Not really the place ask for unbiased feedback. Most devs here want less of this sort of thing. Maybe post on reddit startups instead.
Thank you so much! Can you please recommend some subreddits that I could get some feedback from?
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#12I would quit any job which made me do this while working remotely. I've been a very successful full-time remote engineer for over a decade and this is incompatible with my workflow and quality of life considerations.
Hey! Thanks for taking a look at remoty! Can you please share what's the worst thing about this tool? What makes it so incompatible?
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#13I'm not really sure what problem this is solving. The value prop seems to be based around more closely emulating the in-office experience, but in what office did people need to track time spent at their desk, and announce to everyone when they were going to the bathroom or to lunch? I would hate to work in that office. That feature seems to be aimed at paranoid managers, not "teams". Also, the "asynchronous stand-up"…
Hey so maybe we are not very good at umm explaining what our product does, I guess. Our vision behind emulating the in-office experience revolves around the idea that when you're working in an office, you can "see" who's in and who's not. Plus for example your colleague got off his chair and went out for of the room you'd notice that for sure (if you're friends you may even know the reason behind it as well). After covid-19 lockdowns, people started to work remote. Now that feeling of knowing what your colleagues are unto isn't anymore. If pre-lockdown you had to go and ask a colleague some help, you'd know if he's available or not but when you go remote you're not sure if he is available at that instant or not.
Plus, when a lot of teams faced a sudden transition to remote, they were only touch with the people who they were dependent on. As in your team lead, or one or two team mates. So, that feeling of being connected to other coworkers starts to fade away.
Tbh, this is the first time I have heard so many people `pissed` (can't think of a right word) at remoty. I literally have users emailing me who JUST used our product for 8 days saying that their team has already started to feel closer. I can share that screenshot as well. We never designed this workflow for paranoid managers, else it'd have some crazy features like selfie & geo-located attendance etc.
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#14I'm not really sure what problem this is solving. The value prop seems to be based around more closely emulating the in-office experience, but in what office did people need to track time spent at their desk, and announce to everyone when they were going to the bathroom or to lunch? I would hate to work in that office. That feature seems to be aimed at paranoid managers, not "teams". Also, the "asynchronous stand-up"…
Hey so maybe we are not very good at umm explaining what our product does, I guess. Our vision behind emulating the in-office experience revolves around the idea that when you're working in an office, you can "see" who's in and who's not. Plus for example your colleague got off his chair and went out for of the room you'd notice that for sure (if you're friends you may even know the reason behind it as well). After c…
And I get what you're saying about standups. But again, we designed it in a way that it allows people working in different timezones take control of their schedules.
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#15This just looks like a way for employers to track employees with no benefit to said employees. No one needs to know when I’m on a break at home / taking a shit.
Well that's one way to look at it, maybe a lot of people who share your view as well but there most certainly are people who want to take shit in peace XD. They don't want those annoying calls from their team members when they are busy. We see it as giving back control the employee about his schedule. He tells everyone that he's not available to work rn (adding comment is optional so he can skip on the specifics of t…
I'm not against status updates, it's the tracking and clocking in and out like a 1920's factory worker inside my own home that I find objectionable. Even in an office proper, this kind of tracking is a fundamental breach of trust and causes a serious imbalance of power.
I also find framing this kind of thing as somehow benefiting an employee to be so duplicitous I think it is malicious.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey so maybe we are not very good at umm explaining what our product does, I guess. Our vision behind emulating the in-office experience revolves around the idea that when you're working in an office, you can "see" who's in and who's not. Plus for example your colleague got off his chair and went out for of the room you'd notice that for sure (if you're friends you may even know the reason behind it as well). After c…
And I get what you're saying about standups. But again, we designed it in a way that it allows people working in different timezones take control of their schedules.
You can do that with a plain old calendar without the tracking
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#17I would quit any job which made me do this while working remotely. I've been a very successful full-time remote engineer for over a decade and this is incompatible with my workflow and quality of life considerations.
Hey! Thanks for taking a look at remoty! Can you please share what's the worst thing about this tool? What makes it so incompatible?
If you don't know what's so bad about it, you shouldn't be developing software. If you know what is so objectionable about it, but are acting unawares, you most definitely should stay the fuck away from software development. Everyone has a duty to take responsibility for what they create.
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#18Please no, let's not use a bot to tell others that we're taking a 'power nap'. "TIME TRACKING & SCRUM MADE SIMPLER AND FUN" How on Earth could someone write this down? Making time tracking FUN? Making it frictionless, easy, simple -- okay. Fun? (Sorry for the negativity, I've been working and leading engineers remotely for many years, and the big challenge and holy grail of remote work is finding the best way for pro…
Hey! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! Really appreciate it!
So, well we wrote because a developer in my company with whom we piloted this product said "It's like playing a game, it's fun". So it just sort of started from there and we thought might sound more catchy so we went forward with it. Nonetheless point well taken!
Please excuse my ignorance but can you elaborate a bit more on "so that people can independently move towards them in an environment where communication is expensive and noise is harmful."
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I get what you're saying about standups. But again, we designed it in a way that it allows people working in different timezones take control of their schedules.
You can do that with a plain old calendar without the tracking
So you're saying that if I have to go offline for a while during my work time I should put in my calendar?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! Thanks for taking a look at remoty! Can you please share what's the worst thing about this tool? What makes it so incompatible?
If you don't know what's so bad about it, you shouldn't be developing software. If you know what is so objectionable about it, but are acting unawares, you most definitely should stay the fuck away from software development. Everyone has a duty to take responsibility for what they create.
This is the most stupidest & absurd thing I've ever heard.