Other than the name change, what changed from the Flock era?

Hey Product Hunt! I'm really excited to show you Jell. We launched the original version of the product about a year ago under the name "Flock", but relaunching today on Product Hunt with a new name and a ton of new functionality. WHAT Jell is an easy way for you to share your plans and progress with your team. It can be a replacement for a daily standup or scrum meeting, or a more comprehensive reporting tool and way to help your company track long-term goals. In addition to the web app, we have apps for iOS and Android, or you can post to Jell completely from Slack. WHY I've long worked on teams where it seemed like we just kept getting out of sync, and the solution clearly wasn't adding more meetings to the calendar or sending more emails (or Slack messages). The first iteration of Jell was a quick way to bring focus to our daily standups, and quickly turned out to be a great way to develop a habit of structured communication to make teams more effective. You can read more of my thoughts about this here: https://jell.com/blog/why-jell/ WHO Jell started as an internal tool at Formstack as a way to help us communicate effectively as a fast-growing remote company. Since then we've spun Jell out into a separate company, and are a team of 3 engineers and designers working on it full-time. I'm eager to hear your thoughts and questions, and hope a few of you find Jell useful to your team. Thanks!

I love this. We've been doing something similar using a slack channel but I feel like we're outgrowing it. I'll have to give this a try!

Our team at Ebates has been using Jell for some time now and it's been solid at keeping our team with a few remote workers in sync. When we couldn't make Skype/synchronous standups work due to time differences we tried daily emails, on top of plenty of JIRA updates but that still wouldn't cut it. Right now Jell reminders and digests keep the team on the same page and if someone misses an update a little bit of shaming in our hipchat channel goes a long way :) Important part is starting to leave a bit of feedback and comments on other peoples items, that gets folks a bit more invested in posting updates. Nice work @ade New domain is sweet!

So excited to share this with my teams!!!!

We've been using Jell at Workfrom and love the integration with Slack! It's so slick - post your update in Jell and boom! everyone sees it in Slack. The daily summaries are great, too, especially when I'm traveling or am otherwise "offline" and not hanging out in the chats.

As a Sales Director, I think it will be a great solution to the not so great internal Salesforce tools. Will give it a go!

Is it possible to answer all of these questions within Slack?

This may very well meet my need of a fully integrated task management system within Slack, on top of a great goal-tracking app! Giving this a try starting this week.

We do very religious standups everyday and we are a team of 100 people. One problem this product solves is -- the sticky-note mess. We loose things, replace things here and there. Not sure you mention that pain in your content. Nevertheless, your product addresses the very exact problem. I am going to use the free plan and see how it is better than using JIRA's Agile Board (as some folks are already advocating it)

So I've just started using Jell last week, and attempting to onboard my team to incorporate another platform into their lives to communicate with me. I love that you integrate with Slack, as that makes things a lot easier. However, my only concern thus far is the amount of emails you send out. This morning I received 5 of the same email -- must be a bug with mandrill. But in general I've unsubscribed twice. I totally understand wanting user feedback, but at what point is overkill? I'd love to provide feedback, but it generally takes at least a few days to get everyone on board with a platform like this. So far it seems intuitive and very handy for my team, I'm sure I will love it soon enough.

Oh wow, this could be a lifesaver for us -- especially with a team all over the country. I've attempting something similar via a slack channel, but it's not as organized. I've been waiting for something like this for some time. Great find.

Hi, we tried similar service and meet the folloeing problem: people 's answers to online standup questions are too brief and don't actually describe what happends on the project. So, me as a PM had to go back to people after getting their replies and ask them again "what are doing? what did you do?" Because there wasn't enough information that people submitted as text stanups. So, in fact it didn't save my time as a manager and team's time because I had to asked them twise and eventualy it started to irritate the team - "why do we need to answer to text standups if you come and ask us again. Let's just discuss our statuses"/ Do anyone meet some problem? Is there chance to avide it using such kind of services cause idea of them looks good but......

I remember this team from Future Insights Live conference a few years ago. Looks like you're heading in a good direction with Slack integrations and great design. I'm hoping to find the product to have an understanding of remote/timezone/async teams, where "yesterday" is a fluid concept and other unique problems.

Been using it at MadKudu for a month. Love that it forces you to take 5 minutes to plan your day and work on what's important. The Slack integration is killer. We still need to figure out how best to integrate it with the rest of the workflow (Asana, Github) though.