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Ask HN: Follow.up SaaS. Is there such a thing? There should be
By nature, I am very well organized and conscientious; it's a natural progression that I work in operations. Often, I feel that part of my job is just babysitting, reminding people to do their job, and constantly reminding them of deliverables, some large and some small but essential. So I and my three reports spend a lot of time reminding people of their deliverables and deadlines. As I said, babysitting.
There are two drawbacks:
1) It's stupid, tedious, and a waste of time. Oh yeah, and most of them are executives!
2) If we get caught in the middle of a s-storms, some things inevitably fall within the cracks.
Today we hack the solution of tracking things via a google sheet, but it's tedious, long, and it cannot be partially shared with the interested parties.
Is there a SaaS where I can set up a task, add attachments, add links, then share it with an email address; then the receiver gets reminded on a timely basis (selected on an individual case basis) of the die deliverables?
Best if there's a reporting module.
TIA
- billconan 4y agowe used https://asana.com/ https://asana.com/ with a custom script to create timely reminds
- SMAAART 4y agoI have a personal Asana account, but it's not used company-wide. Can I remind people outside Asana just by using their email?
- altdataseller 4y agoWould people still ignore it? At my work, we have a Slack bot that pings us to do a certain task by a due date, and I find most people just ignore it because it’s not an actual human being that is bugging us
- SMAAART 4y agoGood point. The untold second part of the story is that it would bring accountability by reporting that not only the deliverable is now 30 days overdue, but that they ignored 30 reminders. We use Slack at work as well, and personally I don't like it. But do you have a link on how to set it up or similar?