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Re:Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims by WorldMaker on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:52AM (#12701582)
It's possible you solved a problem only your company has. Did you try to evaluate other options in this space and see what you have that is new/different that other options? (If you have distinctions, are you marketing them well enough?)

Maybe your product does too little? If people are looking for a Standup Replacement/Aid there are more dedicated Slack bots. First example in bing: https://standupbot.com/

I realize that in my case at least, what I might use your app for can already/is already handled by Skype for Business. SfB has a "What's happening today?" status message that is easy to fill out as things change. It also has things like OOO and WFH (and busy and available) status information at a glance and pulled automatically from my/my coworkers Outlook calendars... Can you offer some reason to add another application to that equation?

Similarly, .plan is a million year old way of handling some of this; I can't quite see from your marketing how much of an advantage you offer over even a traditional .plan file (other than the fact that no one hardly uses .plan these days).

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Re:Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims by whatdoido on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:18PM (#12701822)
Great points -- and its definitely possible we pigeonholed the product.

Here are some of our competitive advantages that we're trying to get across (we just updated the homepage cards in an attempt to convey some of this):

- Notifications

- Organization by team and / or project

- Search

- Kudos

- Persist the data, can view the past

- Can mark aims as an accomplishment and build a timeline of your career viewable by you, your colleagues, and managers

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Re:Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims by judahmeek on Friday October 14, 2016 @11:11AM (#12708577)
I've always thought that a performance evaluation system that focused on recognizing strong performance and identifying unrealistic expectations would have real potential. Considering the features of TakeAim, maybe that would be a possible pivot?
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