Show IH: What Got Done
by Michael LynchOne habit I've found helpful as a developer is to take a few minutes at the end of each week to write down what I accomplished that week. Otherwise, I find it too easy to focus on things I got stuck on, and I lose sight of how much progress I made.
When working with teammates, these notes become a way for me to keep in sync with my teammates. They can see things like my code commits or my emails, but when I write a summary, they have a better sense of how I spent my week and what I was working towards.
For the past year, I've done this with Google Docs, but I spent the past two months building a purpose-built app, What Got Done. I'm debuting it on Indie Hackers:
I'd love to hear feedback about whether this product is useful or what features you'd like to see. And if you're interested in using this product at work, I'd love to talk to you.
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Great name and domain.
The pain point that you're solving is literally the question "what got done this week?" and it's in the name of your product. The value is communicated immediately.
The weekly update is a good angle, and many teams overlook it because they do daily standups instead. The purpose is different though, and I think you can actually promote weekly updates (as a philosophy) as an alternative to the hamster wheel of daily standup updates (that are too granular and nobody reads them) .
For teams that are glued to Slack, you could consider making a slack bot that posts the weekly summaries, to complement your email summaries feature.
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On second thought, instead of a Slack integration, you could make a Zapier integration as a Pro feature, and let the user decide where the summaries should be sent/posted.
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Thanks for checking it out! I really like your idea of Zapier integration. I've added that to the top of my internal build list.
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I agree especially when it comes to small things/ and stuff that are concrete. I write down almost every small fix in trello so I can actually properly gauge what I've done.
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Congrats Michael!
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Thanks, Nate! And thanks again for beta testing!
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Congratulations!
To-do lists are great for managing what you will do, but they do a poor job of communicating what you accomplished.
What Got Done lets you write updates your way, highlighting what's important instead of forcing your teammates to dig through a list of checkboxes.
^ This copy from your landing page definitely resonates with me. We all have tasks we get done that weren't on a todo list, or that don't deserve a full-on meeting to update teammates about. Putting them in Slack feels like you're asking your teammates to acknowledge or respond, so I tend not to put them there either and they just get lost. I really like the idea of having a dedicated website like this where teammates (or anyone else who wants) can come to see updates at their leisure, without being pushy.
Looking forward to posting more updates about my side-projects on What Got Done here: https://whatgotdone.com/dtq
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Thanks, David! And thanks for getting me up and running with UserKit. For anyone interested in a painless way of setting up user sign-in for their app, talk to @dtq. It's the easiest authentication system I've ever used.
Fun fact: you currently are in the lead for most updates (among people who are not me) at 2.
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Nice! Looking forward to moving up the leader board as I work more on stuff I can post publicly :)
(And thanks for the shout-out)
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Nothing is as simple as it seems!
If you're sincerely interested in the process of building it and not just trolling, you can actually read all of my updates where I documented what I did week by week. They start here:
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