Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
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Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
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#2God I hate OKRs and think they're one of the best ways to kill your startup. ("There is only one Goal" from the cover of The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt)
If I am working at a place that wants me to write OKRs I will be very happy to have something like this to help me out.
Re: Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
#3God I hate OKRs and think they're one of the best ways to kill your startup. ("There is only one Goal" from the cover of The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt) If I am working at a place that wants me to write OKRs I will be very happy to have something like this to help me out.
Thanks for the feedback. Part of the motivation was to remove the pain out of having to figure out what your OKRs should look like.
It won't be perfect, but usually the AI can come up with a good draft.
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#4Gpt4 writes mine.
Hate that bullshit
Re: Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
#5God I hate OKRs and think they're one of the best ways to kill your startup. ("There is only one Goal" from the cover of The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt) If I am working at a place that wants me to write OKRs I will be very happy to have something like this to help me out.
OKRs are another victim of semantic diffusion by consultants and others cutting corners and missing the philosophy of them.
Done properly they should be the equivalent of "we're gonna slam dunk this thing we think is important to do by smashing these X and Y targets" so everyone high fives and is super pumped and energised making it happen.
Now they've turned into "you should do this because we tell you to and we will track you as you do it" and so everyone feels like they have no autonomy.
Re: Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
#6Nice one. Maybe you put on some templates followed by famous companies, or get it to collect some info about the company to easily generate em
Re: Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
#7God I hate OKRs and think they're one of the best ways to kill your startup. ("There is only one Goal" from the cover of The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt) If I am working at a place that wants me to write OKRs I will be very happy to have something like this to help me out.
OKRs are another victim of semantic diffusion by consultants and others cutting corners and missing the philosophy of them. Done properly they should be the equivalent of "we're gonna slam dunk this thing we think is important to do by smashing these X and Y targets" so everyone high fives and is super pumped and energised making it happen. Now they've turned into "you should do this because we tell you to and we wil…
My take is the opposite, I’ve been asked to make up 20 OKRs for myself (the only real corporate “goal” is “make 20 OKRs”. If I had a small number of goals that were clearly linked to the business that would be one thing, but with a large number of bullshit goals many of them would fall by the wayside, particularly when “drop everything for customer X” was a common occurrence.
I didn’t really mind the “drop everything” bit, we were looking for product-market fit after all, but when performance reviews come around and I killed 3 of those goals, sofa kind did 7 and spaced 10 it’s a situation where narcissists will convince management is half full and that mine is half empty.
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#8Having to write OKRs makes me feel like I'm trapped in a satirical comedy. The work means nothing and the meta work means even less. This adds another layer that has me looking around for the cameras.
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#9Nice one. Maybe you put on some templates followed by famous companies, or get it to collect some info about the company to easily generate em
We've tried to find some public templates but Gitlab was pretty much the only one having public OKRs[1].
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
OKRs are another victim of semantic diffusion by consultants and others cutting corners and missing the philosophy of them. Done properly they should be the equivalent of "we're gonna slam dunk this thing we think is important to do by smashing these X and Y targets" so everyone high fives and is super pumped and energised making it happen. Now they've turned into "you should do this because we tell you to and we wil…
My take is the opposite, I’ve been asked to make up 20 OKRs for myself (the only real corporate “goal” is “make 20 OKRs”. If I had a small number of goals that were clearly linked to the business that would be one thing, but with a large number of bullshit goals many of them would fall by the wayside, particularly when “drop everything for customer X” was a common occurrence. I didn’t really mind the “drop everything…
I hear you. I think OKRs suffer from having a lot of literature covering the surface (benefits of OKRs, general definitions, success stories...) but not a lot of content providing a prescriptive approach.
To me it feels a bit like structuring a JS/TS app. You've got powerful tools, but it can quickly become a mess without a good structure around it.
My general recommendation: no one should have more than 7 KRs to track on a weekly basis. And an OKR plan should be a 3x4 matrix: 3 Objectives and 4 KRs/Objective.