John Furneaux

Hive - Supercharge your teamwork with analytics

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Hive's powerful productivity platform is now supercharged with analytics. Using data from your team's workspace, Hive's interactive dashboards show you your team's productivity and uses machine learning to proactively notify you about overdue projects, resourcing and bottlenecks.

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John Furneaux
Hey PH! This launch is a big step in a 12 year long dream. As frustrated young project managers, we were driven crazy by how hard it was to just get work done together, and to see overall progress. I'm beyond proud to share our answer - our existing project management platform now has powerful *predictive* analytics, based on all your Hive data. That means you don't just know who's busy this week, but who will be overloaded next week. We'll be working hard to keep making Hive a better platform to work in. Your comments and questions are super welcome and help us do that! Thanks in advance for your feedback 🙏 John and the Hive team P.S. We are excited to offer the first 100 visitors who sign up for Hive with the code "PRODUCTHUNT" a free customized dashboard so they can get exactly the graphs they want.
Abadesi
@johnfurneaux Do you think that tools like this become most useful at a certain scale? e.g. when your team is >50
John Furneaux
@abadesi Great question. I thought that would be true, but then we switched on the 'individual' dashboard, and it is *fascinating*. I found out that I am most productive on a Wednesday, and need to do *much* better on Monday mornings! Even in a team of 5 people, it can be super helpful to see how long it is taking to get things done, and where the bottlenecks are. Is that useful?
Abadesi
@johnfurneaux Yes makes sense, might suggest to @rrhoover we try it out 😄
John Furneaux
@rrhoover @abadesi Happy to give you a red carpet tour! 👑
Ryan Hoover
@johnfurneaux @abadesi tbh, I'm allergic to project management tools as I've found many teams waste time adopting new processes in search of a problem (if that makes sense). Sometimes the best tools are the most lightweight. But I'm open minded! :)
Joel Jonas Tan

I was getting swarmed with so many different platforms to coordinate work within my team... Well, that was before I found Hive! Now, my team is able to access all our tasks and files in one place. There, we have the ability to keep track on the progress we've made and delegate work more efficiently.

My only quibble previously was that the messaging was a little slow. However, after reaching out to the support team (They reply super fast btw), I was given the assurance of an improvement in performance some time during the week. To my surprise, I noticed an improvement the very next day!

I would recommend Hive to anyone out there who is in search of a productivity tool to replace all the clunky apps that they are currently buried in.

Pros:

Easy to get onboard. Improved team productivity and all my apps were now in one place!

Cons:

The ones I found were fixed by the Support & Engineering Team within a day!

Nate
Adopted Hive for the back end of our brokerage a few months ago and already I cant imagine doing my job without it. Extremely malleable, allowing you to get exactly what you need out of it without being overly difficult to use or confusing. On top of that I seriously can not speak highly enough of the support team who manage to impress me with each interaction I have with them.
John Furneaux
@bardirl We are blushing over here Nate! 😊 We'll keep working hard to improve Hive each day!
Ryan O'Neill
This looks really cool, like Slack but with more organization and less BS. Does an entire org need to adopt this or can smaller teams use it and integrate with existing tools (like Slack, etc)?
John Furneaux
@rynonl Great question - we have whole companies on Hive, and teams within companies. Both work great. Hive integrates beautifully with Slack and a ton of other platforms!
Eric Typaldos
@rynonl The Slack integration is great - once integrated you can easily drag & drop actions from Hive to your channels/DMs to share, one-click access them from Hive, and create items using slash commands. You can find the integration here: https://slack.com/apps/A1X4WCTD0... Let us know if you have any questions and we're happy to help :)
Kimmi Lorman

On-boarding with Hive was incredibly easy. Especially as a busy employee, you want to rely on tools that make your workflow easier and quicker and not add another layer of learning. I loved how I didn't have to toggle between a million different tabs and the communication between cross-office, global teams was made seamless!

Pros:

Easy to onboard, communication is super easy and it's great for tracking project status

Cons:

None!

Allycia Puzas
Is it easy to import tasks from other tools? We are a Trello office right now, but it's not great for all departments. We are looking for a new solution. We don't want to spend a TON of time switching everything over though just to test it out.
Nate
@allyciapuzas I havent used it myself but there is built in integration for importing directly from trello automatically!
Allycia Puzas
@bardirl Ooh that's great!
Kamil Rogiński

Helps getting teams on the same page in one place vs using multiple tools for communication, collaboration and projects management.

Pros:

Minimal investment to get started. Simple, intuitive.

Cons:

Some integrations might be critical in the future.

Olivia Louise
The dashboards are awesome, playing around with the sample ones now. Do I have to pay to use them after the free trial?
John Furneaux
@olivia_louise Good news - the standard dashboards are yours to keep. If you want to customize your own dashboards, you can buy a special license which means you can create and edit dashboards to your heart's content!
Olivia Louise
@johnfurneaux that is amazing news!!! I can not wait to continue playing around with the dashboard!
Slava

It would be great if there were automation tools for handling integrations.

Pros:

Great looking interface. Everything was very intuitively laid out.

Cons:

In the video at registration, it is suggested that you can integrate helpdesk software with Hive but it is not clear how to do this.

John Furneaux
Hi Vyacheslav! Good news - you can integrate helpdesk software. We use Intercom, but others work as well. Drop us a note and we'll show you how. 👍
Lauren Holliday

I love Hive's clean interface. It's just more appealing to look at! And I'm super excited to explore the analytics/productivity insights.

Pros:

Love the UI -- so clean! Super excited to play with the analytics!

Cons:

I'd love to see some cool examples =)

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