Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
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Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#2I 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 like about this service is that it takes the simple "story" approach from Instagram and uses that to solve the standup problem. Nice. Good luck!
Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#3Great idea. From the screenshot the UI looks very sterile.
Would be great if the actual video content would get more screen estate to focus on the team and not on the UI controls.
Also, why is your app not advertised on the website? I think the app should be the main entry point to your tool and not a web dashboard.
Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#4Nice 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 not be bothered to watch it or follow up but it could be quite useful for leads and managers.
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#5Great idea. From the screenshot the UI looks very sterile. Would be great if the actual video content would get more screen estate to focus on the team and not on the UI controls. Also, why is your app not advertised on the website? I think the app should be the main entry point to your tool and not a web dashboard.
FWIW I think the screenshots look great.
If someone’s going to use this tool every day, you want to emphasize the videos and faces that change every day—not the buttons and links.
Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#6Hi HN!
I'm JP, founder of Standups.io. Last March, I resigned from my full-time iOS job with the idea of making a web/mobile app for async video standups. I did some traveling (China/Vietnam) while I started to work on the app, but eventually ended up back in Germany, escaping South Asia's rainy season :)
The idea of async video standups started to grow on me since last December when I was in the north of Brazil. I was there for some weeks doing remote work for my employer back in Germany, and I had to get up at 5 AM just to make it for the 10 AM standup back in Hamburg. This didn't feel right. Other team members were going through the same. So that's how it all started. Today I'm finally launching and I'm super excited to get your feedback. I'm solo founder, so it's been quite of a ride itself, but I'm looking forward to what's next :)
iOS and Android apps are coming next — in some more weeks, as I feel it's important to be able to post your standup update from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection.
I'd love to hear your feedback (feature requests, bugs, etc) and personal experiences when it comes to team standups and how you guys are running standups with team members that are not on-site / distributed, or maybe as a full-remote team. I'm eager to implement some more features that might help this kind of team setups better. You can try Standups for free here: https://standups.io/register
Thank you so much!
JP
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Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#7This is a great idea, good luck with it!
A few small suggestions:
1) Often times, I find myself in a car or in an area with heavily limited internet (i.e., the subway). I think it would be beneficial to allow a "listen to the audio only mode", reducing bandwidth and/or ensuring I keep focusing on the drive (maybe like a "team podcast" :-) )
2) In a similar vein, speech could be converted to text to make it searchable. When I worked in a fully remote team, we had meetings where someone said something that turned out to be important later on. Sadly, looking through months of meeting footage is not something anyone of us wanted to do, speech-to-text could be handy here.
Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#8Hi HN! I'm JP, founder of Standups.io. Last March, I resigned from my full-time iOS job with the idea of making a web/mobile app for async video standups. I did some traveling (China/Vietnam) while I started to work on the app, but eventually ended up back in Germany, escaping South Asia's rainy season :) The idea of async video standups started to grow on me since last December when I was in the north of Brazil. I w…
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 improvement.
Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
#9Great idea. From the screenshot the UI looks very sterile. Would be great if the actual video content would get more screen estate to focus on the team and not on the UI controls. Also, why is your app not advertised on the website? I think the app should be the main entry point to your tool and not a web dashboard.
Hi Beni! Thank you for your feedback! I'll put it into consideration for the next iteration! I'm gonna be making a few UI tweaks based of the use in the next days now that it is out for people to try it.
The app is not yet there, that's why I didn't show it, also, I didn't want to post a mockup of it to not make it misleading, as right now it only the web app. :-)
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#10Really 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!