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Show HN: Friday – Slack complement for distributed teams

3 pointsby lukethomasabout 5 years ago
Hi HN!<p>I&#x27;m Luke, the founder of Friday (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.friday.app). We make it easy for distributed teams to stay connected by making it easy to share what you&#x27;re working on (daily standups, weekly updates, retrospectives, and any other routine communication).<p>I&#x27;ve worked remotely for the past six years for a few different companies. There were times when I felt disconnected and unaware of what was going on at work. The best places I worked for understood that there was a need to create predictable communication &quot;habits&quot; so information flows to the right people on a regular basis. In a way, they created a communication architecture of sorts, like you might architect a codebase.<p>As I dug into the problem, I noticed that leading distributed companies we creating their own &quot;Slack complement&quot; to try to help people understand what was going on at work from a high-level. Examples:<p>Automattic created their own tool called P2. Zapier developed their own internal tool called Async. Stripe hand-rolled their own internal tool called &quot;Home&quot;.<p>There was a need to abstract the work out workplace chat and project management tools. So we built Friday!<p>With Friday, you can architect asynchronous communication habits (we call them workflows) that you&#x27;d like to run. You can configure the frequency, questions, reminders, notifications, and more. This helps create predictable communication compared to other tools on the market.<p>My favorite part about Friday is how connected I feel at work with my team, without the need to have constant meetings. We have one regularly scheduled meeting a week, which frees me up to do deep work.<p>I also wrote about what it was like to bootstrap on nights&#x2F;weekends to $10k&#x2F;mo, if anyone is interested in reading the inside story:<p>- https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lukethomas.com&#x2F;bootstrapping-10k-month-day-job&#x2F;<p>Any&#x2F;all feedback is much appreciated!

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