Ask HN: Individual performance tracking tool for small startup

1 pointsOmegaPG4y ago5 comments

We are a SaaS company of 12 and because everyone is working from home, it is getting very difficult to track individual performance on daily and weekly basis.

Ideally we are looking for following features

1. User put the daily tasks he will be working on when he starts the day 2. At the end of the day, he will put what he did along with what results he got 3. We can send users emails every day /week about update reminders and weekly reports.

I searched in Google but most of the tools looked to be targeted towards enterprise. May I know what tools you are using and any recommendations for small startups?

5 comments

santa_boy4y ago

We use Notion a lot at our tiny startup. Over the past few months we have created atleast 20 "templates" to do a variety of tasks. Still need to commercialize them, but we built them to use ourselves.

They work awesome and being able to manage all information (various types) in a single place is proving to be incredibly effective!

OmegaPGOP4y ago

But I can't send email reminders with Notion, right? Also I think we can't make weekly reports in Notion.

I am thinking of using Microsoft Teams or will try to create a simple app by myself as last option.

santa_boy4y ago

Very good point ... get where you are coming from.

I've created some cool automations for them. Feel free to ping me at santosh AT mypad.in

Notion is awesome because of its usability. It allows you to centralize most content types. Extremely good collaboration functionality. Accessibility is fantastic.

For custom requirements (80% of the time), I have my automations to figure out a very good solution.

ctoth4y ago

It kinda sounds like you could accomplish this with a dedicated chat channel.

PaulHoule4y ago

My last two workplaces had a slack channel where people are encouraged to say what they did yesterday (labeled "Y") and say what they plan to do today (labeled "T".)

I can't quite stand to do that so instead at the end of the day I write "what I did" and "what I plan to do"; that way I can write it when what I did was fresh in my head and when my head is full of next steps.

Big picture I think "individual performance" isn't the way to think about it for small teams since it is the performance of the team you want to maximize.

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Ask HN: Individual performance tracking tool for small startup

1 pointsOmegaPG4y ago5 comments

We are a SaaS company of 12 and because everyone is working from home, it is getting very difficult to track individual performance on daily and weekly basis.

Ideally we are looking for following features

I searched in Google but most of the tools looked to be targeted towards enterprise. May I know what tools you are using and any recommendations for small startups?

5 comments

santa_boy4y ago

They work awesome and being able to manage all information (various types) in a single place is proving to be incredibly effective!

OmegaPGOP4y ago

But I can't send email reminders with Notion, right? Also I think we can't make weekly reports in Notion.

I am thinking of using Microsoft Teams or will try to create a simple app by myself as last option.

santa_boy4y ago

Very good point ... get where you are coming from.

I've created some cool automations for them. Feel free to ping me at santosh AT mypad.in

Notion is awesome because of its usability. It allows you to centralize most content types. Extremely good collaboration functionality. Accessibility is fantastic.

For custom requirements (80% of the time), I have my automations to figure out a very good solution.

ctoth4y ago

It kinda sounds like you could accomplish this with a dedicated chat channel.

PaulHoule4y ago

My last two workplaces had a slack channel where people are encouraged to say what they did yesterday (labeled "Y") and say what they plan to do today (labeled "T".)

Big picture I think "individual performance" isn't the way to think about it for small teams since it is the performance of the team you want to maximize.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse