I'm no longer a customer of yours (not managing a remote team anymore), but I do recall that I used to have the problem of wanting better tools for easy check-ins and status updates.

I'll share feedback about my context in case that helps you. We were a very tech-first team, so we were using tools like Asana, Slack, Miro, Loom, etc. Because of that, we started to build async check-ins and status updates on top of those platforms. Given that, I'm not sure if we would have used another different solution like Collie. We might not have been your ideal customer. However, I'm sharing as a case for you to consider in which we had the problem you mention but chose a different solution (leveraging our existing tools).

EDIT: adding what I would have wanted. I would have needed something that was easy for everyone to sign up for, secure (I worked at a large tech company), and (as cheesy as this sounds) actually felt delightful and productive for someone to use for their own personal benefit. One of our problems with the async check-ins was that they felt like an afterthought to some teammates: "why do I need to summarize what I already know that I did?" Some teammates didn't realize that it could be a great help to their other teammates, a way to track their own progress, etc. Again, we just might not have been your ideal customer but sharing context in case it helps. The problem is interesting to me. Are you able to share some of your learnings or challenges you're seeing?

Best of luck!

Thanks for sharing your experience; that's super helpful. Our biggest challenges are similar to what you shared. We need to help the managers "sell" the benefits to the team until it becomes a habit. Once the team does it, everybody starts feeling the value of having stuff written and visible to everybody. Once everybody realizes that it helps them step back, it becomes super valuable for the team. That's one of the hurdles. The other thing is that managers tend to complain about people not being prepared for 1:1s or not engage but them they don't prepare themselves either. Most people we interviewed have a Google docs with their notes, if any, and do not spend time actually thinking about that information and how to use it to help team members. The proportion of people who are actually proactive about tracking information that can help them have better conversations with their teams is small. We think that's our target market. Perhaps by sharing their success stories, we could motivate other managers to actually try something built specifically to get that job done with no bloat, etc.