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Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

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Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#11

Post by rexreed »

ishbaid wrote: post #5

I'm Ish, the founder of Virtually https://www.tryvirtually.com/calendar . We're the easiest way to manage Zoom events for private communities. Managing virtual events for more than a few people is a pain. Either you paste emails from spreadsheets into Google calendar or you rely on internal mailing lists, which get out of date and make calendar invites hard. If you want to do events for subgroups, or send out reminde…

What is the intent for showing how many people were late or no-shows? Is this app for internal meetings? That would explain the no-show / attendance thing.

Or is it for external events? In which case, what is the importance about late attendees. No-shows is to be expected, especially for free events (And even paid events have a substantial no-show rate).

I'm confused as to who the intended customer audience is meant to be.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#12

Post by tobr »

1123581321 wrote: post #8

The titles for these crack me up. Each time I quickly imagine one startup incorporating all the descriptions.

I thought it was some keyword stuffing SEO spam that had accidentally ended up on the frontpage.

Cramming multiple unrelated things into one post like this doesn’t feel very HN-y.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#14

Post by llampx »

rexreed wrote: post #11
ishbaid wrote: post #5

I'm Ish, the founder of Virtually https://www.tryvirtually.com/calendar . We're the easiest way to manage Zoom events for private communities. Managing virtual events for more than a few people is a pain. Either you paste emails from spreadsheets into Google calendar or you rely on internal mailing lists, which get out of date and make calendar invites hard. If you want to do events for subgroups, or send out reminde…

What is the intent for showing how many people were late or no-shows? Is this app for internal meetings? That would explain the no-show / attendance thing. Or is it for external events? In which case, what is the importance about late attendees. No-shows is to be expected, especially for free events (And even paid events have a substantial no-show rate). I'm confused as to who the intended customer audience is meant…

I used to do meetups for some hobbies before the pandemic. For me, managing no-shows is very important. Many events have an attendance limit, and everyone who flakes takes space from someone who intended on going.

I only started getting no-shows and late cancellations under control once I started kicking people out for doing more than X no-shows. Also, it really helps to take money for reserving a spot, contrary to your assertion.

For me, especially with pandemic restrictions, managing no-shows is a very important feature.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#15

Post by rexreed »

I'm seeing a trend of apps that help to (micro)manage distributed / remote workforces. Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events, Dailybot has automated standups that basically keeps tabs on employee work and productivity.

I'm curious to hear from the founders as to what motivated the creation of the apps and whether WFH plays a significant part in the value proposition. Would you need either app in a traditional work-from-office environment?

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#16

Post by rexreed »

llampx wrote: post #14
rexreed wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the intent for showing how many people were late or no-shows? Is this app for internal meetings? That would explain the no-show / attendance thing. Or is it for external events? In which case, what is the importance about late attendees. No-shows is to be expected, especially for free events (And even paid events have a substantial no-show rate). I'm confused as to who the intended customer audience is meant…

I used to do meetups for some hobbies before the pandemic. For me, managing no-shows is very important. Many events have an attendance limit, and everyone who flakes takes space from someone who intended on going. I only started getting no-shows and late cancellations under control once I started kicking people out for doing more than X no-shows. Also, it really helps to take money for reserving a spot, contrary to y…

I run dozens of events a year. Online and even now in-person. I don't have any "space" issues with virtual events. Which platform that you're using has registered attendee limits (vs. actual live attendee limits) and how does a no-show at a virtual event take away space from someone who is going?

All the streaming / event platforms I use charge based on actual viewers and attendees or active users on the platform. If I had a limit of 100 live, I could literally have 1000 people registered with 900 no-shows and that wouldn't be any issue. The no-shows are not taking anything away from the shows.

The only reason to manage no-shows is to manage active engagement. And that's more of a community building thing than a platform thing.

Virtually, from what I can tell, is managing Zoom events, which are entirely online events, so live in-person attendee limits don't seem to be a factor here.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#17

Post by dang »

1123581321 wrote: post #8

The titles for these crack me up. Each time I quickly imagine one startup incorporating all the descriptions.

Not sure how to do the titles for these so I'm kind of winging it. The names of the startups wouldn't mean anything to most readers, and might not fit in the 80 char limit anyhow. The current style is kind of inspired by The Browser newsletter, which digs up assorted links on the web.

If anyone has a different idea for what to put in the title field for these, I'm all ears!

Edit: do semicolons help?

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#18

Post by maomorales »

rexreed wrote: post #15

I'm seeing a trend of apps that help to (micro)manage distributed / remote workforces. Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events, Dailybot has automated standups that basically keeps tabs on employee work and productivity. I'm curious to hear from the founders as to what motivated the creation of the apps and whether WFH plays a significant part in the value proposition. Would you need either ap…

DailyBot was born out of our own need - we’ve been WFH for many years and needed to stay in-sync with each other. There was a behavior we were not happy about: managers or people coming to others asking about what they’re working on or requesting status updates, often. We wanted to change that behavior with our product, if you get some written updates on a periodic basis, the team will get more aligned, managers won’t need to bother (that frequent), and likely you’ll reduce the amount of unnecessary meetings.

Then we started extending the product around async work practices. Traditional work-from-office environments can indeed benefit from improving collaboration practices, getting more work done inside the chat, and (of course) decreasing the pointless meetings for things that could be written updates.

It could happen that teams use DailyBot improperly for micro-management purposes - that’s why we’re also creating a catalog of best practices and proper question templates; asking the right questions is key. We'll go further by adding more features to DailyBot so it becomes a highly useful personal assistant at work.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#19

Post by pizzetta »

skulle16 wrote: post #3

Hey HN, I’m Colum, a co-founder of Genuity ( https://www.gogenuity.com ) - a SaaS platform for companies to manage IT: things like keeping track of laptops, managing employee support requests, and buying software at wholesale prices. We are trying to solve two major problems: (1) there is no QuickBooks of IT - most IT solutions are costly, hard-to-use enterprise offerings; and (2) lower volume = higher prices. We bel…

How can one tell how much is being saved through your service compared to contracting directly with a SaaS (Box, Okta, for example.) keeping in mind, that rarely are list prices what small companies pay to begin with, though admittedly, larger companies can get bigger discounts.

When technical issues come up, does one get support directly from the vendor; if not, how does that work?

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#20

Post by pionar »

ishbaid wrote: post #5

I'm Ish, the founder of Virtually https://www.tryvirtually.com/calendar . We're the easiest way to manage Zoom events for private communities. Managing virtual events for more than a few people is a pain. Either you paste emails from spreadsheets into Google calendar or you rely on internal mailing lists, which get out of date and make calendar invites hard. If you want to do events for subgroups, or send out reminde…

Are you worried about Zoom basically taking your idea and baking into their product?

Also, what does this have to do with Zoom specifically? Is it just the attendance tracking?

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