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Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

#31

absolute crap. should not be used by any company. yall want to make it harder to work remotely... smh

I am assuming you have some problem with creating intra team transparency?

The same way many people have some problem with neighbourhood transparency by using curtains on their windows?

Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

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Yeah this is a product for managers who miss the warm fuzzies of seeing butts in seats.

lol! you're saying that ONLY your manager is concerned whether you're in your seat or not?

What everyone is saying that NOBODY should care whether we are in our seat or not. That is not relevant to remote work, nor to autonomous team members. Remote teams do care about availability, but that little green dot next to our name in Slack completely suffices.

Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

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reclaim ai looks like a really great tool! I just have skimmed through the landing page, but from what I understand is you still have to switch context even after using a slack integration. Teams are split in sooo many tools these days, that switching context is sometimes that big of a overhead that people may choose to avoid it. Plus most importantly, never claimed that using remoty is the ONLY way you can communica…

Points are taken. I think you have to nail down who your audience is: colleagues or managers. How you approach the problem is going to be different for each audience, based on the expectations and workflows of those audiences. Best of luck.

Thank you so much for this amazing feedback! Will do!

Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

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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?

The entire premise of the tool. There are developers who work full-time remote specifically to escape micro-managing aspects such as knowing exactly when you're sitting in your chair. Presumably you've built this for the other set of remote developers who are only working remotely because they have to, but really they want an office. This tool caters to the latter at the expense of the former.

EXACTLYYYYY! What everyone seems to forget that there can be more than one type of remote work.

The title of this this post is to work like you're in the same office. Whole tool is focusing towards people who would WANT to have that type of remote experience, they need to know about each other's schedule etc.

Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

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The entire premise of the tool. There are developers who work full-time remote specifically to escape micro-managing aspects such as knowing exactly when you're sitting in your chair. Presumably you've built this for the other set of remote developers who are only working remotely because they have to, but really they want an office. This tool caters to the latter at the expense of the former.

EXACTLYYYYY! What everyone seems to forget that there can be more than one type of remote work. The title of this this post is to work like you're in the same office. Whole tool is focusing towards people who would WANT to have that type of remote experience, they need to know about each other's schedule etc.

If there's something constructive to take from the somewhat brutal set of responses you've received, I'd say it's to strategically consider how to make this software friendly to the HN type of remote worker (those who value independence and don't wish to simulate an office environment).

I'm not sure exactly what that would look like, but if that type of remote worker feels too threatened by the software, the companies will receive lots of push back and you're less likely to retain them as a customer.

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lol! you're saying that ONLY your manager is concerned whether you're in your seat or not?

What everyone is saying that NOBODY should care whether we are in our seat or not. That is not relevant to remote work, nor to autonomous team members. Remote teams do care about availability, but that little green dot next to our name in Slack completely suffices.

This is a product where some people will want it even if they don’t “need” it and I think it might do well on that basis. It’s for time tracking cultures and I bet a lot of development is done this way especially cheap shops selling basic sites to clients. So probably there is a demand for this kind of tool. But not for FAANGs etc.

Re: Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

#38

absolute crap. should not be used by any company. yall want to make it harder to work remotely... smh

I am assuming you have some problem with creating intra team transparency?

Well the real issue for me is not the tool but the implied culture. I’ve worked at places that track time in Jira and for the first 3 months it’s fine, then manager dive into reports and i get pulled into a room for being too slow. Now I have to take shortcuts and think about maintainability less and write shite code. Then I leave. Employee churn is not great for teams. Churning thoughtful developers and keeping the “fast” ones is definitely bad for velocity but you’ll never notice. I’d say let this tool be a warning to all devs: what will you do to skill up so you don’t need to work for companies that track your time on the shitter.
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