Impact of Gaming Content

INSIGHTS

• Hive Standup Bot allows you to accurately track how each member of your team works over the long term, helping them to optimize their overall effectiveness.
• Standuply Standup Meeting Bot allows you to pick a schedule to run daily meetings with the team that can be tied to any time zone or to each individual’s local time.
• Standup Bot by So Fetch organizes all responses and generates a daily report with hyperlinks to project management tasks.

OVERVIEW

We were able to identify five standup bots meeting the specified criteria.
They are Hive Standup Bot, Standup Meeting Bot, Standup Bot by So Fetch, Steuhauf.io and Standup Alice. The following list includes bot details and any available pricing data.

METHODOLOGY

Using Slack’s own app directory, we identified the following list of standup bots. We then used each website to determine if each bot provided pricing and the specific asynchronous services requested. In the process, we discovered an asynchronous standup bot Tatsu, for which we were unable to fully determine if all specified features were included. The app has not been included in the list, but its website remains in the list of sources for your information.

LIST OF STANDUP BOTS

 Hive Standup Bot Overview: Hive Standup Bot allows you to accurately track how each member of your team works over the long term, helping them to optimize their overall effectiveness. Hive’s project managers guide you through the process of understanding what features you need in order to build your standup bot. Hive can compile bots for small as well as large tasks. Pricing: available on consultation Standuply Standup Meeting Bot Overview: Standuply’s bot allows you to pick a schedule to run daily meetings with the team. These can be tied to any time zone or to each individual’s local time. Users select participants and customize questions. The bot also features reminders and thread support. Once team members have provided answers, these are collected by the bot and prepared as project status reports for you and your team. Results can be delivered to a Slack channel, via DM, email, or Webhook. Pricing: Prices range from $5/month for 3 respondents to a maximum of $100/month for sixty respondents. They do offer a free version, but it is only for 3 active respondents and does not allow for customization according to time zone. So Fetch's Standup Bot Overview: So Fetch's Standup Bot features the abilities needed to run fully asynchronous, multiple standups for multiple teams operating independently. Standups can be scheduled in multiple channels to automatically start every day at individually specified times. The bot organizes all responses and generates a daily report with hyperlinks to project management tasks. It can be implemented for small and large teams, though the bot for larger teams allows for standup question customization and unlimited standup channels. Pricing: Standup Bot Small $49/month; Standup Bot Large $129/month (both include 14-day free trial) Stehauf.io Overview: Stehauf.io allows the user to configure the questions asked, along with the time and days the said questions are to be asked. In the interest of full transparency, the results are published to a channel. Pricing: Free (currently in Beta) Standup Alice Overview: Standup Alice supports standups for multiple teams in multiple time zones. Questions can be customized and sent at specific times on multiple channels. Summaries can be delivered at specified times in multiple channels and/or emails. Pricing: $0.99/active user/per month; free for small teams of 4 or less (currently in Beta).

CONCLUSION

We were able to identify standup bots for small teams and large teams, as well as standup bots that could be customized to meet the client’s project. Each one is integrated with Slack, provides asynchronous standups, and allows the user to set the time the questions are asked and when they are asked.