I'm the Co-founder of Steer and the Maker of Transparent Startups.
This platform is 100% built with Elixir and the Phoenix Framework. I can proudly say it's a blazing fast application. I cannot be happier with the performance and productivity achieved with Elixir. I highly recommended it for your brand new projects. :)
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Cheers, Rafa
Seems like over engineering to the max. :D
On the other hand they call it the hipster stack, so well done, I guess?
It's a simple monolithic application with a relational database. Does this sound like over engineering? I don't think so.
It's actually the opposite. Which one seems like an overkill, Server A or Server B (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CngB1sfWIAAbOFi.jpg)? ;)
Background: Just today I read that DHH considered Phoenix pretty cool, but Rails is enough if you don't need the real-time features.
Anyway, of course you can build your services how you like and it's probably a lot fun to use Phoenix :D
With that being said, looking at your landing page, its really hard to figure out how this works.
However, there are many benefits of doing Weekly Check-ins:
- Many teams work remotely nowadays, with different time zones. It can be tricky to find a regular time for the 1-1s.
- Some people prefer async communication instead of face-to-face meetings. Meetings kill productivity.
- Managers and team members have everything documented and linked to actions through the time so effective follow-ups can be done.
Regarding the landing page, we're working on making a few videos to explain better how Steer works. Any other suggestion would be appreciated.
Many thanks for the feedback.
I looked at your site, but couldn't really see any feature list of what it actually does, or why it is better.
[1] https://support.gusto.com/hc/en-us/articles/235063588-Survey...
Gusto is an amazing and complete HRMS platform (payroll, benefits, holidays, onboarding, etc). We're more in the Performance Management System space (https://blog.newsteer.com/what-is-a-performance-management-s...)
What Gusto have is an "Employee Happiness survey" feature. Every month you can ONLY ask this one single question: “How happy are you at work this month?” And your employees answers with sad/happy face. It's the same concept than NPS (Net Promoter Score), but for internal happiness.
With Steer we want to go further, and our goal is to help managers become leaders rather than micro-managers.
We help Managers create weekly conversations with their employees, so they can get and give feedback, know instantly where the roadblocks are, give visibility to everyone and congratulate when the job was done great. Everything without being constantly looking over employee's shoulders.
In terms of features, with Steer you can:
- Select the cadence you want (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly).
- You can ask the questions you really want to ask (or choose from our powerful question bank).
- Reply employee's questions and manage all the history from everyone in your team.
- Have beautiful analytics dashboard.
Hope it helps, but feel free to contact me in case you need more information!
