Standups.io
Productivity
team standup updates
SHOW HN2018
266points
104comments
#107of 2,155 in 2018
Top 5%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
14 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 16 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Idea: 7 for, 8 againstDesign: 2 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that fits remote teams
From 3 comments
I really like the idea. I work in a partially remote team and organising the standup in the morning can be tricky. There're a lot of low tech solutions to this problem but what I…
terhechte on HNNice idea which will solve the connection issues during standup, enforce time bound update and save the team time trying to align a standup. The only issue I see is devs might…
Oras on HNReally dig this idea. Love the time box aspect. Is that an editable feature (duration)? Wish I was in a remote team to try this out. GL!
thoughtpalette on HN
Snapchat-style story approach is a fresh take
From 1 comment
I really like the idea. I work in a partially remote team and organising the standup in the morning can be tricky. There're a lot of low tech solutions to this problem but what I…
terhechte on HN
Objections
Price per seat per month is too high
From 3 comments
Hi JP! I´m a founder of a 20pp fully remote company, and I think your product could have a great impact! However seeing such a high (in my opinion) price per month per user is an…
bdagnino on HNCreated an account - UX is a little clunky: have a + button to create a team. Please have the ability to do a test/add a bot/test user. Can I store the meeting? Get attendance…
samstave on HNI like the concept but I do struggle with the price point for 1.5 minute videos per day.
brightball on HN
Video standups replace live conversation the point of standups
From 2 comments
From a Scrum Master PoV, I feel like this app sort of misses the point of stand-ups. Stand-ups are supposed to be daily interaction/live communication between team members—not a…
lillesvin on HNI like it, but how does this solve the thing that I thought was the reason standups exist: to find out who needs help and to verify that the priorities are still right? I see how…
skrebbel on HN
Nobody will watch the videos
From 2 comments
I'll be honest, I will never watch a standup video.
paulie_a on HNNice idea which will solve the connection issues during standup, enforce time bound update and save the team time trying to align a standup. The only issue I see is devs might…
Oras on HN
Requests
Audio-only mode
From 2 comments
Thanks for mentioning that because I've had audio on my mind since the beginning, and it's definitely gonna come soon! Please follow https://twitter.com/@standupsHQ for updates…
jpincheira on HNThere must be an audio only version too. I'm pretty sure no one in my team wants to see my face.
vijaybritto on HN
Read or seen receipts
From 2 comments
I love the idea! Where do you store the videos? What's your tech stack? Maybe read/watch receipts for who has watched the videos right beneath the videos themselves would be an…
rockybulwinkle on HNThanks so much. :) I store the videos/media on S3 and use CloudFront for cache. Tech stack is Node.js on Heroku, MongoDB, ReactJS with MobX (if you're doing ReactJS these I must…
jpincheira on HN
Closed captions or speech-to-text
From 2 comments
You are truly right and this is definitely something I personally would like to implement as soon as possible. Thank you so much for bringing it up. I think that the solution…
jpincheira on HNHello Levente. I'm super glad to see that you like the idea, really. Thanks for checking the app out. To answer your questions: 1) Audio-only updates are coming soon. And with…
jpincheira on HN
Slack integration
From 2 comments
Add a slack integration that reminds team members to post their standup story and you've got gold for remote teams
deedubaya on HNI haven't tried to use it, but in case it's helpful, these would be the features I would want: jot down notes before record, allow preview and then re-record, allow saving text…
peterwwillis on HN
Self-hosted enterprise option
From 2 comments
For enterprises you could consider adding an enterprise pricing option with on-prem hosting. Standups discuss IP and a lot of companies never let IP out of premise/DMZ.…
bastijn on HNThanks for mentioning this. I understand what you mean. I used to work for a 1000+ company that currently uses GitHub, JIRA, Confluence and Slack, all of them self-hosted. So…
jpincheira on HN
Questions
Where are videos stored and what stack is used
From 1 comment
I love the idea! Where do you store the videos? What's your tech stack? Maybe read/watch receipts for who has watched the videos right beneath the videos themselves would be an…
rockybulwinkle on HN
How encoding is handled
From 1 comment
What about encoding? Are you doing that on the device or in the cloud? Curious if there were any latency challenges you had to dig into.
t4c0c4t on HN
Alternatives named
Helpful
From 1 comment
Looks great! Not sure if you're aware of it but Helpful (https://www.helpful.com/) seems to be doing something similar.
vimota on HN
Marco Polo
From 1 comment
Pro tip: try Marco Polo. It's free. That's not to say yours isn't a good idea, and probably worth money if more specifically implemented for remote teams. Disclosure: I work on…
laurex on HN
Slack channel posts
From 2 comments
This looks very well done from the product side of things, but how is it better than having a slack channel for the team to post async standup updates in? Seems a lot simpler…
trevor-e on HNOk, so I don't think I've ever worked in a company that fully implemented Agile effectively but in a previous job one team decided to just use an irc channel and at a set time…
chocolatebunny on HN