All reviews of Geeekbot

Benefits:

It's timely reminder helped me to get timely report of my team mates work progress. Daily reminder for their on going work progress, hurdles they are facing. Set up daily meeting reminders and calendar events.

Drawbacks:

Sometimes it feels like talking to a bot. It will be nice if we have some more AI feature in this.

In sum:

Overall it saves time talking to individual person about their progress. Till date had good experience with the bot.

Benefits:

We've been using geekbot for the past month and have found it really increases the engagement of our team. We have both a daily and a weekly check-in and generally have 100% participation.

Drawbacks:

The only thing I don't like is that it posts the engagement to the channel, so everyone can see if some members didn't reply.

Benefits:

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

Drawbacks:

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

In sum:

We use this for a daily gratitude practice with the team--really smooth

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

Benefits:

It is really easy to use and helps keeping our team on the same page with our daily standups.

Drawbacks:

I cannot list anything negative. It is really simple and straight-forward for our team.

Benefits:

Geekbot helps our team being productive and efficient.

Drawbacks:

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

In sum:

We use Geekbot for our virtual standup. We configured it in a way that it asks for a report in the evening. So we write what we've done today and what we are going to do tomorrow. This way we have our next day planned in beforehand which is great for the mental health cause having a day planned helps you sleep at night tight :)

Benefits:

The software is very easy to implement and use. It helps our team keep an overview what of everyone is working on on a day to day basis.

Drawbacks:

It would be nice if there was the option as administrator to set the participation days of each user individually, instead of them having to submit it via their personal preferences.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

In sum:

As a software engineer it is important to always be up to speed with the code being written in your company. Even when the code doesn't directly impact what you're working on today, it does impact your code. We use Geekbot each day in Slack to request engineers post updates to what they've learned. By doing this, we're able to monitor potential areas of mentorship. We are a company that thrives on learning, and Geekbot makes the overall understanding of how we're doing that, much easier.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

In sum:

It took me 5 minutes to setup and add all my little details and settings, it posts everyone's reports in our dedicated channel and people can check those out whenever in a clear and easy way. We ask "Do you need to talk to anyone ?" each day, and people tag whoever it is they have to talk to. Easy and super useful. I love the option to get the standup DM whenever you connect from a specific time !

Benefits:

Geekbot is by far the best Daily Standup app for slack! I'm attending college and have a Software Engineering group project. Our group needed a Daily Standup slack bot to make our Standups easier and we had tried two others before with bad luck. Standup the customer support gave us so many problems so we switched to Geekbot and we could not be happier!! Geekbot has been excellent and I've recommended it to other teams at school who have equally loved it. I highly recommend it!!

Drawbacks:

There is nothing to complain about, we have had nothing but a pleasant experience with Geekbot so far.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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

Benefits:

If you prefer a really fun and clean UI for communicating with your team, this is a great app. Highly recommend it for helping with your team communication and coordination on projects.

Drawbacks:

I think the software is very simple. And that could be seen as a downside, but I much prefer it this way.

In sum:

Generally just very happy with the enhancement in production and communication.

Benefits:

It helps a lot the communication. We used have problems doings standup meetings online, with webcams. It was so annoying, everyday people had problems with the internet connection. Now it's so easy to get updated about the teams work. We have teams in 4 different states in Brazil and use geekbot everyday in different slacks channels. We are really enjoying it.

Drawbacks:

In the beginning, some people had problems to report in more the one channel with different questions, but as soon as we learned how to use it, it got easier!

In sum:

Easy to set. Easy to use. And the support team is really helpful.

Benefits:

* 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

Drawbacks:

* 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.

In sum:

As an extremely busy senior practictioner in a remote startup, geekbot gives me invaluable insight both into what my coworkers are doing and into what the heck I actually do. Along with Harvest, I often use it to answer questions about where my time went yesterday and where today's time is intended to go. You might think I'd be annoyed by the daily questions, but in fact I am greatly reassured that my time is being intelligently spent and, when there are problems meeting those goals, that I understand why. I don't think remote teams should operate without it.

Benefits:

- 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

Drawbacks:

- 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

Benefits:

We have been doing our standups with Geekbot and it has been super helpful in getting us to work more asynchronously. Although I didn't dig too deep into the dashboard, having the insights will be great to see how it is working for our team.

Drawbacks:

I did have a few issues with the app disconnecting from Slack and not loading again. I had to try multiple times until it finally reconnected.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

In sum:

Geekbot allows for us to have more regular check-ins and stand-up meetings with employees on a remote team. Being on a remote team is quite lonely at times and having Geekbot be a non-committal daily check-in really helps us stay on the same page with our team. The other reports are interesting and I'm excited to collect more datapoints over-time to get a nice gauge on how the team is feeling as a whole.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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

In sum:

Geekbot staff and the bot have both been exceptional, proactive, and helpful. For a student project that demands steady progress amidst other responsibilities, Geekbot creates a level of accountability that keeps the entire team in motivated and in the loop.

Benefits:

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

Drawbacks:

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

Benefits:

Intuitive interface, easy to use, very efficient, works great on my mobile phone as well. Makes team updates very easily digested & read

Drawbacks:

I'm extremely satisfied with Geekbot as a user and a team administrator, I can't find any cons at the moment.

Benefits:

I like the web interface to manage the standups. I also like the dead simple integration with Slack and all of the slack commands you can use to pause standup updates (like if you're on vacation), and to start new standup reports. I like that Geekbot does everything we need it to do without additional complexity and without being intrusive.

Drawbacks:

It costs money, but ultimately what it offers makes it worth it. I've tried other hacky solutions and they just aren't worth the headache.

Benefits:

GeekBot helps get teams on the same page. We are currently a team split between 3 timezones and 4 locations with serious concerns on inter-team communication. Moving to GeekBot almost instantly has helped bring the team closer to each other. We did some smart bot creation so all of the updates are not going into one channel. This way we have achieved not only company wide but also intra-team communication.

Drawbacks:

Difficult to track who all have completed their Daily Updates without leaving Slack. Everything else is super simple and easy to use.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

In sum:

Geekbot allowed us to implement daily standup culture within our team without leaving Slack. We are a distributed small team that has members from 3 different countries, and we manage our daily standups + retrospectives through Geekbot. 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.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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

In sum:

Overall experience is good

Benefits:

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!

Drawbacks:

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?

Benefits:

The reports functionality and being able to customize it and trigger it for specific days of the week

Drawbacks:

For our usage, there is nothing lacking right now.

In sum:

The team was very helpful and their software does exactly what we need it to do. Thanks Geekbot!

Benefits:

It's an easy way to handle daily standups when doing scrum. Lets everyone know what they're working on for keeping a record on tasks. It's really easy to use, convenient and can be customized to your needs (for example, pausing the standup when going on vacation or something similar).

Drawbacks:

The fact it's a bot makes it easier to ignore what other people are doing, instead of having to hear them when doing a daily standup in person. It's easy to disable the standup and sometimes you may be bothered by having to remember to set off the standup for a couple of days.

In sum:

Improve our daily standups with a remote team.

Benefits:

I honestly prefer face-face standups but I know that's not always possible with travel and life so when we're not doing face-face we rely on geekbot to keep the team up to date

In sum:

Daily reminders to ensure team communication doesn't fall off.

Benefits:

My team and I have been using Geekbot for a few months now, and we really like it! It has some great features that make our lives easier. For example, it is very easy to use with a web interface, integrates with Slack, and has analytics and reporting. Our team uses it daily to improve team collaboration and their productivity. Another aspect of the software that I really appreciate is how well-designed the user interface is. There are lots of little details that make the experience better - from notifications of the bots, to having all of our active standups in one admin place so we can manage more in less time. And lastly, their customer service team has been fantastic too - they always respond quickly when we need help or have questions about anything! In conclusion, thanks so much for creating such an awesome standup app!

Drawbacks:

I've been using Geekbot for a while now and have had the opportunity to use it in many different situations. First, let me say that I appreciate the work they do and all of the hard work that goes into developing the product. It's not easy and it is important to recognise this. Here are my thoughts about what I don't like about Geekbot. First, I love the idea of providing people with an anonymous survey because people can be truly honest, but it would be great if we could nudge the anonymous participants using Geekbot to complete the survey. This is because currently, we have a super low survey participation rate which is really hurting our process. We used Simple Poll previously that had this feature, we would love if they could develop these features! Secondly, their pricing for this seems expensive to me since they charge us per user. The pricing structure makes sense if you are a small team < 10, but we have a lot of interns and temp staff (about 23 people) so the cost stacks up very quickly. We will still continue using it despite the high price tag, but it'd be great to be able to cap it to a flat fee when you exceed a certain size, Simple Poll has that flat fee structure so please consider doing the same!

Benefits:

Integration with Slack is incredibly useful and simple. Keeps myself as well as my team up to date with progress.

Drawbacks:

If I forget to post a response for a check-in and decide to do that the next day before the check-in time, I will not be prompted for a response. Geekbot should ask for a response exactly as scheduled and should not depend on whether you've given a response that day or not.

Benefits:

- 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

Drawbacks:

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

Benefits:

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)

Drawbacks:

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.

Benefits:

Very easy to configure and use. All the people in our team, from technology experts to those ones who have a hard time dealing with these things, use it to the perfection. The organization and communication of our different departments improved like never before. The support team is very attentive and quick to solve any issuel

Drawbacks:

I can't think in anything bad, it fulfills its purpose perfectly

In sum:

It has substantially improved our communication and organization for error detection and improvements proposals that were not treated efficiently before

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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

Benefits:

I have built a habit waking up and then joining my team's standup meeting. I love this product as I can provides me with data on how my team is feeling and at the same time I know what everyone is working on, which is sometimes hard when your run a remote company

Drawbacks:

Nothing comes to mind....Well maybe if the moment I post my stand up update, Geeky would order my daily coffee. That would be cool :)

Benefits:

All the standups are customizable. You can have many teams as you like, each with a different standup, including questions and schedules. We've used it daily in our team for more than 6 months and it's totally part of our daily routine.

Drawbacks:

The leak of support for some languages on default answers. You can skip some questions or the entire report, but you have to use the specific keywords. Customize those words would be great.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

Benefits:

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

Drawbacks:

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

Benefits:

Love how customizable the stand-ups are, and how personalized it feels. There are so many little features they added which you will find through the free trial - trust me I can't name them all because you'll see them! Makes for such a pleasant set-up and usage experience.

Drawbacks:

There's some bugs with the automated reminders being sent for each of our time-zones. For example my team members get their reminders but I don't (and I'm the one who set it up!)

Benefits:

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, and we often all work remotely. Doing it on Slack with Geekbot, whenever someone starts his workday, was really a good idea because it enables us to keep that good habit of daily reporting our work while not necessarily doing it all at the same time. Among the interesting features that Geekbot provides are the reminders (if you don't do your standup, expect to be harassed!) and it tells you what you commited to do the day before, when you start your report. We've used it daily in our team for more than 3 months and it's totally part of our daily routine.

Drawbacks:

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

Benefits:

I enjoyed being prompted to track my daily mood, energy, tasks and other day-to-day feelings, obstacles and wins. I also enjoyed being able to see others' Standup reports so that I could gauge how my coworkers are doing/feeling.

Drawbacks:

I enjoyed many of the features that my company used! I feel that there were many features that we have not yet tried out, though.

In sum:

Overall, geekbot increases positive peace in my workplace through daily prompts that boost productivity and encourage remote communication!

Benefits:

Its a great tool for teams who are wanting to run stand ups. Its helpful as you don't have to dial in everyday and people can still get visability over progress and blockers. It can easily be configured to prompt you at a flexible time.

Drawbacks:

Nothing its pretty easy to use. Sometimes it can pop up on weekend but I need to configure the times properly I think.

Benefits:

Geekbot is dead simple, and it lives where our team lives: in Slack. Set up your questions, your recipients, and your schedule, and you're off and running.

Drawbacks:

Nothing to fault here. It's got the right mix of features and simplicity to cover the basics.

In sum:

Geekbot is a huge time and cost saver for us. Letting people write daily updates asynchronously via slack means everybody can post/read status updates as it suits their schedule. Avoiding those in person meetings saves dozens of hours a week and gives everyone larger blocks of uninterrupted time to get work done.

Benefits:

Ability to customise it to suit my business needs

Drawbacks:

Cost of it but i do believe the product is well made so i would not fault the payment.

In sum:

Excellent tool to hold standups with on Slack started using it during the pandemic as a way to run e-version of the standup but not easy on Zoom/Teams calls so doing it on Slack made it not only seamless but efficient. The outcomes of projects also improved due to the tracking via standups and cross collaboration and support provided by each other from the answers they provided to the bot were posted in a dedicated standup channel all providing invaluable experiences for the students i was working with.

Benefits:

Easy to setup Easy to get everyone to user Nice overview of peoples daily tasks Doesn't disturb people unnecessarily

Drawbacks:

Our team works in regions with 2 different weekends. so would be nice if you could set a personal weekend e.g Friday, Saturday for Dubai and Saturday, Sunday for Europe.

In sum:

Very possitive. We've been trying many tools in the past but the team never really used them. however they all seem very happy with Geekbot and took minimal implementation effort from the management team to make it happen

Benefits:

It's been a really great experience, it has helped us to streamline daily to-dos for our team and encourage team communication surrounding specific tasks.

Drawbacks:

The only con we have is that we wish the price was a bit lower per user.

In sum:

Amazing experience, its helped us tremendously.

Benefits:

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.

Drawbacks:

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.

Benefits:

Geekbot really helped information flow between our US and India teams. It was originally hard for us to keep track of what everyone else was doing, and there was no convenient time to have a scrum because of the 12 hour time difference. After using geekbot, people were able to jump in and help others because they knew what they were working on. It also helped increase the accountability on the team by having a team wide commitment to what everyone was working on.

Drawbacks:

I wish there was integration with Jira - that way, you can easily see the tickets others are working on without having to search them yourself. I've been told this integration is coming, though!

Benefits:

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

Drawbacks:

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

In sum:

Perfect. Work daily and are happy :)

Benefits:

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

Drawbacks:

- 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.