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Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

natenthe wrote: post #30
superzadeh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah good question, we actually debated quite a bit on this. In the end, we want to build the best UX possible (we realized it's one of the value prop of our product), and we felt that going native would be better mid & long term because at some point, you hit a threshold with those react native/hybrid and it makes more time to polish things out. Also right when we started (in Feb), we had to implement Apple Sign-in,…

Cool, thanks for the detailed response. As a dev I'm always curious about the decision making for startups that are choosing between hybrid and native. Seems like the best decision for that is unique to each project.

Glad it helps! If we didn’t put so much focus on UX (i.e: if we were building a “boring” typical B2B education tool), we would most likely have gone with React Native (we also have a lot of expertise with React in the team). But we talked with people, and realized that they use our app at the same time that they go on IG, Snapchat or TikTok. What that means for us is that our UX needs to be just as good or even better than those big players if we want to compete on “screen time”.

That’s already quite hard to do with a 2 people tech-team, so adding on top of that limitations from cross-platform frameworks would have been shooting ourselves in the foot.

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by bfung »

I downloaded and went through the first session. A few UX feedback:

1. During the training part, I didn’t realize that touching the left side went back while the right side is to go next. Some visual cues may help.

2. Sharing my profile - this part seemed strange as I don’t have others at work on this app yet. The app brought up my personal contacts, which I absolutely don’t care to share this info with. I think making this app somehow get traction at a business will work, but as a consumer app, this sharing is awkward. Hope that helps!

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by nooyurrsdey »

superzadeh wrote: post #2

Like many devs, I somehow ended up managing a small team. I’ve had bad bosses before, so I found myself wondering things like: - How do I run a 1:1? - What do I do when someone has issues? - How do I avoid the mistakes I’ve seen made by other managers? But the answers tend to be hard to find. So about a year ago, our team at Bunch set out to make it easier. Our goal was to combine micro-learning (bite-sized, actionab…

Nice - do you have a waiting list for your android version? Would love to check it out when it's ready.

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by gingerlime »

looks interesting. I installed the app but not sure about the login options... then checked the linked privacy policy and started to get nervous... I know it’s mostly for your website but it mentions google analytics, hotjar, google tag manager, mixpanel, amplitude, intercom, smartlook, facebook pixels, sentry and probably much more... all pretty much based on legitimate interest :-/ feels rather intrusive to me (but I admit I feel like a bit of a privacy freak these days... after all who even reads those privacy policies)

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

mandeepj wrote: post #32

Just downloaded and completed the onboarding. Is it a side hustle for you or are you looking to establish a business around it?

Hey Mandeepj, not a side hustle ^^ we’re looking to estbalish a business around it. Our mission is to help anyone to become a great leader, so we want to keep the app free for individuals. We are also working on “team features”, and this is where we plan to make revenue for our business.

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

bfung wrote: post #33

I downloaded and went through the first session. A few UX feedback: 1. During the training part, I didn’t realize that touching the left side went back while the right side is to go next. Some visual cues may help. 2. Sharing my profile - this part seemed strange as I don’t have others at work on this app yet. The app brought up my personal contacts, which I absolutely don’t care to share this info with. I think maki…

this is super helpful, thank you for taking the time to share it! for the first point, we also heard this from a couple other people, and actually working on improving it this sprint And we’ll keep your feedback in mind for the second point (maybe sharing it via Slack or MS Teams to co-workers)

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

nooyurrsdey wrote: post #34
superzadeh wrote: post #2

Like many devs, I somehow ended up managing a small team. I’ve had bad bosses before, so I found myself wondering things like: - How do I run a 1:1? - What do I do when someone has issues? - How do I avoid the mistakes I’ve seen made by other managers? But the answers tend to be hard to find. So about a year ago, our team at Bunch set out to make it easier. Our goal was to combine micro-learning (bite-sized, actionab…

Nice - do you have a waiting list for your android version? Would love to check it out when it's ready.

Sure! We have it on our website, https://bunch.ai or you can even drop your email directly here: https://bunch-ai.typeform.com/to/tXPvy5rA

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

gingerlime wrote: post #35

looks interesting. I installed the app but not sure about the login options... then checked the linked privacy policy and started to get nervous... I know it’s mostly for your website but it mentions google analytics, hotjar, google tag manager, mixpanel, amplitude, intercom, smartlook, facebook pixels, sentry and probably much more... all pretty much based on legitimate interest :-/ feels rather intrusive to me (but…

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I know it’s not always easy to share, but definitely appreciate it. Maybe we can add an opt-in for our analytics: we mostly use them to understand what we should build next (or measure when we do A/B tests in the app), as well as be able to help when people get in touch with a coach via Intercom. All of that can/should be optional though, so I’ll bring that to our board and see if we can do something there.

Also, there’s no harm at all in caring about privacy, rather the opposite, so your opinion is 100% valid!

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by insomniacity »

I was excited to use this, but sign-in is limited to Apple and Google?

Unless you can provide a straight username/password option I'll have to pass.

I guess you don't want to handle them, which makes sense, but there are plenty of other services that can handle it for you.

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