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StandupMail – Simple email-based productivity logging (standupmail.com)
21 points by nerdben on Sept 23, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 23 comments


This is the same as https://idonethis.com, no?


Well, we rather focus on teams than on "self-tracking".


iDoneThis is for teams as well.


So, I really like this idea. It's similar to https://www.workingon.co

I like the idea of an e-mail based solution, but with such a simple concept I don't want to be tied to e-mail. I want it to be web based, I want it to be email based, command line, and I want to use hubot in campfire.

At the end of the day this gets rid of the daily standup, which I personally find tedious. I typically get little to no value from them, and feel they are more of a management tool. This sort of thing gets me out of meetings, which I'm all for.


Thanks for your great feedback! Some of the major problems we were facing with standup meetings were, that in "the real world" team member come late, work remotely etc... So the email-based solution always works for everyone (who has an email address...) without interrupting them from what they're currently working on.


Is there a way to tweak the frequency of the digest ? We're currently working on a weekly report basis with my team, and I'd definitely try the solution if we can keep it weekly


yes! You'll be able to individually setup when the digest (and reminder emails) will get send out. This could be daily, weekly, monthly or just on choosen days like every Tuesday etc...


Sounds like something that should be an open-source self-hostable mail bot :). Does anyone know any such project?


Agree. And its been done before too. https://idonethis.com/


almost everything's been done before :)


true and don't take my comment as discouraging. More like trying to find the difference.

I encourage people to reinvent the wheel but only if they can do better or think they can atleast.

No point if your aim is to build the exact same thing at same price point and is a copy.

Well if you market it better, it will not be a copy in my book.

I concur with the idea, it is a good open source project.


That's a replacement for the agile standup meeting every morning. I prefer to talk to my team in person.


Good point. But, that's not the goal. It's rather an extension to the physical meeting if you're product team... But marketing, hr etc. teams shall use it as well for keeping their teams/departments up-to-date... and those guys never heard about "SCRUM", "agile" and "Standup Meetings" :)


IC, that makes sense. Keep explaining on the website.


Nice and exactly latched on to the users who hesitate to use scrum/agile process. Good work.


thx :)


I'd like to know the pricing. Did I miss it on the site?


Thanks for your feedback! The pricing is not finally set up, but won't be over $4.5 per user per month. Would you like to see different plans fitting different team sizes or rather manually choose the number of users you need for your company?


Before answering that question... how much would you pay per team member per month?


I understand costs and competition prices, but honestly a free version for 2-3 people wouldn't be bad.

Similarly as saying that in a bigger team of 10 ppl one could implement it in house, in 2-3 there's no actual need (and setting up a reminder is trivial).

I'm also thinking to people that aren't working full-time (for whom a 3-day/weekly report would also be a nice feature).


As a small team (1 - 10), I would be willing to pay in the neighborhood of $5/user/month. Once we get up to $50/month, I'd like to see volume discounts.

I can't imagine I'd ever pay more than a $100/month for a team of any size, because at that price, I should probably just have an in-house dev develop a similar system.


not a bad idea! "keep it simple, stupid"


yes, thanks :)




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