Satndsly
Turn your work history into clear standups
Most standup tools begin with a blank question:
What did you work on?
That sounds simple, but the answer is usually scattered across GitHub, Jira, meetings, and smaller tasks.
Standsly takes a different approach.
It brings your work activity into one place, where you can quickly:
Confirm what matters
Edit missing context
Skip irrelevant activity
Generate a clear standup
The goal is not to capture everything. It is to help you keep the right context without reconstructing your week from scratch.
Confirm your work. Don’t reconstruct it.
Standsly is live now at standsly.com.
By the end of most weeks, my work was scattered across GitHub, Jira, meetings, and smaller tasks.
The work was done, but writing a standup still meant opening several tools and trying to reconstruct everything from memory.
That is why I built Standsly.
It helps you:
Log work manually or capture it from connected tools
Review and confirm what matters
Generate daily standups, weekly summaries, and 1:1 preparation
Copy or share the final update to Slack
The goal is simple: you should not have to rediscover work you have already completed.
Standsly is now live, and I would value honest feedback from people who regularly write standups or progress updates.
How do you currently keep track of what you worked on during the week?
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"Turn your work history" speaks to the individual developer who wants to look productive. But the buyer who pays for standup tools is the engineering manager who needs automated team reports, not personal summaries. The manager wants to see what their 8-person team did yesterday without reading 8 Slack threads. Your page sells to the employee. The manager — who holds the budget — thinks "this is a personal productivity hack, not a team tool.
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That’s a fair point, and it’s exactly why a team layer is already on our roadmap.
Standsly is individual-first today so the underlying work context is accurate and user-controlled. The next step is to turn that into concise team digests for managers, one clear view of what the team moved forward, without reading eight separate threads or creating a surveillance tool.
We’re validating the individual workflow first, then building the team reporting layer on top of it.
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That makes sense from a product perspective — but there’s an interesting GTM risk in that sequencing.
If you lead with individual users, you’ll mostly attract people who don’t have budget authority, and their usage patterns won’t fully reflect what managers actually care about (clarity, alignment, reporting consistency).
In a lot of cases, the “team layer” isn’t just a feature on top — it’s the reason the product gets bought in the first place.
I’ve seen similar tools work well by:
• still using the individual experience as the data source
• but packaging + messaging it as “instant team visibility without standups” from day oneThat way you’re validating with the actual buyer while building the same underlying system.
Curious — have you had any managers interact with it yet, even in a lightweight way?
If helpful, I can share how I’d position this to land engineering managers earlier without turning it into a surveillance tool — feels very doable from what you’ve already built.
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Curious where the pain has actually been strongest for early users.
Is it forgetting what they did, or knowing perfectly well what they did but spending too much time turning it into an update someone else can consume?
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Good question. From the conversations we’ve had so far, both pains exist, but the bigger one is usually turning scattered work into a concise update others can quickly understand.
People remember the major tasks, but smaller contributions get lost across GitHub, Jira, meetings, and Slack. Standsly captures that context first, then helps turn it into a focused update. We’re still early, so we’re closely watching which part drives the strongest repeat usage.
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I appreciate you unpacking that. The question of which part actually earns the repeat usage is what caught my attention.
I'd be interested in continuing the conversation by email if you're open to it. What's the best email to reach you on?
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Absolutely, I’d be happy to continue the conversation. Indie Hackers doesn’t allow contact details to be shared directly in comments, but you can find the best email address on the Privacy page of the Standsly website.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.
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This is something I really need, I always forget things, sometimes I even have to do things multiple times because I don't know how much progress I had made before.
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That’s exactly the problem Standsly is meant to solve. It’s not only about writing standups, it’s about keeping a reliable record of what you did, where you left off, and how much progress you made.
Avoiding duplicated work is a great use case, and one we’ll explore more deeply as we improve work history and search.
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