Bots · 2017-06-24

‘Nikabot’ keeps track of your team’s timesheets on Slack – Bot

If you’re a member of a development team then chances are you’re constantly using Slack for communication & coordination with other team members. Nikabot is a Slack bot that allows you to stick within your favorite environment while it asks team members what they’ve been working on, keeping data up to date.

Nikabot started out 2 years ago as an actual human office manager at Impossible Labs, a Lisbon, Portugal-based incubator. Nika, as the person is known, went around the office nagging team managers who would ask employees for their timesheets & then she’d compile them into reports & send them to Accounting. A cumbersome & error prone function that was crafted into a digital version in a hackathon, which gave birth to Nikabot.

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Nikabot makes sure you’re Online & pings you on Slack, so there’s no need to change context. It then asks you & everyone on your team, “What did you work on today?”. Data is entered daily “while it’s fresh” in memory.

So, by using the data it collects in conversations with team members, Nikabot will show you reports & insights into what your team is up to. As team leader or manager you get up-to-date team-wide overviews as well as detailed project reports. You can export date in CSV format & easily use it with your project management or billing software.

Using Nikabot helps you gain improved accounting & efficiency, as accurate data will help you as manager to allocate your resources better and help improve your planning, client billing, reporting & communication.

You can try out Nikabot for free for 30 days, & if you want to keep it, you can get their “Special Launch Offer” for US$ 4.99 per tracked user per month, which includes all of the bot’s features. 

– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –  

 
Image Credit: Nikabot 

 

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