Elevate Developer Experience (DX) with every one-on-one meeting. Build a vibrant and committed engineering team by improving happiness, fostering collaboration, and optimizing productivity.
Hello, Product Hunt community! 👋
I'm Tomek, the founder of HAY.
From research and documentation to coding and deployment, developers often encounter many challenges that make creating software confusing, difficult, and joyless. This experience not only hampers productivity but could also jeopardize the end product.
That’s why I'm thrilled to introduce HAY’s DX Platform, our solution that helps EMs and Tech Leads build high-performing engineering teams by optimizing work output, enhancing wellbeing, and fostering teamwork.
I'm super excited to hear your thoughts, feedback, and questions. Let's improve DX and bring empowerment, support, and motivation back to building software.
I'm all for ideas that boost team morale and productivity, which is why I'm hitting the upvote. It's like finding that secret sauce that makes work not only efficient but also more satisfying for everyone involved.
how user-friendly is the platform for managers not so tech-savvy? Can they get it rolling without a hitch?
@aman_wen Hi Aman, yes! Thank you for the support! We did quite a bit of research with engineering managers of all types. We got great feedback from them. Feel free to check it out - we welcome your feedback, too!
The emphasis on one-on-one meetings as a catalyst for improving DX is noteworthy. These meetings provide a valuable opportunity for managers and developers to connect on a personal level, address concerns, provide feedback, and align goals.
Platform seems like a comprehensive approach to improving developer experience and team collaboration. How does your platform measure and track changes in developer wellbeing and productivity? Additionally, are there specific features that promote teamwork and foster a positive engineering culture?
@r_martirosyan Thanks for the support, Roman! In terms of productivity, we leverage GitHub analytics with a GitHub integration; and for wellbeing, we use a Slack plug-in to check up on morale and satisfaction. We make sure all this centers around productive, forward-focused 1:1 meetings.
Congratulations on the launch! Looks like a useful tool to help make team members more happy and productive.
Interested to know if the amount of code in commits is taken into account?
Seems like a great idea! We can really have great colleagues, but lose them to burnout, so it's nice to have a tool to catch the problem before it's too late.
To be honest, I think it can be used in other industries too. For example, I know that people in marketing tend to overwork, managing all possible marketing channels every day 🤔
Anyway, great job and congratulations on the launch!
@michaelshver Thanks Michael! Definitely, and making sure that wellbeing and happiness are checked is super important. In fact, it appears to play a huge role as to why devs quit OR quit their managers as they fail to address important work-life balance issues and satisfaction.
Really interesting approach! Boosting and maintaining team’s productivity is a permanent challenge. Does your tool offer some ideas for improvement when the team’s performance is lagging behind?
@shambalyov Thank you for showing interest! We try to look at everything in context, and when certain risk factors appear, we address them in a 1:1 meeting. Of course, addressing this might be a challenge but with honest and open feedback, EMs should have enough data at their fingertips to tackle any problem.
I'm always hesitant with any reporting dashboard that is surfacing metrics such as number of commits / developer. This ultimately gets extrapolated to represent individual developer productivity and it's a really poor placeholder metric for that. Engineers who take a greater responsibility in tasks such as: unblocking others, mentoring juniors, interviewing, architecting, review and even engineers who take small easily shippable tasks, or vanity commits for metrics (fixed typo) come out looking more productive in this system.
Sure, I like how your tool reaches out to individuals and collects personalised feedback from individual contributors. But surfacing commits as "work output" there at the top of your page, just icks me.
@jamie_hunt Thank you for your feedback. You made some great points. I've seen in the past many tools used but instead of empowering developers, the tools are used to oppress. We always encourage EMs to look at productivity data in context and look at the developer more holistically.
Congratulations on a successful launch on PH. If it is useful for you, here is a detailed report for your landing page content here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/.... If that is cumbersome, you can also find a summary here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/.... Hope this is useful to you.
Congratulations on the launch of HAY's DX Platform, Tomek and Mareta! 🚀
Improving developer experience and enhancing teamwork are crucial aspects for a successful engineering team. How do you envision HAY's DX Platform evolving in the future to further optimize productivity and happiness within dev teams?
Looking forward to seeing the impact of your innovative solution on the tech community!
This is such a cool product. Just out of curiosity, when you detect that a coworker is getting close to burn out, what have you found works best to help them?
@jakepage Thanks for showing interest! Actually, we designed it hoping we wouldn't get there with certain checks and balances along the way with pulse checks and seeing productivity slumps. Our best tool is probably the 1:1, which helps to gain more wellbeing insights, and all the data that EMs gather up to that moment.
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