It would be useful if the web-site had a <i>real</i> case-study where they show all the features in action. Right now it looks like vaporware -- like one of those sites people put up to see if there is interest in an idea.<p>And perhaps stuff like this should have on-site capability for enterprises that don't use github, gitlab and such?
To avoid trademark fun, you may want to rebrand at some point.<p>A tech selection from Googling 'haystack'<p><a href="https://www.haystack.tv/" rel="nofollow">https://www.haystack.tv/</a><p><a href="https://project-haystack.org/" rel="nofollow">https://project-haystack.org/</a><p><a href="https://thehaystackapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thehaystackapp.com/</a><p><a href="http://haystackdata.com/" rel="nofollow">http://haystackdata.com/</a>
I find this website to be a fairly amusing example of how marketing co-opts real, generally easily expressible ideas to be an amalgamation of highly targeted jargon and pointed funnels for personal information collection.<p>Generally any well intentioned person who worked on an idea like this would be delighted to share what their product does specifically and clearly - unashamed screenshots of interesting visualizations (maybe half cooked), telling descriptions of specific numbers being crunched and their utility as predictive indicators of project success, verified with statistical certainty.<p>Sadly this kind of naive, honest approach is very regularly usurped by the machiavellian machinery of the professional art of convincing others to buy things, which is narrative focused and story driven with very little concrete substance.<p>Not blaming the author here, I understand the motivations at work and sympathize with them, but still sometimes find myself dumbfounded by the results.
Seems this is actually vaporware. No screenshots, no actual demo/application and signing up with emails leaves a "you'll receive an email soon" but no email arrives. Ebook requires email to download, and ebook ends up saying same stuff as on website already.
Haystack aggregates activity in git to give engineering managers more visibility into how their team's work. We came up with the idea when we realized how difficult it is to answer a simple question: 'Is the team doing better than we were 6 months ago?'. We realized how hard it is to not only visualize trends on their team but get actionable insights into the biggest areas to improve. Whether it's spending too much time in code review, taking on too much concurrent work, or even getting bogged down with technical debt; we wanted a tool that can not only help to spot issues but also alert us so we can take action. Introducing Haystack.
This isn't so much "show Hacker News" as "tease Hacker News".<p>Your web site shows me diddly squat. Do you actually _have_ a product? Where's the video walkthrough, or at the very least, some screen shots?<p>If your product were genuinely useful / insightful (which is very hard to do in this space) then we might buy it. For 400 seats. But it looks like vapourware to me right now. Come back when you actually have something to show the community.
Would love if the homepage showed actual screenshots of this product. It sounds interesting, but i'd like a sample of what is to come before signing up.
Does the development team get the stats from this? I could see it empowering self organising teams.<p>If not it seems like a horrible product for engineers.