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AhoyTeam — Manage your team's daily tasks and operations in Slack
AhoyTeam empowers distributed teams to save valuable time and be more efficient with a new way of tackling workflows.
Creating automated workflows to assign, notify and remind to-do's exactly when it matters directly within Slack.
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@andreasklinger thanks for hunting, much appreciated.
Hey hunters and makers,
My name is Tomas, founder at AhoyTeam. About a year ago, we released an ebook on building company culture for the new Slack generation here on Product Hunt. I was floored by the responses we received. If it had been not for that PH launch and the overwhelming support from this community, we probably wouldn’t be where we are today…
It has been a tough 12 months to go from an idea to a product, build a team, prototyping while taking on personal debt, and spending months telling investors that remote is here to stay and we are building a product to shape the future of how teams will be managed.
About 3 months ago, we successfully raised our €500k pre-seed and partnered with our investor Lighthouse Ventures to deliver on the promise we gave.
And today, the whole Ahoy “team” is beyond excited to finally introduce AhoyTeam as a platform for managers in remote companies to automate their routine daily/weekly processes directly in Slack and free up time for more important business-oriented work.
- Automate repetitive workflows
- Notification across tools & events
- and streamlined Employee requests
All of this is done directly in Slack and Teams (coming soon). We want to be the backbone of your routine processes, without you needing to toggle back and forth between different productivity tools.
2020 has been a tough year for all of us personally and to add to that an even more difficult time if we are running businesses. Companies were forced to switch to remote overnight with little preparation. That’s exactly why we would like to help and get all our users up and running in their new remote setup.
Thank you again for this community. We wouldn't be here without you guys.
Tomas,
Founder, AhoyTeam
Remote onboarding is an interesting problem to tackle. But beyond just new employee onboarding, I would love to see a tool that can handle onboardings for users in Slack communities, specific apps like "onboarding best practices for Zoom", ...etc.
Is that something you guys think about and potentially can expand to?
@faborio These are pretty interesting usecases, and how we're trying to build AhoyTeam is that the platform is flexible enough to adjust to different processes. And it will be just a matter of workflow templates we can build for our customers for usecases you mentioned.
Tbh I haven't thought about onboarding like this yet, but building simple automated onboarding for each team member in a company on how to use Zoom, Bonusly, Troops, etc...sounds like a win win for both our customers and us getting connected with other productivity tools.
We're for sure gonna dig into this deeper and launch some free templates for it.
@hellodusko If you don't mind asking, how is this different from automation tools like Zapier or Automate.io?
Either way, looking forward to trying it out!
@lubos_buracinsky simply said I would think about AhoyTeam as: Asana meets Zapier.
Workflow automation that is not just about connecting all your tools with ifttt rules on each action. Going beyond that, even when we actually trigger Ahoy workflows to Slack similar as Zapier with an event happening in one of the integrated apps -> we then can deliver a complex Slack based workflow that can be send to channels, users and run accordingly to actions users do in Slack on these tasks.
We are using AhoyTeam to automate many code related processes on our distributed engineering team at Mapistry. It is really a great product and really well designed. Congrats on the public launch @hellodusko and team - I can't wait to see where you all go from here.
@thomasmclaughlin Thanks man. You folks at Mapistry have been an amazing early adopters, and I hope we'll be able to help out with even more usecases in the future.
I know remote is a hot topic now, and targeting remote companies is a smart move. But is this usable really just for remote companies, aren't you guys closing yourself a bigger market in front of you with this positioning?
@tomasmitana thanks for the comment, a valid concern that in a similar way we've been asked by almost every investor we talked to for the past 6 months.
We believe that what being "remote company" means now will be sometimes completely different in few months, years (already seeing change with big companies like FB, TW, Stripe, Shopify,...)
And identifying as remote/distributed will also be companies that have offices in different cities or contries and just use Slack and Teams as their main source of truth of communication a daily operations.
So, I'm hoping this doesn't close any doors :)
Great concept! I think it brings a lot of value however slack has made workflows native (I actually discovered it today), anything in particular that is extra in your offering vs Slacks native workflows?
@veebuv great catch, yes Slack has it's native workflows, and first when I found it I've got a pretty good headache :)). But those are very simple and mostly focused on just one-message actions when specific events happen like new users coming to Slack, channels created, ...
We're trying to go way beyond that, and as mentioned in comment above if you can think about us as a Zapier meets Asana. It takes Slack workflows to a different level, where they are connected both ways with other tools from your stack, and can trigger and act more intuitive based on the actions takes during those workflows.
We don't promote it much yet, but we've also integrated sending emails as part of the Slack workflows. And MS Teams coming soon :)
@hellodusko and @andreasklinger Great looking product. Finally, something that helps teams scale. I have had so many conversations with first-time managers who underestimate how much time is lost solving people and project management problems. Teams shouldn't need to re-invent this wheel. I look forward to signing up!
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