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Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by seer »

lillesvin wrote: post #72

From a Scrum Master PoV, I feel like this app sort of misses the point of stand-ups. Stand-ups are supposed to be daily interaction/live communication between team members—not a daily report. The point is to further inter-team communication in order to better overcome impediments. A pre-recorded update isn't very useful if other team members has comments or questions. Stand-up is also a great opportunity to ask if th…

These days, with powerful tools like jira/github/gitlab you can do the update and ask for help in a much more convenient text format, easily searchable and referencable. And you can do that all day every day, if your team is good you’ll get an answer much sooner than “once per day”.

With that in mind, the standup’s role is sort of weird - everyone agrees that “it’s important”, but for everything you actually do in it there are better ways to do it.

Maybe it’s the actual talking with other human beings thats the important part, where you can see that your team mates have their own struggles and problems, to read their body language and feel a bit more part of the tribe.

And if _that’s_ the case, maybe we’ve missed the whole point of the standup? We could make the standup a small slack post, and have a “talkie time” set up each day just to feel human?

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by confiscate »

brightball wrote: post #32
jpincheira wrote: post #6

Hi HN! I'm JP, founder of Standups.io. Last March, I resigned from my full-time iOS job with the idea of making a web/mobile app for async video standups. I did some traveling (China/Vietnam) while I started to work on the app, but eventually ended up back in Germany, escaping South Asia's rainy season :) The idea of async video standups started to grow on me since last December when I was in the north of Brazil. I w…

I like the concept but I do struggle with the price point for 1.5 minute videos per day.

so what's the price where you will sign up right now?

if I lower it to $3/user/month, will you sign up right now?

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by dang »

dstik wrote: post #65
bdagnino wrote: post #62

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Hi Dstik, being 100% candid, I don´t really understand from your landing what the product does =/

Hey bdagnino, we definitely need to work on that :) Tape is a video-based communication tool for remote teams using the story-format for consumption. Starting a tape is as easy as sending a snap (with a subject line), replies are threaded inline (think email meets stories) which results in clearer communication and better team chemistry as you get more "face-time" with your remote colleagues. Currently, organizations…

You crossed into spamming a long time ago in this thread. It's fine to link to your own work if it's relevant and part of an interesting conversation. It's not fine to hijack conversations for promotion. Please don't do that.

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by fgheorghe »

soneca wrote: post #46
jpincheira wrote: post #6

Hi HN! I'm JP, founder of Standups.io. Last March, I resigned from my full-time iOS job with the idea of making a web/mobile app for async video standups. I did some traveling (China/Vietnam) while I started to work on the app, but eventually ended up back in Germany, escaping South Asia's rainy season :) The idea of async video standups started to grow on me since last December when I was in the north of Brazil. I w…

Awesome! Good idea, great execution! I am also a brazilian (you too, right?) solo founder ( https://www.oneonemeeting.com/ , for one-on-one meetings); although I am keeping my day job. We are forming a group of indie hackers around here in São Paulo to keep in touch. It seems you are in Germany now, but if you are interested, let me know! Email in the profile! Good luck!

Cool app!

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by bastijn »

confiscate wrote: post #82
brightball wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the concept but I do struggle with the price point for 1.5 minute videos per day.

so what's the price where you will sign up right now? if I lower it to $3/user/month, will you sign up right now?

$3/user/month would signal to me to walk away. You can't possibly sustain at that rate if you ask me making investing in use of your tool a risk. Good software costs money, and deserves money, don't lower your prices too much. Consider them carefully.

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by bastijn »

For enterprises you could consider adding an enterprise pricing option with on-prem hosting. Standups discuss IP and a lot of companies never let IP out of premise/DMZ. Especially not in stored format.

You needn't even have it yet, you can use the pricing option to see if you can catch a big fish who wants to pay for your development of it. (of course you bring that different but it works the same).

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by jasonkester »

confiscate wrote: post #82
brightball wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the concept but I do struggle with the price point for 1.5 minute videos per day.

so what's the price where you will sign up right now? if I lower it to $3/user/month, will you sign up right now?

No. never lower your prices because of a comment here. There will always be some cheapskate engineer here telling you your thing is too expensive.

That's fine. He is not your customer.

Your customer is businesses with money. Businesses that have seven dollars.

Those businesses, by the way, will just as happily spend $20/seat/month because that also rounds to zero for them. You can experiment with charging them that if you like. But whatever you do don't lower your prices. They're too cheap already.

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by Brotkrumen »

iv597 wrote: post #69
brightball wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the concept but I do struggle with the price point for 1.5 minute videos per day.

I crunched the math earlier and it's something like... 35c a day for a reasonably standard North American tech worker workyear? Doesn't seem that bad, especially to avoid the hassles of coordinating remote teams' standups (hell, even some colocated teams could benefit from this).

Let's be real here: this is an enthusiast price point. Very few decently sized sized teams will want to fit a 100$ a month into their budget for this little value add.

This is maybe even the point: fewer but enthusiastic customers to gather relevant feedback.

Haven't seen the ability to host the videos locally, so serious developers are out too. Potentially broadcasting valuable info isn't a big selling point.

Re: Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

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Post by confiscate »

jasonkester wrote: post #88
confiscate wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so what's the price where you will sign up right now? if I lower it to $3/user/month, will you sign up right now?

No. never lower your prices because of a comment here. There will always be some cheapskate engineer here telling you your thing is too expensive. That's fine. He is not your customer. Your customer is businesses with money. Businesses that have seven dollars. Those businesses, by the way, will just as happily spend $20/seat/month because that also rounds to zero for them. You can experiment with charging them that i…

Yes I already know that. I was trying to show brightball his comment about "price too high" is ridiculous

If $7 / month is too high, then any price below $7 is too high.

He should just outright say he wanted it for free, instead of complaining about price

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