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Kevin Aguirre

Standup Bot - Automated standups for Slack channels

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Stefano Cutello
Nice tool. Is it possible to do async standups (=having people submitting their standup in parallel) ? What we do @pastbook we have a #standup channel where every morning a IFTTT bot posts a message to call the standup and we all answer the 3 magic questions there, without having to wait for each other: it saves a lot of time and works like a charm. What I see interesting is the possibility to have a recap by mail then, but not sure I'd spend $20/month. Curious to see how other people here use Slack for standup meeting.
Ryan Mac
@stefanocutello IFTTT FTW. I'm going to look into that next week. Is it custom or did you follow a recipe?
Stefano Cutello
@ryanmac Custom. Trigger is time. Action is Slack post. Simple ;)
Ryan Mac
@stefanocutello Thanks. Ended up installing Howdy (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) to see how this works for our team.
Stefano Cutello
@ryanmac I checked Howdy, looks cool! I'm wondering if it's really free... / what's the business model behind it (cc @benbrown ?)
John Economou
@stefanocutello @pastbook for async I recommend to check out geekbot.io It's been out there for months and I consider it solid. (Disclaimer: I used to work there)
Yoav Anaki
I was hoping for a bot that'd tell jokes on our Slack channels. But this is cool too! :D
Corey Grusden
Maker
@yoavanaki To be honest, I really want the jokes to happen! ha. Have you been able to try out Standupbot yet??
Tommaso Barbugli
cool idea, going to give it a try with our distributed team!
Tommaso Barbugli
For me adding the credit card just to start the trial was a deal breaker
Corey Grusden
Maker
@tommasobarbugli Why is it a deal-breaker to ask for your credit card up front so that we can charge you after the 14-day trial? You can cancel prior to that 14th day.
Tommaso Barbugli
@cgrusden because it means that I have to remember to opt-out or I will pay for it for a random amount of months ;)
Corey Grusden
Maker
@tommasobarbugli I don't think you will want to cancel this :) The value is far greater than 3 coffees per month you'd be buying anyway.
Kevin Aguirre
Hunter
Why Standup Bot? Messaging tools like Slack changed our work world. Standup changed our meetings. Standup Bot keeps us accountable, tracks our goals, and got us to post our successes, plans, and upcoming challenges. (ref. http://standupbot.com/)
Guy Malachi
Cool idea!
Corey Grusden
Maker
@guy Thanks. Like I said in an above comment, we created this tool to replace a manual process we did, so we dog-food this tool everyday. It works. Do you use Slack 100% for your communication at Showbox?
Guy Malachi
@cgrusden not 100% but a lot of our internal communication is on Slack
Jonathan Fielding
I think this looks amazing however its the kind of tool that requires a full team buy in to use and I know from trying to implement other similar things that is very unlikely
Corey Grusden
Maker
@jonthanfielding Could signup for the trial and use it in a different channel wtih a few people to "test" it out for a week. The reason we built this, is because we were using it everyday before we built it and it greatly improved results. Using this bot was a quick way to get everyone on board Day 1 and since it's a bot, it's repeatable everyday and requires very little effort to have the meeting done by this bot which promotes consistency to solve the problem you're battling
Bill Lewis
Could be a game changer for virtual teams nicely done!
Corey Grusden
Maker
@workstationw It's a completely game changer. At http://sofetch.io, we're 100% remote. We use this every. single. day. It works to keep us focused as well as being able to replace certain work with higher priority work if need be for that day. Do you have, or know of any, virtual team(s) to show this to?
Tim Chilcott
@workstationw Thanks for the kind words!
Alex Mishyn
Sounds cool. Will give it a try
Corey Grusden
Maker
@amishyn Please do and let us know your results after 2-3 days!
Tim Chilcott
@amishyn Were you ever able to give this a try?
Charlie Rowat
I've used the open source version you guys put out a few months ago. Found it a bit buggy but love the concept so went to Tatsu instead. Nice to see you bring out a 'proper' version. How did you settle on the pricing? And how many people can I have in one team?
Corey Grusden
Maker
@charlesrowat Pricing was done by watching usage. As far as team-size, how big of a team are you wanting to use this with? Will you be using it in 1 chat room with your whole team, or do you have multiple Slack chat-rooms that you will be having standup in, in each one?
Rushabh Doshi
How do I stop my subscription ? I have been charged for 2 months now without using it! Kindly let me know