.
Once you Groove with someone they will be automatically added to your orbit. You can click on your profile to manage settings and remove someone from your orbit if youâd like. They wonât see that you did this. If you want to add someone you know to your orbit manually you can search for their profile and request to add them.
The number doesnât matter! The list of folks in your orbit and the number of people in it are privateâno one else can see them. Orbits are simply your familiar faces on Groove, people you want to keep bumping into around here. Itâs a way to keep the people youâve met visible to you and easy to select once youâve unlocked the ability to create âorbit-onlyâ Grooves.
YES! Click the handy share icon in the right corner of the Groove app, and then the green âsend invite linkâ button to share Groove with someone you want to come directly into your orbit. This will help them meet the folks youâve met on Groove more easily, so definitely a major plus if they come directly through you.
- âBe present. Thereâs something really magical about being in a Groove with 3 other people from around the world, ready to focus and keep each other accountable.â âTaylor đ§ââď¸Â Put away distractions and get ready to make progress.
- âJust go for it! Everyone is super welcoming, and you don't have to be an extrovert to thrive in the Groove community.â âKerri đŁÂ In fact, weâve found that on average, the Groove community is right in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum. The format can be really energizing for all.
- âBreak down your tasks into bite-sized accomplishable to-do items.â âJason â With time, youâll learn whatâs possible in 50 minutes. Donât beat yourself up if you donât get to everything. Celebrate the little wins.
- âWhen you need a little extra boost, go to your fellow Grooversâ âSarah đş Theyâre like your work from home cheerleaders.
Every Groover agrees to these when they create their Groove account. Theyâre great to revisit to know how to best help contribute to this special culture.