Geekbot Reviews - Page 2

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.

But what I like most about Geekbot is the level of transparency it introduces in our processes. With each member's tasks laid out, we can see how our individual efforts align with the team's overall objectives. It's not just about managing workloads anymore, it's about seeing the bigger picture and understanding how every piece fits into the puzzle.Moreover, I appreciate how Geekbot has brought a human...

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While I appreciate many of Geekbot's features, there's one aspect that could use some improvement. I wish they offered a more cost-effective package for "Up to X users." As it stands, anyone added to our Slack channel automatically becomes part of our Geekbot user count (this is the easiest setting), which can lead to unexpected increases in our monthly bill.

We use Geekbot to do a virtual daily standup on Slack instead of needing to have daily meetings. It saves us time and helps us understand what our colleagues are working on and what they need help with.

I have no complaints about Geekbot. It's very straightforward.

Our team have been using geekbot for years and it really makes our life easir. we integrated it on slack so we can share our daily to do and this help us in coordinating work between each other and schedule how the working day is going to run. Moreover, we are using geekbot to generate daily reports on the operations channel so this ease the process of organizing the day flow and end of day flow.

so far everything looks good we didn't notice any problem however it failed one or twices through our whole usage.

- 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 :)

Smart scheduling is based on the local time of the participants. And the price :)

Nothing in particular; it's simple and easy to use

So easy to deploy, manage and customize to our needs, this is exactly what we needed in this pandemic. We are now 9 people working remotely and Geekbot just makes things so easier for us in this context. Slack integration is as easy as it is a lifesaver!

We've only tested the basic features but are priced for the full thing. Segmented pricing options would be great for small startups like ourselves, maybe?

Thanks for letting us know how we can improve Mathieu :) It's always nice to get some real feedback!

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.

Geekbot helps our team being productive and efficient.

Sometimes it gets crazy and forgets about some team members or sends the report reminder in strange times :)

Appreciated mentioning the pros and most importantly the cons of Geekbot, Olga :) It's always nice to learn what can you do to improve more and if at any case this is still bugging you, please reach out to our customer support in order to get this sorted the soonest!

Interface is simple to understand, daily survey was easy to create and implement, no glitches in execution, and all the responses are rounded periodically into one report that gets sent to the admin via email

No ability to aggregate and report all responses into one report that gets delivered at a specific time

Appreciated your feedback Sensei, we would definitely take your suggestion into careful consideration :)

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 :)

* Easy to setup standup* Easy to customize different questions* Ability to set preferences as to when you get notified* Ability for standup to get broadcasted in slack channel

* Sometimes the software is a little buggy (geekbot will forget to notify me, sometimes responses do not go through)* Ability to ask random question is there, but in order for me to manually add it to our existing standup, I had to manually add 150 questions to our standup, not fun hehe.

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.

Geekbot makes it very easy to prompt our engineers via Slack, offering a couple of very easy straightforward questions: What did you learn today; How will you use that in production? This ease of use and consistency makes viewing the results very fast. Of course, if they are simply too busy, it can easily be dismissed, so it doesn't become annoying, and therefore continues to be used.

I can honestly say that since using Geekbot, I have not found a single issue with it. Maybe we could use more of its potential, but for what we need right now, it is 100% the correct tool for the job.

Amazing real-life story here Paul, thanks so much for sharing :) You are setting a high bar for us and hope that we will continue to help your team learn and innovate!

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 :)

It's handling our standup almost entirely asynchronously. Brings a lot of discipline, visibility, and helps us save a LOT of time (not 30 mins standups anymore)

Nothing is missing for me. I would personally love it if they gamified it a little bit, but this is in the "bonus points" category.

Thanks so much for your review Pierre-Alain :) Feel free to reach out in order to discuss the gamification option further.

The product is very much useful specially for technology . We can even attach files and send it to the team where swiftly. The most interesting feature of the product is shortcut commands.

Its difficult to send multiple text. We have create snippet and then send it.

Much appreciated Aditya :) If you still facing any difficulties, please pass by the support in order to find a more efficient way of do that :)

Very convenient tool to synchronize a remote team. We use it as a text daily standup as well as for being informed about overall team health. So it's a very big friend for managers and I can recommend it for any remote team

Seriously, we're fully satisfied. Don't know what to say about cons

Glad Geekbot is a good fit for your remote team, Yuriy! Thanks for your kind words :)

So far our team is only using Geekbot to handle Standup, but it is amazing. There is not a single thing missing there. A most appreciated feature is that it handles timezones. Our company works with people from Europe, the US, South America and New Zealand without this, standup would be a mess. Also love that people can pick and choose the best time for them to fill their standup, that's especially practical for contractors that have variable hours.

It would be amazing if the whole setting up of standups could be done directly in slack, but honestly I don't see anything I don't like about Geekbot so far.

Highly appreciated your review on Geekbot and thanks for all the love Marie :)

Geekbot easily aggregates the daily updates from all our teams so our managers can easily see what problems need immediate attention. It saves time which can be devoted to other tasks. Highly recommended!

Nothing! It's a simple tool that does exactly what it advertises.

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!

Love the daily check in feature, really great for hybrid teams

Can be hard to get new users integrated with Slack