Propsy

I have always believed that great products and teams are a side effect of doing one’s best at one thing: Learning. But as much as we can learn from the things we can measure, our ability to overcome our own boundaries depends greatly on our willingness to sense and foster some of the most fragile elements of the complex systems around us. Incidentally, many of these happen to be among the most difficult to measure. I built Propsy to add more visibility to the good stuff happening at SomewhereWarm, and to make our own fully distributed work environment a bit more lively. I didn’t build it to reward my team's heroes, or to punish those who lagged behind: The curiosity to look at data came after Propsy had already fulfilled its purpose. The data merely validated what I already knew about our tiny team. I decided to package Propsy into a product and make it available outside SomewhereWarm in the spirit of giving back: If you care about building a learning organization, Propsy will give you yet another way to feel the “vibe” of your distributed peers and teams, and perhaps even measure their well-being. Adding Propsy to your workspace and giving kudos is — and will be — free. Currently, and while Propsy is in beta, you can add Teams and receive Propsy's monthly reports for free (up to 20 members). To learn more about how Propsy works in Slack, and what it measures for you in its current (still early) form, check out https://propsy.app :)