jeffreyjsatx (u/jeffreyjsatx)

jeffreyjsatx commented on Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity gitinsights.io/... · Posted by u/jeffreyjsatx

maddynator · 2 years ago

Hi Jeffreyjsatx,

I tried GitInsight and wanted to share my feedback. Recorded a 5 min feedback video.

https://www.loom.com/share/0fb4b5ec2f2744ed9f1239601f43f185?...

I hope you find it useful and if you don't please disregard the video.

Congrats on launch and happy building!!

jeffreyjsatx · 2 years ago

I really appreciate you taking the time to do this! I would love to add trend data to the email. If you are willing, can you please contact me via email (available on the website) or send me a message (via the feedback in app) so that i can get your thoughts on how to implement?

jeffreyjsatx commented on Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity gitinsights.io/... · Posted by u/jeffreyjsatx

jeffreyjsatx · 2 years ago

OP here - really appreciate all of the feedback, whether it be negative or positive!

To answer the question on use case: as an eng leader overseeing a large team or multiple teams, I would use this purely as an internal pulse-check, and that's it. Bringing these datapoints into a single place can help determine places to dig in, such as:

Are we auto-shipping PRs without diligent review/code comments?. Are senior engineers putting enough time/effort into PR review? Are there a subset of engineers carrying the team in terms of PR feedback? Does a junior engineer's progress align with status updates Are we shipping PRs in reasonable sizes? We just finished planning and are moving into build cycle, are product requirements allowing devs to start building as expected?

None of this email content is meant to be source-of-truth, but instead a signal/pulse-check.

I do agree with a lot of the feedback on worry about how this data is used — e.g. commit count != productivity. That said, a good manager is not going to mis-use this data and your poor manager is already a poor manager without it.

jeffreyjsatx commented on Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity gitinsights.io/... · Posted by u/jeffreyjsatx

iamjfu · 2 years ago

I'm sorry for all the negative comments you're receiving in this post. I'm sure you worked really hard on this and I know it sucks when you share something like this and all people say is negative things.

My team and I have actually been looking for something like this. Not to judge engineers productivity but to understand workload imbalances. For example, say we notice 2-3 people are doing all the PR reviews (something I think we could detect with this). Maybe the other engineers need training on PRs or we need to set expectations that everyone reviews PRs or maybe our PR load balancer isn't set up correctly.

So, good work and good luck. I'll definitely be showing this to my team. Thanks for sharing this with everyone!

jeffreyjsatx · 2 years ago

Thanks a ton! If you have any feedback/needs that the app doesn't currently account for, please email me of send the feedback from directly within the app!

jeffreyjsatx commented on Ask HN: Feedback on my Saas relationship management tool · Posted by u/tixocloud

jeffreyjsatx · 8 years ago

The homepage looks great! Nice start. One note - the 'Get Started' button in the nav takes me to the bottom of the page, but the only signup button on the page is at the top of the page.

jeffreyjsatx commented on Ask HN: Feedback on my Saas relationship management tool · Posted by u/tixocloud

AznHisoka · 8 years ago

It sounds like something very few people would actually use. Why? Because everyone is busy and preoccupied with their own jobs. Sales VPs are busy trying to chase leads. Executives are busy managing their own product/employees, etc. Networking is one of those things people say they want to do more of, but in reality nobody finds the time to do so.

jeffreyjsatx · 8 years ago

What I hear you saying is that people see the value in maintaining business/professional relationships but don't have the time to so do. Maybe people would use this tool if it could help decrease time spent maintaining a network?

jeffreyjsatx commented on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? · Posted by u/mdoliwa

Tarlen · 9 years ago

I built https://resend.io/ over the past 9 months. Launched paid version a couple of weeks ago and it's looking good so far

jeffreyjsatx · 9 years ago

Really nice design!