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Ken Tan

Maxium AI (Beta) - Optimise developer efficiency, going beyond lines of code

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Maxium gives you real-time insights on your engineering team by categorising code changes and estimating the effort required to put them together as a function of their actual context. Gain insights on your engineering team today!

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Ken Tan
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Hello Product Hunters! Thanks for stopping by and being a part of our Maxium launch! 🚀 🤔 The problem Developer measurement and insights sucks, period. Anyone who have been in an engineering team knows that LOC and number of commits as a measure of engineering effort is broken. Story points, DORA and Space metrics are deterministic and a subpar way of “gauging” engineering resources. And they are not designed for contractors. However, engineers today are being measured and evaluated as so. This leads to a highly dysfunctional culture of “gameing” the metrics, over/underestimation of tasks and dreadful “alignment meetings and check-ins”. For leaders, this results in poor control and understanding of engineering resources, timelines, suboptimal development cycles and high turnovers. 🧠 Solution Maxium is an engineering intelligence tool. We've built a model that measures and scores each pull request as a function of the context of the code change itself (end-to-end development effort). Maxium aggregates these scores and data to generate actionable insights, in real-time for your engineering team. Gain insights on what development areas are being worked on or how impactful an engineers work is on the broader team. With Maxium, you can now have a complete understanding on your development progress, bottlenecks and take actions on them. Say bye to alignment meetings and guesstimates. Gain 100% clarity on your engineering effort today! We will love to hear any thoughts or feedback! Sign-in now and get immediate insights on past PRs and engineering work in 1-click. Please leave a comment, share your thoughts, ask questions or connect with us directly at founders@maxium.ai and let’s chat! Let’s build a more equitable and fairer way to measure + manage your engineering team, together🚀
Max Savonin
@kenz0 Maxium's focus on measuring engineering effort beyond traditional metrics like LOC or story points is an interesting approach. The emphasis on context-aware analysis and actionable insights could be valuable for engineering teams and leaders. Here are some questions for further exploration: - How does Maxium ensure the privacy and security of individual developer data within a team environment? - How does Maxium address potential biases in its model that could unfairly evaluate certain types of work or development styles? - Does Maxium integrate with existing developer workflows and code management tools? As a developer with experience in data analysis and machine learning, I'm interested in how Maxium works. Here are some potential areas for collaboration: - Contributing to the development and refinement of Maxium's AI model for more accurate and unbiased effort assessment. - Enhancing the visualization of engineering team insights to provide actionable data for leaders and developers. - Exploring ways to integrate Maxium with popular developer tools and platforms for seamless workflow integration. I'd love to learn more about Maxium's technical architecture and explore opportunities to contribute to its development. Additionally, I'm interested in trying out Maxium to see how it can provide more objective and data-driven insights into our engineering team's work.
Ken Tan
Maker
@a_zelenkov Thanks Alexander! Love for you to try it out in your teams and let us know what you think. Takes ~ 1min to onboard and doesn't affect your dev workflow (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). We speak to all our users right now so looking forward to chatting soon!
Alexander William Hawkins
💡 Bright idea
Hey Ken! This sounds like a much-needed tool for dev teams. Quick question - can it integrate with existing project management tools like Jira or Trello? And does it provide any specific metrics for contractor work? Good luck on the launch.
Ahmed Aly
Maker
@alexanderwilliamhawkins Hi Alex! Right now you can integrate it with Github as an app and it will be a couple of clicks to do so. In the near-term, as we craft the next generation tool to manage your engineering team, we will integrate seamlessly with other platforms and tools across your project management stack to unlock more insights. Github app link: https://github.com/apps/maxium-bot
Ghost Kitty
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Ken Tan
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@zulkarnaim Thank you so much! Only one way up!
Ghost Kitty
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Maximillian Angel
Congratulations! About time change is made to existing superficial metrics. Ready to see some real productivity. Wishing you the best.
Ken Tan
Maker
@mangeliab Thanks Maximillian!:) Feel free to try out our tool in your teams here:) It's a simple GitHub sign-in that takes ~1min and runs non-invasively with your workflow. Curious to hear what you think! https://www.maxium.ai/?ref=produ...
Bob Gregor
Congrats! Huge respect for founders who are actively looking for feedback, and slowly helping mature an industry. Onwards!
Ken Tan
Maker
@bob_gregor And thanks Bob for always being there for us! Your support has been super helpful for us in our journey thus far and I hope we can continue getting it as well:) Appreciate you!
Fahd X
This should be the game changer!
Ken Tan
Maker
@fahd_x Thanks Fahd!
Kyrylo Silin
Hey Ken, How does Maxium AI handle different types of code changes, like refactoring versus new feature development? Do you see any challenges in getting buy-in from engineering teams that are used to the older metrics? Congrats on the launch!
Ken Tan
Maker
@kyrylosilin Maxium does this by weighing the effort needed for either based on the actual code change/written itself. With regards to challenges, for sure. But with how inaccurate older metrics are in measuring and improving, most teams we speak to have either abandon it or are tracking it BUT not finding it very useful. That's where we come in.
Yahor Barkouski
Congrats on the launch guys:) Love the way you built it, best luck!
Ken Tan
Maker
@mantegna Thanks Yahor!
Richard Song
Congrats on the launch, @kenz0! The idea of moving beyond traditional metrics like LOC and commits is revolutionary. Real-time insights on engineering effort can truly optimize workflows. Any plans to integrate with tools like Jira or Trello to provide a more comprehensive view of project management? Looking forward to seeing how Maxium evolves.
Ken Tan
Maker
@renchu_song For sure. Integrating with tools like these are essential to fit into the workflows of engineers. Will be coming real soon;)
Eric
Congrats on launching Maxium! The context-based scoring for pull requests is a game-changer for engineering teams. It’s refreshing to see a focus on meaningful metrics. Can you share more about how Maxium identifies bottlenecks and what kind of actionable steps it suggests to resolve them? @kenz0
Majid Izadi
Congratulations on the launch, cool idea, great job by you and your team. good luck today and wish the best for you.
Ken Tan
Maker
@m4jiz Thank you Majid!
Stepan Solodnev
Launching soon!
Maxium AI Beta has proven to be an exceptional addition to my toolkit. The app utilizes cutting-edge artificial intelligence to handle complex tasks and deliver actionable insights with impressive accuracy. Its intuitive design ensures that even users with minimal technical expertise can harness its powerful features effectively. The ability to customize workflows and automate repetitive tasks has significantly reduced my workload and improved overall productivity. Additionally, the app’s real-time analytics and detailed reporting capabilities are game-changers for strategic decision-making. Maxium AI Beta has become indispensable for optimizing operations and staying ahead in a competitive environment.
Ken Tan
Maker
@solodnev Thanks Stepan! If you are running an engineering team or are part of one that could find Maxium interesting, do try us out! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). Love to hear your thoughts!:)
André J
I Digg it! but also it would be great to address the happiness aspect of productivity. Being up 20% WoW in productivity is moot if your happiness is down 3000% and you quit because you want to just enjoy coding. It's like the Apple Watch once you track your performance, it's very addictive. And you'll get fit. but eventually your like, ehh, I rather just enjoy the workout. and you still track, but you don't try to beat some ever increasing high score.
Ken Tan
Maker
@sentry_co You can actually gamify this with some of your teammates to see who scores better each week! We have seen some of our user teams use it like this and it has been a great, friendly competition too that makes engineering fun!
Kevin Burnett
@kenz0 engineering is already fun
Ahmed Aly
Maker
@burnett couldn’t agree more 👨‍💻
AwesomeYang
Maxium AI tackles the frustration of traditional engineering metrics by providing real-time insights based on code context. This means you can finally ditch those endless alignment meetings and focus on what truly matters—understanding your team's progress and bottlenecks. Excited to see how it transforms developer efficiency!
Ken Tan
Maker
@awesomeyang Exactly! We want to cut down repetitive alignment meetings (that we all hate) so engineers and engineering managers can focus on building and making actions that are driven by accurate, reliable metrics. If you are running an engineering team or are part of one that could find Maxium interesting, do try us out! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). Takes about ~1mins to sign-in and runs in the background so it doesn't affect your daily workflow.
Isaac Heng Wai
Congrats on the launch! Can't wait to test this out soon.
Ken Tan
Maker
@isaac_heng_wai I'll keep you updated Issac!:) We are making good progress. Let's chat again soon.
Prakriti Garg
Congrats on the launch Keith!
Ken Tan
Maker
@prakriti_garg1 Thank you!
Wendi
Loving the data visualization!
Ken Tan
Maker
@wendiyin Thanks a ton Wendi!
Akki shafiqullah
Congrats on the launch and big kudos!!!
Ken Tan
Maker
@akki_shafiq Thanks Akki! Cheers:)
Hassan
It's great to see such an innovative approach to measuring developer efficiency .I’m interested to know in how this tool handles diverse tech stacks. Is the evaluation mechanism adaptable for various programming languages?
Ken Tan
Maker
@has__san Yes Hassan! Maxium is tech stack agnostic and evaluates across programming languages. If you are running an engineering team or are part of one that could find Maxium interesting, love to hear your thoughts of trying it out! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...).
Dylan
Impressed with Maxium’s approach to metrics how does it different programming languages
Ken Tan
Maker
@dy_lan We are tech-stack agnostic and work across multiple programming languages. Do give us a try! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). Love to hear what you think.