Hi Guys,
I have a questions for you: Do you think we need another slack bot that helps teams do remote (text-based) daily SCRUM standups, or is the market saturated?
In general, how do you think about creating a product that already has a bunch of competitors? (How much of a USP or special features do you need/want)
Thanks so much! (first post)
Jannik
Few things to consider before building a product that has a strong competitor in the market
The company I work for uses Jell and Jira.
One thing I'd really like is if Jell could connect to Jira and automatically fill in information or let me autocomplete bug/ticket numbers.
I'd love if we did text-based Scrum standups, but most Scrum teams insist on getting on a Hangout (or similar) call to connect verbally. Personally I find it annoying but I understand the reasoning. I once wrote a bot that scraped my active Trello cards and pushed a summary to Slack once a day but then we moved to verbal standups and that was that.
For me a knowledge sharing tool would be more useful. I never got any meaningful insights from a daily stand up.
With the current team I am working in we talk a lot already, so we don't see benefits in daily stand ups (we removed them). However, a tool like StackOveflow for teams https://stackoverflow.com/teams would be perfect because knowledge get easily lost and is hard to structure and maintain.
I don't see many competitors for this and we cannot use StackOverflow because we can only use on-premise tools.