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Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#11

Post by WorldMaker »

bmark757 wrote: post #2

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…

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 that in my case at least, what I might use your app for can already/is already handled by Skype for Business. SfB has a "What's happening today?" status message that is easy to fill out as things change. It also has things like OOO and WFH (and busy and available) status information at a glance and pulled automatically from my/my coworkers Outlook calendars... Can you offer some reason to add another application to that equation?

Similarly, .plan is a million year old way of handling some of this; I can't quite see from your marketing how much of an advantage you offer over even a traditional .plan file (other than the fact that no one hardly uses .plan these days).

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#12

Post by nekopa »

Just an idea (I know, I know, ideas aren't worth shit on HN :) but is this use case possible with what you have:

I'm trying to increase my productivity at the moment, so I'm creating 3 most important todos for the day in the morning. Can I set up a 'what I'm working on' card and have it publicly visible through an URL? So I can send the URL to a mentor, friend etc and they can see what I'm doing without having an account? Like a public view option...

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#13

Post by whatdoido »

nekopa wrote: post #12

Just an idea (I know, I know, ideas aren't worth shit on HN :) but is this use case possible with what you have: I'm trying to increase my productivity at the moment, so I'm creating 3 most important todos for the day in the morning. Can I set up a 'what I'm working on' card and have it publicly visible through an URL? So I can send the URL to a mentor, friend etc and they can see what I'm doing without having an acc…

Hey, other cofounder here. We love the idea of having more public options like this and considered having a display mode to put on TVs around the office

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#14

Post by whatdoido »

andysinclair wrote: post #6

I think your homepage needs some work. You can't see what the product is actually like, what problem(s) it solves and what features it has. If I want to "Get Started" I need to sign up, I want to see what it is like first. There are no details of what you do with my email address if I sign up; Is there a trial? What can I do if I sign up but don't pay. Small point: when I hover over the "cards" on the homepage in Chr…

Thanks for the feedback. We agree the homepage was a bit mysterious and have updated it with some text about our feature set.

PS - We also fixed the hover :)

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#15

Post by whatdoido »

WorldMaker wrote: post #11
bmark757 wrote: post #2

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…

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 you, your colleagues, and managers

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#16

Post by [deleted] »

WorldMaker wrote: post #11
bmark757 wrote: post #2

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…

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…

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Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#17

Post by cpeterso »

Mozilla has a somewhat similar home-grown standup tool (Standup) that takes input from an IRC bot. The website lets readers filter by projects, teams, or individuals. I like how TakeAim's cards highlight on people's more recent status, where Standup is more like Twitter, where some people post frequently and drown out others' status comments.

https://www.standu.ps/

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#18

Post by rchiba »

nekopa wrote: post #12

Just an idea (I know, I know, ideas aren't worth shit on HN :) but is this use case possible with what you have: I'm trying to increase my productivity at the moment, so I'm creating 3 most important todos for the day in the morning. Can I set up a 'what I'm working on' card and have it publicly visible through an URL? So I can send the URL to a mentor, friend etc and they can see what I'm doing without having an acc…

Related to increasing productivity and a public view option, one thing that Ricardo Semler brings up in his book, Maverick, that is a big productivity boost for teams is to incorporate regular public mood feedback to allow an individual to communicate how they are generally feeling that day to the whole team. It can put a lot of interactions in context and is something that's been implemented by a number of companies, could be a potentially valuable addition to the product!

Re: Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims

#19

Post by whatdoido »

rchiba wrote: post #18
nekopa wrote: post #12

Just an idea (I know, I know, ideas aren't worth shit on HN :) but is this use case possible with what you have: I'm trying to increase my productivity at the moment, so I'm creating 3 most important todos for the day in the morning. Can I set up a 'what I'm working on' card and have it publicly visible through an URL? So I can send the URL to a mentor, friend etc and they can see what I'm doing without having an acc…

Related to increasing productivity and a public view option, one thing that Ricardo Semler brings up in his book, Maverick, that is a big productivity boost for teams is to incorporate regular public mood feedback to allow an individual to communicate how they are generally feeling that day to the whole team. It can put a lot of interactions in context and is something that's been implemented by a number of companies…

Great idea -- this is something we have discussed before in the past and its great to hear some positive sentiment around it
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