> Most managers get promoted into their role with no training. “Oh you’re a good engineer? Great! Now manage a team of engineers and stop coding”
Also known as the Peter Principle.
Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app
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#12Looks pretty neat. Good luck to you guys!
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#13Looks pretty neat. Good luck to you guys!
Thanks! We appreciate the support!
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#14YC seems to have a crush on meeting-focused products this year
- Hera: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771091
- Superpowered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318
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#15Love the goal examples library! Fun to read through. I'm curious, how long you both have been working on this? Impressed there's so much there already!
Ahh thanks! To build the initial library, which sat at ~180 goals, it took us about 2 months. A lot of the goals were crowd-sourced/submitted by experts and high performers within specific roles!
Since then, we've been slowly adding to the library, from new roles to new goals for existing roles and it's currently sitting at about 230 goals. If there are any roles that you think we're missing, we're all ears!
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#16YC seems to have a crush on meeting-focused products this year - Hera: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771091 - Superpowered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318
In my head, Hera is more of a merge of something like apple reminders and apple notes. More of a single-player experience for productivity.
Superpowered has a bunch of similar concepts - however their launch claims that meeting events won't be the focus forever. Moving to github and slack soon. So we'll see.
There are a couple others in the batch that will be launching soon that are loosely competitive.
I think it's part of a broader recognition that people who "live out of their calendars" weren't having an easy 2020.
For what it's worth, we think meetings are the means to the end not the end, not the end itself.
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#17Great app!
> Most managers get promoted into their role with no training. “Oh you’re a good engineer? Great! Now manage a team of engineers and stop coding”.
I wish this was true. Well, these days people want Engineering Managers to code and manage plus also on the side win a Nobel Prize.
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#18Love the goal examples library! Fun to read through. I'm curious, how long you both have been working on this? Impressed there's so much there already!
We launched the goals library Sept last year and it's been growing slowly ever since. Still more to do on it (and other large/free/helpful resources like our template library https://hypercontext.com/agenda-templates)
Most of the initial goals were contributed by our network so it was built pretty quickly.
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#19> Most managers get promoted into their role with no training. “Oh you’re a good engineer? Great! Now manage a team of engineers and stop coding” Also known as the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
For the folks who don't want to click-> "[Peter Principle] observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their 'maximum level of incompetence': employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another."
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I agree. However, the average new manager goes 10yrs into their role before they get _any_ training. So I'm not sure if they're at fault here or if they've been setup to fail.
I'm sure most workers would be considered incompetent if they were put into roles where they had no experience or training.
Just takes a lot of trail and error to learn.
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#20This looks really clean, congrats!
But also from my end, this leaves me pretty unmotivated. I've been working on an mvp to launch my own startup the past month, and today I find out it already exists in your product.