Promote your work: what will your product help me accomplish?
Dexter Awoyemi
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"When we buy a product, we essentially hire something to get a job done. If it does the job well, when we are confronted with the same job, we hire the same product again." - Clayton Christen
I personally struggle with this because the ideal use case is a single clear job-to-be-done, but I'll start...
I'm building Nack, which is a general-purpose, cross-platform AI chat app. So far, people have used it to create teaching lesson plans, recipes, pet-training exercises, business ideas, content, CVs and likely a lot more 🙂
To generalise: people hire Nack to streamline information processing, communication and collaboration, which ultimately improves their learning, productivity and mental well-being.
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Erkin Bek@erkin_bek
Well look, our product is more B2B oriented
We create software that helps companies understand and manage employee productivity and understand how they work and how effectively they do their jobs.
That is not just looking at the end result, but how the person is doing the work, what they're doing and what they're encountering while they're working.
It's especially difficult when you as a manager are alone and you have 50 employees and you don't know what they do, what they face and how they solve problems.
During feedback (if it is practiced in the company) it will be difficult to give, because you don't know exactly how your employee worked based only on the final results.
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@erkin_bek Thanks Erkin, that's super clear and so is the video.
Though as an employee, I'd be concerned about the level of surveillance.
From a managerial perspective, it certainly sounds like it makes the process of giving employee feedback much easier to quantify. Managers must want the ability to do this exact thing. Though I wonder whether it takes away from the more relationship-oriented style I see lacking in many startups.
All of my thoughts are obviously anecdotal. Very clear job-to-be-done in any case.
@dextersjab Yeah, of course I thought it would be like a stakeout too, but we're like some companies not tracking an employee.
For example, we don't take screenshots, we don't make employees look at their computer camera (yes, yes, some do). At most of what we do is track time, because it's necessary for whole analysis. Yes, and in general helps the employee himself how many hours he works per month, per day and you can even track what time I become more productive.
In any case you can send to beta use for a month. https://www.intelogos.com/ take a look and try to use it and say, you might not even like it because it's different for everyone.
Thanks a lot for that Erkin!
As I was thinking about I realised how useful it could be to both sides to track time spent.
All the best with the product. Following!
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