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Haystack
Company blog · usehaystack.io/blogbusinessproductivitycareer
Haystack is the company blog at usehaystack.io, writing about business, productivity and career. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Why Past Attempts of Software Metrics Have Failed Us”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blog of an engineering analytics company, covering software delivery metrics and competitor comparisons. HN comments mostly concern its Launch HN, a site outage, and who first published a metrics article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Haystack empowers engineering teams with real-time insights into their team’s performance, helping you remove bottlenecks and accelerate delivery. By integrating directly with tools like JIRA and GitHub, we provide a unified view of your entire delivery lifecycle—allowing you to clean, connect, and
Most-linked posts?
- Why Past Attempts of Software Metrics Have Failed Us2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-04
- Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the heads up, looking into this now! :) In the meantime, we've opened up our team Slack (link below) if you'd like more info on Haystack (or just want to jam about metrics with other eng leaders from companies like Microsoft and The Economist). I believe this link should work: https://www.usehaystack.io/haystack-slack-community And sorry for the technical difficulties. Should be resolved shortly.
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on “Launch HN: Haystack (YC W21) – Engineering analytics that don’t suck”Submitted Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout as a story · 344 points
HN discussionHeads up: site is not loading. iOS Safari & macOS Chrome. Mixed Content: The page at ' https://usehaystack.io/ ' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure favicon ' http://www.usehaystack.io/favicon.ico '. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS. Edit: It appears to be an issue on the naked domain only.
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on “Launch HN: Haystack (YC W21) – Engineering analytics that don’t suck”Submitted We cancelled standups and let the team build as a story · 221 points
HN discussionThey published a blog post comparing themselves to GitPrime and other competitors: https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/top-alternatives-to-gitprime...
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on “Launch HN: Haystack (YC W21) – Engineering analytics that don’t suck”Submitted Show HN: Haystack – Visibility into How Software Teams Works as a story · 39 points
HN discussionThere's a free 14 day trial, then billed based on active devs (aka # of devs who create pull requests). Also, here's a link to the pricing section! https://www.usehaystack.io/#Pricing
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on “Launch HN: Haystack (YC W21) – Engineering analytics that don’t suck”Submitted 83% of Developers Suffer from Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds as a story · 16 points
HN discussionOh, you’re right – your (Abi Noda’s) Leaddev article ( https://leaddev.com/reporting-metrics/flawed-five-engineerin... ) was published in 2021, not 2022. Sorry for getting that wrong. I think I confused the ad for “2022 Conferences & Events” at the start of the article with the publication date. It doesn’t seem true that Julian’s Haystack article ( https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/software-development-metrics... ) wa…
Comment linking /blog/software-development-metrics-top-5-commonly-misused-metrics
on “The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics”Submitted Why Past Attempts of Software Metrics Have Failed Us as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis article written by Abi Noda in 2022 is suspiciously similar to the article https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/software-development-metrics... written by Julian Colina in 2021. Not only do both articles talk about the same five metrics, listed in the same order, this newer article does nothing but paraphrase the original article in its description of each metric. For example, this newer article claims “a manager sa…
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on “The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics”Submitted Signs Your Team Is Suffering from 'Burnout Debt' as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you're looking at the ops level to oversee a project (which is sounds like you are), Haystack might be a good option: https://www.usehaystack.io/
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on “Ask HN: Are there any tools for viewing activity across multiple GitHub repos”Submitted Developers are artists not factory workers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The difference between good and bad engineering teams as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to give feedback to a developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Slack alerts you wish GitHub had as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Devs have enough reason to bloat estimation – velocity isnt a performance metric as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git Signals to Identify Burnout as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Past Attempts of Software Metrics Have Failed Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Underestimated Force in Tech – Cycle Time as a story · 1 points
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