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Orbit is hiring multiple roles in engineering, product, and beyond! We're helping organizations build enthusiastic communities of technology adopters. Our community experience platform helps companies identify, measure, and improve their community members’ engagement, all while focusing on creating value instead of merely capturing it.
We are former developer advocates and community builders ourselves, and now we’re creating the tools we wished we had so that others can build highly engaged communities of their own. We're backed by an amazing group of angels and investors including Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal.
We are a remote-first company operating between UTC-7 and UTC+3. Bonus points for being in France, US, or UK, but as long as you're in that time zone range, we're happy to talk.
We're growing very fast and hiring across more than 10 roles, including but not limited to:
Orbit | Remote | US and Europe timezones | Full-time | https://orbit.love
Orbit is hiring multiple roles in engineering, product, and beyond! We're helping organizations build enthusiastic communities of technology adopters. Our community experience platform helps companies identify, measure, and improve their community members’ engagement, all while focusing on creating value instead of merely capturing it.
We are former developer advocates and community builders ourselves, and now we’re creating the tools we wished we had so that others can build highly engaged communities of their own. We're backed by an amazing group of angels and investors including Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal.
We are a remote-first company operating between UTC-7 and UTC+3. Bonus points for being in France, US, or UK, but as long as you're in that time zone range, we're happy to talk.
We're growing very fast and hiring across more than 10 roles, including but not limited to:
Hello HN! We released this week a free version of our solution for small teams.
OKRs and 1-on-1s have become a very important part of a manager toolbox, but it can be difficult to justify the cost of paying for another productivity solution.
We think every manager should be able to communicate well with their team members and keep them engaged. And every employee deserves a great manager!
That's why we switched to a freemium model with full access to our OKRs and 1-on-1 features. We have additional features (analytics, reviews, surveys, etc.) under the paid plan.
If you're a manager and you wish it was easier to manage your OKRs and 1-on-1s, please try Happierco free plan and let us know your feedback. We hope you like it! :)
We would really love to get your feedback on this.
We started months ago as an employee engagement solution. We got customers coming from some of our competitors, trying to implement OKRs, CPM, pulse surveys and other systems du jour. They were not only having issues with the complexity of existing tools, but also the employee engagement activities were not actually “engaging” to employees.
Employees felt like they had to use these systems to please the company leadership. So, that wasn’t helping at all in terms of employee happiness.
Let’s be honest, OKRs and other performance management systems can be hard to do, and are usually badly implemented in companies, which is hurtful for culture and morale.
So we made this new version of Happierco. A team communication solution that keeps employees happy and productive.
Happierco gives each employee and team a profile where they share their current goals and progress, receive feedback and recognition from colleagues and managers. Team members can reach out to each other to create personal connections. They can also answer surveys about their workplace or organize around specific topics impacting their work.
Data about employees’ work and performance is usually scattered across multiple tools. Happierco makes it easy to integrate with other productivity software to pull the data into teams and users profiles.
We want to make it part of day to day work, and useful to everyone, instead of building a tool that is only useful for People Operations, HR and company leadership.
Please take a look and let us know what you think. Any feedback, even the harshest critics, are welcome!
26% of our daily users are on mobile, but we're not yet happy about how it works on mobile browsers. We should have an update next week that focuses on making it more mobile friendly.
I think what you're against are the sync daily standups, not the async, usually written, ones.
If I was an employee, I would prefer you to let me self-manage my work however I feel comfortable using whatever tool suits me and my team, instead of constantly interrupting on Jira, Trello, etc. And I'll keep you updated at a frequency we agreed on (daily or weekly).
It's also great to read daily updates of others on the team, and even other teams, to learn about what they're working on without having to check at multiple places or interrupt their work. It's usually a great way to discuss, give and receive feedback, asynchronously.
Also, it's strange that you're suggesting "reach out on Slack" as an alternative. Doesn't that promote the "incessant messaging that Slack allows" you're decrying at the start of the article?
That’s my biggest gripe with stand ups. Management has as much if not more access to all the project management tools the developers do, so if they need a daily standup they should be able to get a sense of what’s going on simply by correctly using the tool.
I think clearly defined goals are one way to effectively measure productivity. There are methods like OKRs which help when used right.
So any company with a good goal setting process can afford to give employees not only flexible hours but also any other flexibility that makes them more autonomous in doing their work. Employee will be happier and more productive.
Atlassian has a major flaw in their understanding of how a lot of developers work and it is evident by all heir "new" versions of stuff. They've made simple editing harder (WYSIWYG only, which often makes bad assumptions), made drastic changes to the UI, broken workflows, removed keyboard shortcuts and made it impossible to open an issue full page by clicking a linkbun the web app without first loadingbit as an overlay. They are, hands down, the worst offender of "if it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is" that I've ever seen. I'm constantly advocating for anything else in every org I work with. An issue tracker doesn't need to be full of sugar, it needs to be simple and consistent. Atlassian fails magnificently at both of those.
It absolutely feels like a tool for managers, not developers. I just want to see what I'm supposed to be working on and push them to the right person when I've done my part, and all of the rest is noise to me.
Jira puts issue management first (and even fails a bit with that IMO), and makes getting work done more painful than necessary.
Sorry about that. Where in the article did we assume the gender? Looking and I'm not seeing. Not native english speakers though so there may be something we're missing.
"Did you just assume my gender" is generally a throwaway meme by right-leaning trolls these days. It's a caricature of an outraged feminist or non-binary person, not really a sentence you'd normally hear from either of the two groups.
But on a more serious note the article does switch from the neutral "they" to a gendered "he" in at least one place (see the other comment), which is not just unnecessary but also inconsistent. Just stick with "they", unless the person's gender is important (note: it almost never is, even "women's issues" don't require an implicit "she" and using "they" in these cases is actually even more inclusive because it also covers trans men).
I’m Ulrich, co-founder of Happierco. We’re building the first employee-centric performance management solution.
We help our users turn their company culture into a competitive advantage by enabling the empowerment of rank-and-file employees to drive business growth and effect change in the company.
The numerous solutions in the market all see performance management from the lenses of managers and are just trying to build better tools for managers to collect information.
With Happierco, we want to go further. We are bringing more value by increasing positive interactions between the employees, enabling transparency and faster employee development, which in turn benefits the company as a whole.
Performance management is frequently a source of frustration for employees across every industry, especially creative ones. So I guess it’ll be a subject of great interest here on HN. I am looking forward to the discussion!
Orbit is hiring multiple roles in engineering, product, and beyond! We're helping organizations build enthusiastic communities of technology adopters. Our community experience platform helps companies identify, measure, and improve their community members’ engagement, all while focusing on creating value instead of merely capturing it.
We are former developer advocates and community builders ourselves, and now we’re creating the tools we wished we had so that others can build highly engaged communities of their own. We're backed by an amazing group of angels and investors including Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal.
We are a remote-first company operating between UTC-7 and UTC+3. Bonus points for being in France, US, or UK, but as long as you're in that time zone range, we're happy to talk.
We're growing very fast and hiring across more than 10 roles, including but not limited to:
* Software Engineer (Rails)
* Engineering Manager
* Solutions Engineer
* Data Analyst
* Community Advocate - Developer Communities
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