Every standup tool I've shipped, used, or watched a team adopt eventually loses to the same thing: people forget to open it. The product is fine. The form works. The prompts are reasonable. But it sits behind a tab that nobody has open at 9:14am, and so the submissions trickle in at 10:30, or 11, or never. By Wednesday the manager is back to chasing status in DMs. By Friday the standup tool is a tab the team closes on Monday morning and reopens when someone reminds them. We hit this on our own product. So we moved the prompt into Slack. The thing that's actually broken Standups don't break because the questions are bad. They break because of friction, which mostly shows up in three places: Context-switch cost. Your engineer is in a PR, an IDE, a Linear ticket, and Slack. The standup tool is a fifth tab. The tax to switch and type the same thing in a slightly different shape is what gets skipped. The 9am punctuality assumption. Standup tools assume people will open them at the standup time. People don't.…