Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
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Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#2Hey Show HN!
We’d love some feedback on remoty which helps remote teams reach their full potential with powerful time-tracking and progress update workflow in Slack.
=> What does it do?
1.Boosts your team coordination using intuitive time tracking commands.
2.Helps you save hours in meetings by organizing async daily stand-up meetings.
3.Helps you track billable hours, generate scrum logs and export CSV timesheets of your team.
=> Why’d we built it?
We devised a workflow in our company to create an essence of working in the same office by increasing visibility over availability and statuses of team members. This workflow had 2 basic steps
1. Announce your check-in/check-out/breaks followed by two or three words to give context in a dedicated channel.
2. Turn in your standup notes (even if we already had a team standup call) while checking in or out so as to maintain records of standup notes.
We saw a real change in our team’s coordination and productivity over the period of next few weeks. We then started to think on the lines of automation so that the data that was being collected could be put to good use as well. This led to us to build remoty!
As of now we have approximately 100 users who actively use our product. All of them are following the process that we follow in our company. So far we haven't been able to pin point the EXACT user persona of remoty. We have pure technical teams, marketing/insurance teams and even research labs of universities paying for the product.
Some of our users/potential users that I talked to are requesting for a shift/leave management feature while others are looking for a more comprehensive in-slack task management solution. Would really appreciate feedback from you all on how we can improve & grow remoty!
Please headout to [https://remoty.dev] to give remoty a shot!
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#3This just looks like a way for employers to track employees with no benefit to said employees. No one needs to know when I’m on a break at home / taking a shit.
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#4I'm not really sure what problem this is solving. The value prop seems to be based around more closely emulating the in-office experience, but in what office did people need to track time spent at their desk, and announce to everyone when they were going to the bathroom or to lunch? I would hate to work in that office.
That feature seems to be aimed at paranoid managers, not "teams".
Also, the "asynchronous stand-up" feature seems at-odds with the time-tracking. A work culture that allows for asynchronous stand-up should also be one that doesn't care when someone is at their desk and when they are not.
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#5Not really the place ask for unbiased feedback. Most devs here want less of this sort of thing. Maybe post on reddit startups instead.
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#6I would quit any job which made me do this while working remotely. I've been a very successful full-time remote engineer for over a decade and this is incompatible with my workflow and quality of life considerations.
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#7Please no, let's not use a bot to tell others that we're taking a 'power nap'.
"TIME TRACKING & SCRUM MADE SIMPLER AND FUN"
How on Earth could someone write this down? Making time tracking FUN? Making it frictionless, easy, simple -- okay. Fun?
(Sorry for the negativity, I've been working and leading engineers remotely for many years, and the big challenge and holy grail of remote work is finding the best way for providing context, not tracking time.
providing context: lead by providing meaningful goals and context so that people can independently move towards them in an environment where communication is expensive and noise is harmful.
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#8Absolute crap
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#9absolute crap. should not be used by any company. yall want to make it harder to work remotely... smh
Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
#10This just looks like a way for employers to track employees with no benefit to said employees. No one needs to know when I’m on a break at home / taking a shit.
Well that's one way to look at it, maybe a lot of people who share your view as well but there most certainly are people who want to take shit in peace XD. They don't want those annoying calls from their team members when they are busy.
We see it as giving back control the employee about his schedule. He tells everyone that he's not available to work rn (adding comment is optional so he can skip on the specifics of the break)