Monitoring team health in a startup

ofcoursebooks.com

10 points·zackgilbert··6 comments

I'm one of the founders of ofCourseBooks. Happy to answer any questions people might have.

We built this to help encourage ourselves to, not only be more transparent, but to not just sit in front of the computer all day, as is easy to happen while coding up new features. We also have any updates posting to slack to easily show how people are doing. It's turned into a fun little competition between us founders.

I'm one of the other cofounders (currently the step winner, ha) - I'm happy to chime in too, although Zack was the one who programmed the page, I just made it look pretty (so I could get back to getting all my steps).

I love that you are proving to others that it's possible to build a great business and still be healthy and happy. So often the message from startups is to sacrifice everything—even health and family.

I'm excited to see your business grow using this model, and hopefully others follow your example.

Heck ya! Now if only I could get Jason and Zack to catch up to my steps ;-)

This is awesome - I'd love to see more companies do this. Not out of voyeuristic fascination, but because it would represent more folks in the tech industry leading well-balanced lives.

Thanks! We totally agree. Maybe if people are interested, we'd open source it or build a tool that makes it super easy for other companies to share this data also.

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