Geekbot Features

Geekbot is simple, intuitive and useful. We were really struggling to work as a remote team, we tested multiple similar tools, but Geekbot was the single one which worked as expected and it was that intuitive. Now, we're syncing much better and it is so simple to keep track what everyone does. It is very easy to setup, and is very customizable. The support team is very responsive too.

We're really happy with Geekbot and we don't have any problems with it. It is hard to have cons when it is that simple and customizable.

Appreciated your kind feedback Cezar :) Hope you still using Geekbot within your team and that everybody is happy!

* Reminds me to give my standup report, without overdoing it * Together with Harvest, allows me to piece together a narrative of what I actually do * Zero-friction self-management tool

* I used to say "a pain to edit later," but they fixed that: if you edit what you've entered in the geekbot channel, your corrections immediately show up in the group channel. Nice.

Highly appreciated your exact use case here Tom :) Thanks for your kind words and trust you are showing at Geekbot, hope that we will continue to feel your needs. Kudos!

Really easy to setup, only moments to get going. Adjusting the reports and adding/removing participants is a breeze through the nicely designed web UI. Also, this bot is great for suitable for check-ins of at any interval about any topic also. The flexibility around where the answers go in slack is nice, all permissions are handled through slack for this viability of the report answers.

Finding really difficult to fault this software. The only thing I would mention is that to the best of my knowledge a thread cant be created per answered question of the report in slack, only for all questions as a whole. There have been times where I have a few comments of a users report and it would be nice to categorise them per answer rather than per report.

Appreciated both the pros and the cons you mentioned here Martin :) Thanks for taking the time to write a review, it's always nice to hear how we can further improve!

It is easy to use. You just set it up and that's it, it is completely integrated with Slack, so you don't need to go to the dashboard to manage anything, you can handle a lot of stuff by just communicating with the bot. It is really easy to use and allows keeping everyone up to date.

It failed once or twice throughout our whole usage which caused some questions to be delivered late, but those were only small glitches. Overall, it is a pretty stable product.

It is always nice to hear a real customer story, Batikan :) Thanks so much for sharing!

- Remote asynchronous stand-up - The micro reports in Slack every day - The ping every morning to avoid forgetting - The dashboard to see the answers, the mood, globally or on a specific period

The log-in by Slack for each log-in to the tool. I would love something that remember me when I log-in?

Thanks for taking the time to write a review Lesti :) If you ever find a little bit more time, please reach out to our customer support Team in order to explain us further your feature request here, thanks

- Its quite simple and easy to use standup bot for startups - It saves lot of time in meetings

- There is no option to snooze the notifications when Im out of office, or when I dont want to participate in the post standup notification - The ping would sometime take some time to load. Its not always accurate on time.

Appreciated both the pros and most importantly the cons you mentioned here. We have added the ability to snooze your notifications and we are working to eliminate any other boundaries we have in matters of time :)

Options of settings and reporting of statuses. Option to plan status for employees as is needed.

There wasn't any problem with software, it's reliable.

Many thanks for your review on Geekbot, David :)

The interface is incredibly easy to use and the onboarding/setup was super clean. I have used other players in the space like Standuply and felt somewhat overwhelmed with functionality. Geekbot has a far better UI/UX and reporting process. We have found our home with Geekbot.

That there is no free tier. We are a small team and many of their competitors have a free tier for small teams. It has gotta be tough competing with that, but they are definitely taking a step in the right direction with their simplicity and superior UX. I do wish that you could default the manual "report" check-in functionality as we have a daily check-in and a bi-weekly retrospective. 99.9% of the time you are going to do the daily check-in manually by typing "report", but it has you select which of the 2 reports you want to report on.

Appreciated the time spent and your kind words here Alex :) Hope that we will continue to fill the high standards you set for us!

Geekbot's ability to facilitate asynchronous standup updates is a game-changer for our fully remote organization. With team members spread across different time zones and regions, Geekbot empowered us to conduct standups without wasting each other's time waiting for responses. It significantly improved communication across the entire organization, allowing everyone to stay informed and aligned.

While Geekbot is incredibly efficient, the initial setup and configuration can be a bit time-consuming. It took some time for our team to get accustomed to the interface and optimize it for our specific needs. Access to geekbot dashboard should be readily available through the slack chat interface.

We use Geekbot for our agile team's standup reports, with features like flexible scheduling for individual or channel requests, accommodating different time zones, delivering reports to the client channel for visibility, providing comment notifications, and its easy setup and customization options, allowing us to effortlessly streamline our standups and enhance collaboration. I am also a fan of telling it I'm on vacation and it knows when to restart itself.

Sometimes when I have a bot running for too many teams / channels I do miss an update. It tries to be smart enough that it doesn't have me reporting on more than one thing at a time (a conflict I have created as an admin) and it pauses one when the next one starts. So, I can forget to go back to the paused one.

- Ability to edit private DMs and silent publishing to the channel - Ease of configuration, templating, onboarding - Love the engagement survey/reminder to nudge - Pleasant/engaging customer support - Quick reply status for repeating the same status from the previous day

- Doesn't always start on time - Suffered from extensive delays a few times (20-30 minutes between questions) - Unable to manage other standups (I purchased for several teams but I'm unable to see/configure their settings) - Response times from customer support are a bit slow even via intercom (expect 1-2 business days, sometimes longer) - Timeline performance (dashboard view) for summarization sometimes lags

Thanks for taking the time to make us better :) Although, I do believe that we improved in all of the aspects you mentioned in cons, we would definitely take these into careful consideration and try to improve more :)

I have been using Geekbot for years, and it is the best solution in its class for conducting daily standups for teams. With the workflow builder, you can create a custom solution that streamlines your daily routine, making life easier for both managers and participants. I particularly appreciate the quality and speed of their customer support service, which is consistently excellent

Not really a clear FAQ for common questions, so you have to contact support more time

Le plus apprécié dans ce logiciel est la facilité de son intégration dans Slack, ainsi la possibilité de le configurer facilement. Aussi, on peut modifier les questions afin de répondre à nos besoins.

Le moins apprécié dans ce logiciel est le fait qu'on peut pas ajouter une question sans la créer ou la générer dans le bot.

At Trackener, we are a small startup (5 team members) and we are following the agile methodology. Standups are important for us to know on a daily basis who's doing what, and make sure our team is always focusing on what matters the most. We had trouble finding an hour to schedule those standups since our CEO is always on the move, one of our team members is working part time mostly on evenings,...

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There are a lot of features that we do not need though (like the dashboard, tracking, etc).

Thanks Jeremie for sharing your view and describing on how Geekbot can help a small team (as us) to communicate and stay on track :)

This is an asynchronous way to run your team's huddle or standup. This is best suited for small teams or smaller companies with no more than 5-6 people in a team. This helps you save time and get to uncover very quickly where you team is blocked on and what they have been up to.

As mentioned above, it is okay for teams no more than 6 people. If more, it becomes quite cluttered and overwhelming to handle so many updates at once. This application is best for asynchronous updates and not task or project management. One can get only a daily view but not a weekly or monthly view for medium to large-sized projects. To get a bigger picture view for a Manager, this application should be best used with a ticketing software like Asana, Jira or Linear.

What we really liked about Geekbot is that it is simple and easy to set up and use. Geekbot gives us a snapshot of what the whole team is working on each day. This helps managers keep track of deliverables, reduces the formation of silos in the team as well as fosters an environment of support and learning as the app enable team members to flag obstacles earlier and receive the help they need. In terms of task management, the app has helped managers track deliverables across the team. It has also helped increase ownership, consciousness and accountability among individual team members for planning and executing their daily tasks, especially as the team is now fully remote.

Customisable templates is an area where Geekbot could improve - they just don't have as many templates as their competitors do. I would like to see more templates around process like employee onboarding, which Standuply offers.

Thanks for mentioning both the pros and the cons of Geekbot, George. We are constantly want to increase and add new templates, so hopefully you will get to see more soon :)

We are a distributed small team that has members from 3 different countries, and we manage our daily standups + retrospectives through Geekbot. Geekbot allowed us to implement daily standup culture within our team without leaving Slack. So far it has helped everyone to get up-to-speed with how to approach the project management culture we are trying to implement and it allowed everyone to see the progress being made, documented and openly appreciated.

It's so simple, also there are some preset meetings for daily standup or retrospective, etc. They're really helpful to us.

When you read positive feedback in both pros and cons, it feels awesome :) Thanks for sharing this!

Easy to configure our group, and we loved a few options: 1) Managing different timezones 2) Customizing the messaging for the standup to fit our culture

Nothing really. We tried several Slack standup integrations and this was the only one our team liked and didn't find annoying. :)

Thanks for your kind words,Porter! Glad Geekbot is helping your team sync and maintain your company's culture. :)

What I liked most about Geekbot is its intuitive interface and seamless integration with our communication platforms. It has streamlined our daily standups, making them more efficient and ensuring everyone is on the same page. The automated reminders and easy-to-follow prompts have significantly improved our team's consistency and accountability.

Nothing for now - Just setting up can be little bit time taking initially - Managing standups in private channels for Slack etc.

I can schedule different stand up workflows per day and receive analytics.

Hard to access from Slack, because I have to go to the Geekbot website to configure it.

Geekbot is a powerful standup management tool that helps teams stay organized and on track. I have been using Geekbot for the past six months and have been extremely impressed with its features and functionality.

I found most helpful is the ability to add tasks. The tool also allows for easy communication and collaboration within the team, also has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate and find the information I need.

Task management. it's very easy to set up. We use the standups for our daily task managing.

I'd like to set different time/question choices in the same standup for different team members if possible.

Thanks for the feedback Vivian, though, what you asked for in Cons is totally doable and if you don't know how to set it, feel free to reach to us :)

Customizable - able to set up days and times that meet the projects demands. Engaging - private fun messages to motivate use. Increases Accountability and Transparency - having a bot send out messages helps separate Scrum Master from becoming Scrum Overlord. Efficient and concise - avoids the quick stand-up meetings that turn into long complex code reviews or water cool chats about the weekend.

No complaints. Works as advertised and the webhooks/API allow for scraping data to where we want to keep our records.

Much appreciated your kind words :) Hope you still using Geekbot for your everyday communication!

We were looking for a tool for our team to help us keep each other updated without the need for a meeting. We value the asynchronous way of working very much. In my role at another company, I have already come across Geekbot as a kind of recognition bot. So we gave it a try here, too, and were quickly thrilled. The configuration, set-up and customisation process was super easy and straightforward. Through a weekly message in Slack, we can now asynchronously recognise other team members, celebrate community wins and share a general status update. Since we have a free Slack plan, it's even nicer to have the Geekbot dashboard with all the historical data.

If I could wish just one thing, it would be some kind of input validation or more input options. For example, to define number intervals and ease quantitative mood checks (e.g. 1-10 scale, 1-5 stars,..) However, since this is indirectly possible in other ways, there is no point penalty for this 😉

Highly appreciated the time you took to drop your thoughts on Geekbot, Felix :) We plan to improve in many aspects and keep being a service that helps team communication!