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Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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A side comment: I think you don't stand a chance to have a substantial customer base in Scandinavia. Their decision making process is by iterative consensus. You hold the meetings on the topic until there is a collective agreement for unanimous decision. If there is not, you hold another meeting in a few days.

Or you enjoy meeting each other too much.

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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I like the idea a lot. However, putting my company data - contacts info included - in some cloud makes me uncomfortable, so please comment or add somewhere information about how you (plan to) solve things like security and privacy.

Hi soco, great point! We think about encryption a lot as on-prem doesn‘t make too much sense. Would that work for you?

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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Webhook integrations: Slack/Mattermost; Zulip; Zapier Platform ; GitHub Pull Requests Another issue/checkbox: Re: collaboration engineering, Thinklets: "No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157064

Thank you westurner for the link. Super helpful. Kind regards, Bastian

Great idea. IMHO, Feedback is necessary for #EvidenceBasedPolicy; for objective progress.

Evidence-based policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_policy (Jupyter, scikit-learn & Yellowbrick, Kaggle,)

Town hall meeting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_hall_meeting

awesome-ideation-tools: https://github.com/zazaalaza/awesome-ideation-tools :

> Awesome collection of brainstorming, problem solving, ideation and team building tools. From foresight to overcoming creative blocks, this list contains all the awesome boardgames, canvases and deck of cards that were designed to help you solve a certian problem.

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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I built something similar. It didn’t really work as a business (or at least I wasn’t able to make it work) so I open sourced it: https://github.com/async-go/asyncgo If there’s anything useful there feel free to scavenge, or if you’d like to talk about what I learned trying to build it let me know.

Hi synu! Thanks for your comment! Very interesting! Would be great to have a chat! Best wishes, Linus

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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I built something similar. It didn’t really work as a business (or at least I wasn’t able to make it work) so I open sourced it: https://github.com/async-go/asyncgo If there’s anything useful there feel free to scavenge, or if you’d like to talk about what I learned trying to build it let me know.

Hi synu! Thanks for your comment! Very interesting! Would be great to have a chat! Best wishes, Linus

My contact info is in my profile.

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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We’ve found decision logs and our structured “RFC” process quite useful at Notion. The extra structure from a dedicated SaaS for this could be helpful. But to me the Pro/Con voting system seems like it’ll work only for Go/NoGo binary choices. What about selecting the best option from a suite of candidates?

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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Hi HN family I’m Linus, the other founder of TopAgree. We’re super excited to launch our beta today! Why we built TopAgree Like many of you, we had lots of daily meetings. But with us, there rarely was a clear meeting agenda, or it was not followed, or even if so, someone was not prepared to make a decision. It often was a mix of private chat followed by opinionated discussions, ending in bad last-minute compromise d…

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Hi pvg! Thanks for your message, I wasn‘t aware of that.

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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Hi HN family I’m Linus, the other founder of TopAgree. We’re super excited to launch our beta today! Why we built TopAgree Like many of you, we had lots of daily meetings. But with us, there rarely was a clear meeting agenda, or it was not followed, or even if so, someone was not prepared to make a decision. It often was a mix of private chat followed by opinionated discussions, ending in bad last-minute compromise d…

Are you worried that you're trying to solve a process/people/culture problem with a technology solution?

Hi elefantastisch, could not be worried more. But we want to solve it for us and hopefully some others :)

Re: Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

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Your page says "Join the waitlist and get access soon." A Show HN needs to be something users can try when it's posted: Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. [...] Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feed…

Hi pvg! Thanks for your message, I wasn‘t aware of that.

You can edit the title to take the 'show hn' off although a mod will come along to do it for you at some point.
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