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We started by focusing on bringing big company scheduling technology to small…",{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},"13368781","Our goal is to create flexibility for workers. We looked at why so many companies still used pen and paper scheduling, and built a product for that market. We found in user tests…",{"value":56,"source":47,"evidence":57},"Small businesses with hourly workers, such as service and call center staff, and workers on prepaid phones",[58,59],{"id":50,"by":11,"text":51},{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},{"value":61,"source":47,"evidence":62},"Many businesses still run on pen and paper, and workers lack email",[63,64],{"id":50,"by":11,"text":51},{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},[],"unknown","launched","company",{"praise":70,"objections":98,"requests":119,"questions":139,"alternatives":148},[71,83],{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"Good focus on users who are not heavy online users","commenter",[75,79],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"13368835","martinald","Well done Phillip. I think you should be commended for actually going back and finding the deeper reasons, rather than doing the usual throw more marketing $\u002Fhire expensive sales…",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"13371020","nickpsecurity","\"We found in user tests that many employees don't have email, and even run on prepaid phones.\" Anyone reading along should remember this point. It's worth remembering because…",{"value":84,"source":73,"evidence":85},"Useful for shift workers who miss schedule updates",[86,90,94],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"13368588","davis_m","This looks like a great idea. There were a few times I got in trouble at work in high school because I didn't see updates my boss had made after I checked the schedule. This…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"13368960","awad","This is fantastic! I can see this being helpful to shift workers. Really applaud the process you took to arrive at the big opportunity.",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"13368832","Zikes","Some types of employees have very irregular schedules, which can vary on a week-to-week basis. Right now, the most common solution is to review the \"master schedule\", usually a…",[99,112],{"value":100,"source":73,"evidence":101},"Could let employers schedule workers more strictly and hurt low-wage workers",[102,106,109],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"13369751","lovich","As someone who ended up working in a company with \"dynamic scheduling\" after college, i.e. Walmart and call centers, I have an ethical problem with this product. Many workers at…",{"id":107,"by":104,"text":108},"13369830","My point is that managers are already manually scheduling employees on a way that hurts the employee but benefits the company. The inability to guaruntee that scheduling updates…",{"id":110,"by":104,"text":111},"13379666","It's unethical to continue to give more and more power to one side in a situation where that side is already overpowered. Businesses may have a legitimate need to reschedule but…",{"value":113,"source":73,"evidence":114},"Workers may not want work messages on personal phones",[115],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"13368718","untilHellbanned","i mean do employees really want to deal with work stuff via text message too? We have email, calendars, various video and chat messaging apps, old fashion face-to-face…",[120,128],{"value":121,"source":73,"evidence":122},"Shift swapping and job assignment",[123,124],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"13371479","chatmasta","It would be nice if you could post incoming jobs to the API, and any staff members currently available could accept\u002Fdecline the jobs (like uber does). 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You can see our stuff here:…",[140,144],{"value":141,"source":73,"evidence":142},"How will they market to small businesses that are hard to reach",[143],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},{"value":145,"source":73,"evidence":146},"Does it offer call-center style schedule simulation",[147],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},[149,156,163],{"value":150,"source":73,"evidence":151},"Calendar invites and intranets",[152],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"13368866","tabeth","I'm not familiar with this, but how is this better than just using calendar invites and an intranet? (Can't access the link currently, pardon me if this is addressed on the…",{"value":157,"source":73,"evidence":158},"SMS Inbox",[159],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"13370503","napoleond","BTW, this might simplify the rollout of conversational UI: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.smsinbox.net I built it last year. 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