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No screenshot page. No video. => Closed the site without looking further. Not sure whether the product exists or whether this is only an announce for a future thing they are building.
No screenshot page. No video. => Closed the site without looking further. Not sure whether the product exists or whether this is only an announce for a future thing they are building.
No screenshot page. No video. => Closed the site without looking further. Not sure whether the product exists or whether this is only an announce for a future thing they are building.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. The cards pictured are the core of the actual product. Do you think we should make it look more like a screenshot or declare that it is the actual product?
After 30s I figured that all you have to offer is the ability to write a 3x5cm sticky note. Useless. Ain't paying for it. (not to mention redundant with Trello)
I worked in a 50 people company and I understand the issues with following other people's work. That is a real problem to me. A sticky note is of no help, if there is a workflow around that thing, I don't see it and it's not explained.
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Interesting, thanks for the feedback. The cards pictured are the core of the actual product. Do you think we should make it look more like a screenshot or declare that it is the actual product?
I saw the cards. After 30s I figured that all you have to offer is the ability to write a 3x5cm sticky note. Useless. Ain't paying for it. (not to mention redundant with Trello) I worked in a 50 people company and I understand the issues with following other people's work. That is a real problem to me. A sticky note is of no help, if there is a workflow around that thing, I don't see it and it's not explained.
Hey, cofounders of TakeAim here. We work for a small startup in SF and have been part of its growth from 4 to 40 employees. As it grew, we felt less connected to the company, and had less opportunity to affect various projects and details of the business. We missed that. We went from a single team standup of the whole company to multiple different standups segmented by function. We saw a problem and decided we wanted…
In remote teams issues with daily accountability are definitely a thing. I've tried a few approaches, full on project management is sometimes a little heavy, especially for non IT workers. I don't like to count bums in seats I just want to know what's going on and whether things are progressing. It seems like you've hit a nice sweet spot here, so definitely think about how you can get this in front of remote teams in…
Hey, cofounders of TakeAim here. We work for a small startup in SF and have been part of its growth from 4 to 40 employees. As it grew, we felt less connected to the company, and had less opportunity to affect various projects and details of the business. We missed that. We went from a single team standup of the whole company to multiple different standups segmented by function. We saw a problem and decided we wanted…
A few thoughts: - if you can find a way for just a single user to get value out of the product then you don't need to convince an entire team to adopt a new tool all at once. It could happen organically instead and over time. It would also give you a chance to slowly help/sell that team over time. - the homepage doesn't really tell you what the product does. After signing up and playing a bit I now understand. Whats…
We will definitely reach out to you soon, thanks for the offer.
Hey, cofounders of TakeAim here. We work for a small startup in SF and have been part of its growth from 4 to 40 employees. As it grew, we felt less connected to the company, and had less opportunity to affect various projects and details of the business. We missed that. We went from a single team standup of the whole company to multiple different standups segmented by function. We saw a problem and decided we wanted…
In our team, we're managing upcoming work by epics, features, user stories and tasks (TFS style), all ahead of time. For the latter two, ages are spent estimating, in the process having feelings about risks. We're left with a bunch of tasks that only partially describe what we eventually realize needs to be done, leading us to choose between sticking to the tasks, thus producing a nice burndown chart, or doing what's best for the project.
For our team, the devs just want to know if we are spending our time in the best way possible:
1) What are we going to focus on today? Not completing, just focus on. That's mostly enough to align efforts. 2) What did we focus on yesterday, and can we evaluate progress? Steady? Slow? Stuck? 3) What did we actually end up focusing during the past week? Did we side track often or have to change direction?
However, without the future aspect, management probably wont bite, making this a tough sell. So maybe consider something that marries the two: Some high level future planning, breaking work down to epics and features only, and some focus tracking for daily alignment and performance evaluation.
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A few thoughts: - if you can find a way for just a single user to get value out of the product then you don't need to convince an entire team to adopt a new tool all at once. It could happen organically instead and over time. It would also give you a chance to slowly help/sell that team over time. - the homepage doesn't really tell you what the product does. After signing up and playing a bit I now understand. Whats…
Thanks for the detailed feedback! We cleaned up the homepage a bit and added a bit more of what the product does, but its probably still missing some details. We will definitely reach out to you soon, thanks for the offer.
It is even possible it was there, but the cards looks mostly like "testimonials" (which they aren't) so it feels really easy to skim it.
There's also loads of "standup" tools already, which I assume this is. And do people like standups to begin with? I don't. Some of my days are just "still working on X".
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It's possible you solved a problem only your company has. Did you try to evaluate other options in this space and see what you have that is new/different that other options? (If you have distinctions, are you marketing them well enough?) Maybe your product does too little? If people are looking for a Standup Replacement/Aid there are more dedicated Slack bots. First example in bing: https://standupbot.com/ I realize…
Great points -- and its definitely possible we pigeonholed the product. Here are some of our competitive advantages that we're trying to get across (we just updated the homepage cards in an attempt to convey some of this): - Notifications - Organization by team and / or project - Search - Kudos - Persist the data, can view the past - Can mark aims as an accomplishment and build a timeline of your career viewable by y…
Even if it's a side project, security matters.