HeySync
Your Calendly-like link for async tasks
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March 16, 2023
Feedback wanted for HeySync.co - async task management and scheduling.
Hi folks,
I built HeySync to scratch my own itch - getting control of requests from colleagues, and prioritizing and blocking time in my calendar to get these done.
HeySync provides a Calendly-like link which can be shared with colleagues or clients to request you to complete a task (e.g. review a document). HeySync allows you to triage the tasks from a simple dashboard, and schedule time in your calendar to spend addressing the task at the click of a button.
As someone who works mostly async, I believe this could be useful for others who work in async workplaces/environments, e.g. freelancers or developers.
I'd love feedback for:
- Does this idea sound useful to you specifically? If not, are there specific personas that this could be useful to?
- If you are interested in signing up, feedback on whether it actually helps you.
- Any bugs/feature requests for active users.
- If you think this is just plain stupid.
Thanks!
1 Comment
I can confirm the problem exists. Oftentimes, colleagues will contact me on Mattermost (a Slack alternative) asking me to do something, and I find it cumbersome and error-prone to have to manage these tasks separately from emails (I strive for Inbox Zero) and Jira issues.
However, I doubt that your approach with links would work for me. If I can't get colleagues to send emails or assign issues for async tasks, I'm sure they would not use a HeySync link either.
What could work IMO is a tool that has a bunch of integrations and allows me to convert any kind of task to another. Example: have a Mattermost/Slack/Discord bot command that will turn the last message sent to me on the channel I entered it into a Jira issue without me having to copy-paste stuff.