Launch HN: Haystack (YC W21) – Engineering analytics that don’t suck

Hey HN! I'm Julian, co-founder of Haystack ( https://usehaystack.io ). We’re building one-click dashboards and alerts using Github data. While managing teams from startups to more established companies like Cloudflare, my cofounder Kan and I were constantly trying to improve our team and process. But it was pretty tough to tell if our efforts were paying off. Even tougher to tell where we could improve. We tried messing around with JIRA which gave us story points and tickets completed but it didn’t help us dig deeper on where we could improve. We found a few tools that integrated with Github measuring # of commits, lines of code, and even comparing engineers using these metrics! - but we didn’t like that approach. We wanted to know (1) how quickly we deliver as a team (2) what bottlenecks tend to get in the way and (3) as we make adjustments, are they helping us improve? We scoured the internet looking for every piece of research on the topic we could find, talked to &gt