How do you keep track of accomplishments at work?
Hey guys!
First post here, 🎉! Long story short, I work at a large F500 company and I hate performance review season.
It's a complete time suck and I always forget the small wins. As a manager, it's also impossible to keep track of everyone's feedback throughout the year.
So I started building Handily, an app to help me and my team remember accomplishments and give feedback in real time.
My question is-- does anyone else have this problem? Would you use a tool like Handily?
I too work at a F500 company and if there is something I've learned from working at 3 F100 companies. Is that they LOVE LOVE LOVE excel. Might want to have an export function
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I think this is a solid idea. I most certainly think you can get enough teams on board to make great money with this. Good work.
I typically keep a txt file that I write to with everything I consider positive movement. I wrote about it here. Basically its a command that opens a text file on my command line so I never lose my flow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17538697
On another note, How you get these cool simple ui screenshots? Is this Sketch?
Actually came across your article a couple weeks ago! I was trying migrate from Evernote to a more simple, terminal based tool. Small world
Yup, designed the UI in Sketch, using a custom version of Atomize. It's like Bootstrap for Sketch. Link - http://atomizedesign.com
thanks for the recs.
It feels like your project would appeal to managers like yourself and maybe, that requires specific copy that targets them - your copy seems to target the actual individual contributor.
If you look at https://www.reflektive.com/ they mention "Build a culture of feedback" and https://www.15five.com/ mentions most quickly "Unlock the Potential of Your Entire Workforce". The benefits are clearly manager and company focused.
Obviously your product is different but I would venture to try a copy that highlights your specific goals "Harness a culture of celebration", "Always celebrate the small wins". You can play around with how this appeals to yourself because ultimately, it may be a manager making the purchase decision and they'll need the talking points to sell this to their team.
You are spot on. My biggest challenge for the MVP is figuring out which users to target -- individuals, managers or the entire HR department.
My current plan is to start off small, with basic features targeting individual users for MVP. Then build more elaborate features for teams + company in subsequent releases
totally. being focused is the only way to work. if you build an ability to curl POST my did.txt file or just allow for a single line value post request, im 100% there.
Hi,
I am also a manager in a F500 company and I would say I have experienced this problem before. (BTW, I am a Product Manager, not a developer if that makes any difference.)
Would I use Handily? Your site looks great, beautiful graphics, I immediately have a sense of how to use the tool. However, a few ideas do come to mind that you could consider...
At the end of the year, I usually end up scrolling through the year's email to find all the compliments for work well done. Wonder if there is a way that someone could 'mark' an email in Outlook or something and then have it integrate directly into Handily? That would definitely save me time.
I do think the UI looks great, but I would personally gravitate to something even more basic. I don't need any more apps. I have too many already. Maybe something like the simplest of post-it notes or some quick note taking app.
Anyway, hope this is helpful to you in some way.
-Pmox2018