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Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by jpincheira »

lkurusa wrote: post #7

This 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…

Hello Levente. I'm super glad to see that you like the idea, really. Thanks for checking the app out.

To answer your questions: 1) Audio-only updates are coming soon. And with the iOS/Android apps is a great I idea to "listen" updates as you drive. Really cool, and will implement this soon when the audio-only support is coming (will work too by "listening" to videos as well).

2) Search is coming as well. You're idea is cool (specially for managers to be checking into a project), and I am already thinking on making a JIRA integration that puts all the associated/tagged standups into its related JIRA ticket on the sidebar, but this could also work via the search (advanced) section! Text-to-speech is also something cool, let's see how it all goes, as it's also easily implementable using Google's Cloud Speech-to-Text :)

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by bdagnino »

dstik wrote: post #49
bdagnino wrote: post #21

Hi JP! I´m a founder of a 20pp fully remote company, and I think your product could have a great impact! However seeing such a high (in my opinion) price per month per user is an issue for me. This product, while super useful, cover only a small portion of the remote dynamics we face each day, and that price per month per user in our case at least doesn´t justify it. Loved the idea thought, so all the best!

Hey bdagnino - we've been building out an asynchronous video-based communication tool for remote teams like yours that supports Agile workflows and effectively improves team chemistry. Would love to hear your feedback: https://agile.trytape.com/ (dave [at] trytape.com)

Hi Dstik, being 100% candid, I don´t really understand from your landing what the product does =/

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by sutble »

dstik wrote: post #48
jpincheira wrote: post #6

Hi 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…

Hey JP - great work, love this! We also believe that asynchronous video is a way better experience when it comes to stand ups. We've been working on a similar video product ( https://agile.trytape.com/ ) that tackles all of Agile so it's great to see more activity in this space.

I find the fact that you've been aggressively marketing your product throughout this Show HN very disrespectful.

In case you decide to delete your comments, I uploaded them here. https://imgur.com/a/KPpgW8u

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by paulie_a »

peterwwillis wrote: post #25
paulie_a wrote: post #19

I'll be honest, I will never watch a standup video.

You might once your manager sees that you haven't watched the last 4 weeks worth of standups....

At a previous job I didn't listen to voicemails from my boss for 6 years. I'd hit delete immediately. Stand-ups are a waste of time, those videos would be equally so just like those voicemails were.

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by dstik »

bdagnino wrote: post #62
dstik wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey bdagnino - we've been building out an asynchronous video-based communication tool for remote teams like yours that supports Agile workflows and effectively improves team chemistry. Would love to hear your feedback: https://agile.trytape.com/ (dave [at] trytape.com)

Hi Dstik, being 100% candid, I don´t really understand from your landing what the product does =/

Hey bdagnino, we definitely need to work on that :)

Tape is a video-based communication tool for remote teams using the story-format for consumption. Starting a tape is as easy as sending a snap (with a subject line), replies are threaded inline (think email meets stories) which results in clearer communication and better team chemistry as you get more "face-time" with your remote colleagues.

Currently, organizations with remote teams use Tape for elements of agile (stand up, retrospective, sprint planning) as well as meeting replacement (time shifting meetings to asynchronous video instead of struggling to coordinate live calls across time-zones) and for overall communication. It is deeply integrated into Slack which fits into most workflows.

I'd love to chat more about how we can help your team! (dave [at] trytape.com)

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by jpincheira »

Oras wrote: post #4

Nice 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.

Hello :) First off, glad you like the idea! You nailed it! One of the pains in my previous agile teams was exactly this, dropping audio / choppy videos, interrupting standups. Everybody still standing, waiting for our manager to make a new call. Opening a new app for the video call, etc. This would be happening way too often, and we'd be like "oh, man".

For the part of devs not bothered to watch it: soon audio will be coming, and maybe —depending on feedback— audio to text could come too. Also, "seen" flags are coming too, so the team manager and the submitter will be able to see who's watched the updates.

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by heymishy »

madrox wrote: post #37

The best SCRUM master I ever worked with had strong opinions about standups. Standups, he said, were an attempt to address the principle of constant communication. He said most places held to standups too literally and the updates weren't useful to most of the people in the room, which negated the whole purpose.

Yeah I concur wirh this. Apologies if I've for the intent of this wrong but stand ups are intended to be a team sync point where questions are asked, mutual understanding reached and I doing a 1way update seems counter to the intent of a stand up.

It definitely has its place to provide opportunity where you can't all meet together but it you'd to rely promote questions and discussions following this by all team members to avoid it being a box tick

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by kohanz »

jpincheira wrote: post #45
kohanz wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What stack are you using to record, trancode (?), and store the videos?

Thanks for asking! I was looking into the transcoding for quite some time, but due to my previous experience working at an IPTV company in Toronto (they sold a bunch of their channels to Rogers), I was familiar with ffmpeg / encoders in general. So I decided to skip Amazon Elastic Transcoder and do my own Lambda transcoder, which resulted in a way cheaper solution for it. All videos recorded are in H.264 and VP8 coun…

Did you roll your own recording front-end as well or is it done by file upload?

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by iv597 »

brightball wrote: post #32
jpincheira wrote: post #6

Hi 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 like the concept but I do struggle with the price point for 1.5 minute videos per day.

I crunched the math earlier and it's something like... 35c a day for a reasonably standard North American tech worker workyear?

Doesn't seem that bad, especially to avoid the hassles of coordinating remote teams' standups (hell, even some colocated teams could benefit from this).

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by iv597 »

sutble wrote: post #63
dstik wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey JP - great work, love this! We also believe that asynchronous video is a way better experience when it comes to stand ups. We've been working on a similar video product ( https://agile.trytape.com/ ) that tackles all of Agile so it's great to see more activity in this space.

I find the fact that you've been aggressively marketing your product throughout this Show HN very disrespectful. In case you decide to delete your comments, I uploaded them here. https://imgur.com/a/KPpgW8u

I was just about to say the same. This is unethical at best, probably closer to "laughably bad looking".
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