About Standuply

General information about Standuply. Learn more about product's concept and how it works.

• What is Standuply?

  Standuply is a Slack bot that runs stand-up meetings in text format in Slack. It helps distributed teams to organize and run stand-ups no matter of the distance and provides co-located teams with an o...

• How does Standuply work?

  In general you set up questions and choose people to answer them. Then Standuply interviews your team members in Slack, collects their answers and provides you with an ability to see the history of st...

• What issue does Standuply resolve?

  Standuply resolves the issue of keeping track of what everyone is or not getting done. It does this automatically by gathering data from your team and then Standuply sends reports to via DM, to a publ...

• What is the main profit a team gets from using Standuply?

  Generally speaking, the main value of using Standuply is time saving. When you save your time you save your money. According to our calculations, a team of 8 people saves up to 40 man days in a year i...

• What are the main Standuply’s features?

  So, the current version of Standuply supports the following features. Custom reports - create reports with your own questions. Unlimited reports - you can create an unlimited number of reports for any...

• What are the typical use cases?

  Standuply is aimed to make your routine communications more efficient. So, there are several key use cases:  Stand-up meetings.   Stand-up agenda (preparation for a stand-up). People often come to the...

• Do you seriously want to replace live communications with a bot?

  No, because text messages can never fully replace live communication in any team, even if it’s distributed. But on the other hand, partly - yes, because we would like to make routine communications co...

• Does Standuply integrate with any third party services?

  Yes, for now Standuply allows you to get data/charts from Google Analytics and metrics from databases like MySQL or MongoDB. These integrations are organized as data requests. A data request captures ...

• Does Standuply work only on Slack?

  Yes, it works only on Slack for now. But we consider integrating it with some other messaging platforms, such as HipChat, Microsoft Teams, etc. ...

• What is the target audience of Standuply?

  In general, we target people that deal with product/project management, including scrum masters. On the level of teams we focus on distributed teams because in this case the need of being on the same ...