Comment by wtbauer20 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by wtbauer20 | Hacker News Reader

OP here. Here’s a quick summary about what we’re building:

We centralize the main features of your everyday tools (PRs, CI, Kanban tasks) and build a live feed of everything happening within your development teams. Essentially, we aggregate a "quick view" of your team's development status and give you a way to manage tasks directly from our platform.

We just opened up beta testing and anyone can create an account here. We're still quite early, so it takes about 10 minutes to get your tools connected: https://preview.hetchr.com/signup

Currently, we have integrated Github Issues, Github Pull Requests, Jira, and two native Hetchr ATOMs. Next on the list are CircleCI / Github Actions / Jenkins.

Some additional notes if you'd like to try it out:

- The only data we permanently store is your name, email, and authentication credential. While using Hetchr, we only collect and store locally the data necessary to display your workspace. For Jira, we access/store your project's configurations and the issues. For Github, we access/store your Issues and Pull Requests' comments (not the code). You can delete your account and any associated data in the setting section.

- In order to install our Jira ATOM, you must be the Jira administrator and in order to install our Github ATOMs, you must be the repo owner.

Thanks for taking a look! I’d love to hear your thoughts and I’m happy to answer questions.

Here's our Slack group if you’d prefer to chat directly:

https://join.slack.com/t/hetchr/shared_invite/zt-dkdiysva-Yt...

I've guessed at that summary from the screenshots. I would've much appreciated it if you told me somewhere in the first three pages of low information density graphics I scrolled through.

This misses how your audience works - pretty much every engineer would like to have the meat of the answer served first, and then you add the screenshots for corporate sales.

So, thanks for explaining it here, and maybe consider adding it to the main page :)

Thanks, I'll definitely make these changes. Appreciate it!

I usually assume landing pages are made for corporate sales, and skip them, going straight to the docs or other pages. I agree with your comment; there needs to be more meat here (though it seems like the public facing website is probably still in a beta phase).

Advice for the OP: I used to make professional briefings for the military. The single most important part of any slideshow or document was the WIFM page - the Why It F**ing Matters page (I kid you not, that acronym was what everyone used). It gave a no-fluff, terse summary of why the product was relevant to the audience, often including a 3 sentence overview of the briefing, and one paragraph explaining what they should take away from it. Think of it like a very terse abstract, using the plainest language possible, very much like what you wrote above. For the people who need to know what a thing is, it's a godsend that keeps them from instantly moving on.

Thanks, that's great to know. Love the Why It F*ing Matters page. Definitely going to make sure we get straight to the point.

I recommend adding more Product Manager tools like Monday, Smartsheets, etc. I notice that a lot of PMs have separate tools for managing roadmap stuff (even though Jira works for this too, idk).

Definitely on our to-do list!

Please add an ATOM that connects to anything which allows for a decent Gantt chart. As an architect-come-product-manager, I really need visibility of a gantt to see where we are in a delivery cycle, against what your other ATOMs provide (issue tracking, PRs, etc). No tool comes close to offering this, especially when my team is tied to Jira. There are Jira plugins but they suck, there are calendar views but they suck, there are gantt tools, but they’re external to Jira/GitHub so break context when jumping between them, or require some browser-window-fu to lay out nicely on my screen. The latter is impossible with an iPad, and not great if I want to present either in a meeting or permanently on a wall mounted TV.

Also something that could maybe display some charts based off a JSON URL, that could be sweet for viewing data, and allow us devs to specify the data we want.

I’ve signed up for a beta so would love to give it a go.

> OP here. Here’s a quick summary about what we’re building:

Why isn't this summary on your page, front and center? Why instead there are animations, illustrations, skewed screenshots the size of atoms (yes, pun intended)?

Spotify's Backstage suffers from many of the same issues, but at least it spends time explaining what it actually does: http://backstage.io

For folks on AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline there still isn't a good dashboard tool for everyone. Maybe consider some features for AWS teams?

Good call, to be honest we haven't had many requests for AWS Codebuild / CodePipeline. Outside of Github, most of our requests are for Azure Devops, Bitbucket and Gitlab. I'll bring it up with the team and see when/how we can implement them.

Looks cool so far! An ATOM for Clubhouse[1] would be great, and I think their API should support it.

[1]: https://clubhouse.io/

Can you integrate AWS CodePipeline and CloudWatch?

There are no good integrations, and I would love to be able to get a quick overview. Bonus points for nice display on mobile.

Definitely. We're working on our priority list and will give these a +1.

Will one be able to embed a Hetchr ATOM into Hetchr in the future?

Mind elaborating? All Hetchr ATOMs are embedded into your workspace.

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