Standup Jack
Productivity
team standup bot
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Idea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good branding and design.
From 2 comments
I really like the overall branding / design of this tool. Nice work. Going to give it a shot.
joslin01 on HNHistory/Back is broken. If I navigate to /faq and then use my back button, my url updates but the content doesn't. Most recent chrome stable on OSX. Cool product. I'm going to…
WesleyJohnson on HN
Objections
A bot status report is not a real stand-up meeting; stand-ups mean people physically together.
From 2 comments
Oh god. This shows a complete misunderstanding of what daily stand-ups are for. This is just a bot for daily status reports. The point of a daily stand-up meeting is to get…
wpietri on HNI appreciate that you're trying. But this misunderstanding, which you are helping support, does substantial harm to teams. I agree that some people use those questions to help…
wpietri on HN
Nobody will read the summaries.
From 2 comments
My guess is that no one would really read these standup summaries.
doseofreality on HNI was thinking the same thing. Who is really going to read these updates? If I was forced to do this at a company, I'd probably automate responses with a bot of my own. I'd call…
sadkingbilly on HN
Pricing per user is expensive for large Slack teams.
From 2 comments
$1 per user, per month? Ouch. That's a lot to bite off honestly. We have 80+ people in our slack account, but i'd maybe wanna use this for ~20 of them. Doesn't seem to support…
sic1 on HNAlso, on this note, we're in a similar situation. We have ~250 people in our Slack, but would only want this for 3-4 of them (the full time staff).
zachlatta on HN
Requests
Support for grouping answers by user.
From 1 comment
The team updates seem odd with everyone's response clobbered together. I'd much rather see the answers grouped by user rather than question.
deedubaya on HN
Add a blocker question and admin options for selecting team members.
From 2 comments
Nifty idea. Key question missing for my team: "Is any of your work blocked by someone else?"
gregshap on HNCan I ask Jack to talk to only 4 of 6 members of my team? I don't see a way to do that.
matt_morgan on HN
Questions
How does it compare to other standup bots like Geekbot or Howdy?
From 2 comments
Seems very similar to https://geekbot.io/
dksidana on HNHow does this compare to Howdy?
benwerd on HN
Alternatives named
Geekbot
From 2 comments
Seems very similar to https://geekbot.io/
dksidana on HNgeekbot also allows custom questions, multiple standups, and is free.
saiko-chriskun on HN
I Done This
From 1 comment
Reminds of https://home.idonethis.com/ except Slackified! (edit: typos)
mooreds on HN
Howdy
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Howdy?
benwerd on HN
Jell
From 1 comment
Disclaimer: I've been working on a similar product (https://jell.com) We don't have a bot (we do support slash commands). One thing that sticks out to me (and a lot of the other…
mmattax on HN