Peoplebox.ai

Finally, live and #3 on PH - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/1-on-1-meeting-questions-for-managers

We built the most exhaustive list of 1-on-1 meeting questions for managers with categories, upvotes and alternatives. Launched it at multiple forums to get feedback and some activities before finally launching it on PH. The response has been amazing so far but the whole day is left. Some of the things we did really worked in favour. Will share all our learning and preparations in a couple of days.

We opened up our Manager's Tool (https://peoplebox.ai) for all a couple of weeks ago. Today we have over 100 managers doing their 1-on-1 meetings, exchanging feedback with their team and taking critical actions on Peoplebox.

Our vision is to build a tool for Managers to help them unlock their teams potential. Managers today struggle to develop highly engaged teams that can give their personal bests to achieve overall objectives. They also want to grow their teams, retain their best performers and transform their average or low performers.

Yet, there is hardly any support/ tools available to help them achieve these. To make it worse, people are becoming managers earlier than ever and have to manage a demanding millennial workforce. The result, 50% of Americans have left a job to “get away from their manager at some point in their career.”

Our goal is to empower managers to help their teams grow and succeed through meaningful 1-on-1s, continuous feedback and most importantly, actions that matters.

Why 1-on-1s? We are often asked, do managers look for a one-on-one tool? What's wrong with Apple Notes/ Google Doc? Is it a big enough market?

There are two distinct things about 1-on-1 meetings . One, its a consistent behavior in today's managers across organizations, very under-utilized and can be significantly improved. Second, it plays an extremely important role in manager's ability to improve their team's engagement & performance.

From interesting warm-up questions, to smart suggestions on what to discuss, collaborating talking points, taking shared/ private notes and most importantly tracking action items, Peoplebox helps both managers and team members in making their one-on-ones really meaningful.

Keen to get indiehackers to try it out and provide some feedback :)

A big day for us today.

After launching our closed beta and working with hundreds of managers in the last 6 months, we finally opened our Manager 1-on-1 & feedback tool for everyone - https://www.peoplebox.ai

We had been working on building the right tool for Managers that can help them unlock their teams' potential and become better leaders.

Received some amazing insights and interesting feedback from our beta managers to bring the product at this stage.

If you conduct 1-on-1s or have any direct reports, would love you to try out the product and provide some feedback.

Our aim now is to directly reach out to managers and offer a first of its kind AI tool, designed specifically for managers to build a constantly engaged and high performing team.

Would love to get some out-of-the-box ideas on how to reach out to these managers.

The period from July till September was the most powerful learning period for us. While working with HRs, managers and employees in different companies and countries, we realise a large problem that we are still not addressing in our vision of build better managers and engaged employees and built a product roadmap of our V2, which would be significantly different and "better" than our V1. Launched with the first manager and her team of 15 people today. She just loved it :). Aim to launch it to 200 managers and over 1000 employees (all existing customers) in the next 2 weeks

After months of writing code and working with a handful of customers, we finally launched our product at the world's largest HR event, SHRM, Las Vegas. We got amazing response and incredible learning. The true journey of product-market fit started from here.

Luckily, with Gods grace, funding came easy from us. We raised our 1.1 million seed round when we were just a couple of months old. Our ex YC and IIT background, along with large potential market, still in its nascent stage and the product vision helped a lot in closing the deal. At this stage we only had 3 months of money left so it was a turning point for us. First time we realised we are onto something big

We coded like crazy to built our first MVP, which was an automated employee engagement survey. This was the first step to build a software to help build better managers. First survey went to a startup with 128 people. We got an incredible 80%+ participation rate and the founder got so impressed with the tool, he recommended us to many companies including GE Digital. Never looked back since then :)

We were running a counselling startup in India helping build powerful relationships through counselling but the market size was a big concern. At this level, many organisations started approaching us to check if we can help build better relationship with the employees in the times of Millennials, Glassdoor and Talent war.

We didn't want to jump to a pivot without any homework so first found a client who would be ready to pay us if we have the product. Luckily we found it really easy and started writing the code.