Show HN: Dayboard – Daily task management for teams

Hi HN, I&#x27;m John, the guy behind this.<p>I started this while looking for a way to help remote teams run stand up meetings but it turns out what stand ups offered wasn&#x27;t easy to capture in an app.<p>Instead, it turns out it was much better to build something that helps people get a day-to-day view of their company and help individuals fight their distraction, be accountable and stay productive -- which is essentially what stand ups aims to do (among other things). To do this, I built a (well received) Chrome extension that helps you stay focused on your priority tasks - which automatically syncs your progress with your team: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dayboard-new-tab-page/kimodcegbhclamjcbifgfaldeengbgij" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;dayboard-new-tab-p...</a><p>For those interested in the backstory, you can learn more about this from our feature on Lifehacker (<a href="http://lifehacker.com/dayboard-uses-chromes-new-tab-page-to-keep-you-focused-1589532616" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lifehacker.com&#x2F;dayboard-uses-chromes-new-tab-page-to-...</a>) and ProductHunt (<a href="http://www.producthunt.com/posts/dayboard" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dayboard</a>)<p>I&#x27;ll be continuing development on this so expect to see new features and improvements.<p>Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Also happy to answer any questions!

I liked this idea a lot, especially the angle that it is made for groups. It looks great too, keep up the good work. A few thoughts:<p>- Would it be useful to integrate this with existing issue-trackers? Would it help if all members of a group can add tasks in a common pool and then pick tasks out of that pool (like an issue-tracker?)<p>- Is there a danger of people being afraid to add tasks that are new ideas because everyone would see a half-finished idea? Also, does announcing what you plan to do make it harder to change your mind if you realize what really needs to be done is different than what you announced would get done?

This is really nice! Going to give it a shot with my tiny (but 1&#x2F;3-remote) team this week.<p>A few tiny styling issues: the 3D effect modals have sometimes results in the text being blurred on Chrome OSX (see <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qna5gj9cm6zbovm/Screenshot%202014-08-11%2013.57.18.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;qna5gj9cm6zbovm&#x2F;Screenshot%202014-...</a>), and the input field background is a bit <i>too</i> low contrast (I occasionally was confused where to click in a form).

I really like these kind of task driven dashboards. But I would never ever use an external service to host it. What happens in my team stays in my team.<p>I&#x27;ve tried to find software like this that can be self hosted, but it is either not available or extremely expensive as the self hosted version is targeted at big companies with lots of users.<p>Is it just me being old fashioned, or are there more potential buyers of self hosted software being ignored as a potential customer?

I took a look, it is great. Here are my 2 cents. I do have one similar task management appl built totally from groud up. It grew out of Spread sheet to have a Web GUI. It does the following. You may consider (if not so far).<p>* Email tasks that are pending at the end of the day. * Change priorities * You can request update, or add items to other&#x27;s list of TO-DO ( a TODO is a task with same task start and end date). * Pull up the tasks in a calendar. * Search tasks.

Hi John!<p>I absolutely love this! I&#x27;ve just created an account and have sent an invite to my co-founder &amp; designer to sign up!<p>Hopefully we&#x27;ll be using this for our day-to-day tasks - it seems like a much nicer solution to finding out what we&#x27;re working on than checking in with each other throughout the day on Skype...<p>Keep rocking it!

I love it. I played around with starting something just like it a few months ago.<p>Thanks, I&#x27;ll sign up

Nice app. Which stack are you using for backend&#x2F;frontend?