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Tomasz Korzeniowski

HAY's DX Platform - Improve your dev team’s work output, wellbeing & teamwork

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Elevate Developer Experience (DX) with every one-on-one meeting. Build a vibrant and committed engineering team by improving happiness, fostering collaboration, and optimizing productivity.

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Tomasz Korzeniowski
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Hello, Product Hunt community! 👋 I'm Tomek, the founder of HAY. From research and documentation to coding and deployment, developers often encounter many challenges that make creating software confusing, difficult, and joyless. This experience not only hampers productivity but could also jeopardize the end product. That’s why I'm thrilled to introduce HAY’s DX Platform, our solution that helps EMs and Tech Leads build high-performing engineering teams by optimizing work output, enhancing wellbeing, and fostering teamwork. I'm super excited to hear your thoughts, feedback, and questions. Let's improve DX and bring empowerment, support, and motivation back to building software.
Aman Wen
I'm all for ideas that boost team morale and productivity, which is why I'm hitting the upvote. It's like finding that secret sauce that makes work not only efficient but also more satisfying for everyone involved. how user-friendly is the platform for managers not so tech-savvy? Can they get it rolling without a hitch?
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@aman_wen Hi Aman, yes! Thank you for the support! We did quite a bit of research with engineering managers of all types. We got great feedback from them. Feel free to check it out - we welcome your feedback, too!
Marius Stankiewicz
This is such a great idea! Congrats!
Akash Kandasamy
Hey, Nice Idea
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@akk_017 Thanks Akash! Feel free to give it a go and let me know what you think!
Nataliia Tuchapets
The emphasis on one-on-one meetings as a catalyst for improving DX is noteworthy. These meetings provide a valuable opportunity for managers and developers to connect on a personal level, address concerns, provide feedback, and align goals.
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@nataliia_tuchapets1 Fully agree, Nataliia! By getting feedback directly within Slack, EMs can better prepare for one-on-ones that really matter.
Poppyn Climb
It's simple for me: always support when I see that someone focuses on developer wellbeing. Great to see this prioritized in your product!
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@mlody_g Thank you! Yes, developer wellbeing is an important topic these days. We hope we got it right, but any feedback is appreciated!
Roman Martirosyan
Platform seems like a comprehensive approach to improving developer experience and team collaboration. How does your platform measure and track changes in developer wellbeing and productivity? Additionally, are there specific features that promote teamwork and foster a positive engineering culture?
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@r_martirosyan Thanks for the support, Roman! In terms of productivity, we leverage GitHub analytics with a GitHub integration; and for wellbeing, we use a Slack plug-in to check up on morale and satisfaction. We make sure all this centers around productive, forward-focused 1:1 meetings.
Boris Markarian
Congratulations on the launch, looks really nice, I think this can help my team save a lot of time!
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@boris_moris44 Thank you! Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!
Garen Orchyan
Big congrats on the launch, Tomasz! Best of luck today!
Vítor Soares
Nice tool! Good luck and congratulations on launching! 🚀
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@vitor_pvsoares Thank you for having a look!
Oleksandr Zhabin
Congratulations on the launch! Looks like a useful tool to help make team members more happy and productive. Interested to know if the amount of code in commits is taken into account?
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@oleksandr_zhabin Thanks Oleksandr! Yes, and it also reflects in the visualization with graph size and lines of code.
Michael Shver
Seems like a great idea! We can really have great colleagues, but lose them to burnout, so it's nice to have a tool to catch the problem before it's too late. To be honest, I think it can be used in other industries too. For example, I know that people in marketing tend to overwork, managing all possible marketing channels every day 🤔 Anyway, great job and congratulations on the launch!
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@michaelshver Thanks Michael! Definitely, and making sure that wellbeing and happiness are checked is super important. In fact, it appears to play a huge role as to why devs quit OR quit their managers as they fail to address important work-life balance issues and satisfaction.
Artem Shambalov
Really interesting approach! Boosting and maintaining team’s productivity is a permanent challenge. Does your tool offer some ideas for improvement when the team’s performance is lagging behind?
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@shambalyov Thank you for showing interest! We try to look at everything in context, and when certain risk factors appear, we address them in a 1:1 meeting. Of course, addressing this might be a challenge but with honest and open feedback, EMs should have enough data at their fingertips to tackle any problem.
Trent Kennelly
When companies have the possibility of seeing this data in real time FROM THE SOURCE (aka employees) it seems crazy not to use it. Excellent work!!
Oleksandra Vasiukhnyk
HAY's DX Platform seems like a unique approach to dev team wellbeing. How does it measure improvements in team happiness?
Júlia Bagaria
Great idea! Congratulations!
Jamie Hunt
I'm always hesitant with any reporting dashboard that is surfacing metrics such as number of commits / developer. This ultimately gets extrapolated to represent individual developer productivity and it's a really poor placeholder metric for that. Engineers who take a greater responsibility in tasks such as: unblocking others, mentoring juniors, interviewing, architecting, review and even engineers who take small easily shippable tasks, or vanity commits for metrics (fixed typo) come out looking more productive in this system. Sure, I like how your tool reaches out to individuals and collects personalised feedback from individual contributors. But surfacing commits as "work output" there at the top of your page, just icks me.
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@jamie_hunt Thank you for your feedback. You made some great points. I've seen in the past many tools used but instead of empowering developers, the tools are used to oppress. We always encourage EMs to look at productivity data in context and look at the developer more holistically.
Gandharv Bakshi
Congratulations on a successful launch on PH. If it is useful for you, here is a detailed report for your landing page content here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/.... If that is cumbersome, you can also find a summary here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/.... Hope this is useful to you.
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@gandharv_bakshi I gave it a read. Thank you for taking the time to check out our product and site.
Albert
Congratulations on the launch of HAY's DX Platform, Tomek and Mareta! 🚀 Improving developer experience and enhancing teamwork are crucial aspects for a successful engineering team. How do you envision HAY's DX Platform evolving in the future to further optimize productivity and happiness within dev teams? Looking forward to seeing the impact of your innovative solution on the tech community!
Jake Page
This is such a cool product. Just out of curiosity, when you detect that a coworker is getting close to burn out, what have you found works best to help them?
Tomasz Korzeniowski
Maker
@jakepage Thanks for showing interest! Actually, we designed it hoping we wouldn't get there with certain checks and balances along the way with pulse checks and seeing productivity slumps. Our best tool is probably the 1:1, which helps to gain more wellbeing insights, and all the data that EMs gather up to that moment.