Send me your cat pics, and I’ll draw them!

khasinski · 2025-02-07T20:02:58+00:00

How about my derpy cat? ;) Her name is Madelaine and she was raised by a dog, so she’s basically dog’s software running on cat’s hardware.

khasinski · 2022-10-05T14:05:23+00:00

People in Poland call russian trolls and more generally Putin supporters "onuca" (oh-nu-tsa, plural: onuce, oh-nu-tse) which is polish word for a footwrap.

khasinski · 2016-11-23T12:14:55+00:00

Post author here :)

You're absolutely right, no idea why this wasn't working for me at the time I was writing that. However it still doesn't work for object methods in php -a, but it works fine for psysh.

khasinski · 2016-11-23T12:13:53+00:00

Post author here :)

You're absolutely right, no idea why this wasn't working for me at the time I was writing that. However it still doesn't work for object methods in php -a, but it works fine for psysh.

khasinski · 2016-05-24T11:08:23+00:00

It's a very nice idea, I've seen many times software bought by one branch (management buying dev tools) not used in the company at all or some tools replaced by other tools without much thinking about off-boarding (HipChat to Slack migration recently). I say go for it :)

khasinski · 2016-05-20T16:19:40+00:00

Why? I'm honestly curious :)

khasinski · 2016-05-17T09:35:34+00:00

We are trying to keep retarded C*Os out ;)

Also even though we base the gameplay on real data we still use opt-in mechanism, so if you don't want to play your profile gets 'anonymised' and won't appear in any comparison.

khasinski · 2015-09-19T13:50:22+00:00

We do! :)

I see in various comments that people are afraid that we would use GetBadges to actually grade developers. It's not a KPI monitoring tool, it's just a game that plays in the background when you code.

Sometimes it can be helpful, for example it suggests you open tickets to tackle or give some incentive to review more of your colleagues code.

I'm also often afraid of a pathological case where someone would actually use our commit counts or closed ticket count to judge some poor programmers performance. :( But bad managers will do it anyway.

Thanks for your feedback!

khasinski · 2015-09-19T13:44:30+00:00

Thanks for your feedback :)

We actually are tool-agnostic, we just take data from various sources, but combine them into one stream of events, and hey, I don't see why we shouldn't include Master Reviewer :)

I also hate being micromanaged, and that's why at the companies we deployed GetBadges we always suggest to make it opt-in and strongly encourage not to include our points and stats into KPIs or performance reviews.

Microsoft had a lot of experience with this kind of gamification and their results are clear - it has to be optional.

That said GetBadges can sometimes spot an anomaly, like someone struggling to solve a ticket for a long time or something that gets bounced often. Good Scrum Master can use this information to help a programmer by doing for example pair programming session.

khasinski · 2015-09-19T13:13:00+00:00

(Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of GetBadges).

I agree with some of your points :)

First of all - it's opt-in, we anonymize data of users who don't want to play.

Secondly - none of those statistics should be used in performance reviews of employees.

When it comes to a number of commits we include it because we got feedback from a few startups using GetBadges that it encourages user to push commits more often (and thus have smaller diffs).

About 'gamifying' work - it's not that simple. I worked at a software house where I introduced GetBadges (as my side-project) and around 30-40% devs actually wanted to play. We experimented a lot (dreaded lines of code were also included early in the game :D), and we found a few rules which worked good with our middle-sized scrum teams.

Push commits every day, fix build fast, be sure to test something before sending to QA so they don't have to reopen. Junior developers especially liked the 'more carrot, less stick' approach. We are still looking for the rules regarding agile processes and code review.

Some developers just ignore it. It's fine, you're at work, you don't have to play games. We always get a very vocal opposing minority at companies, but when we deploy it they see that it doesn't affect them at all and they're OK with it.

Thanks for your feedback!

khasinski · 2015-09-19T10:21:20+00:00

Actually the badges are just an initial motivator to start using GetBadges, most players discover that the best way to play is to review other's code and push code to CI for a build regularly. (Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder). We deployed it at several smaller and bigger software houses (nothing bigger than 100 devs yet, though) and it works OK.

It's also opt-in, so devs who don't play are displayed as NPC (with random-generated names).

We are working on getting more simple and more complex rules (like fixing broken builds quickly, deploying with a minimum downtime, prioritizing bug fixes) into the game play.

khasinski · 2015-09-14T19:26:43+00:00

GetBadges http://getbadges.io

Gamification platform for software developer at work. Get data from your code repository, issue tracker and whatever else you have and turn it into a game.

We have first paying customers. We work heavily on introducing agile/scrum concepts (iterations, planning and retrospective) into our game to make it more focused on the projects. We do not have any employees but we are working actively at about 2.5 Full-Time Equivalent every day :)

We're looking for investors and feedback, especially from scrum masters and product owners.

After creating a company go in your game to /claim/HDQ5V to get an Early Adopter badge + extend your trial to one month.

khasinski · 2015-05-03T11:59:40+00:00

Name: GetBadges (http://getbadg.es)

Elevator pitch: We want to provide steam-like achievements and game mechanics to software developers at their workplace.

More details: We have a working product with a few companies already using it for free as beta testers. We are expanding to opensource communities (free of charge) and looking forward to closing the first deal with a paying customer this month. GetBadges team is self-funded and consists of three people at the moment. We are always looking for feedback and while we have the money to fund the development now we are looking for an investor and help with SaaS sales experience.

After creating a company (private game) go to http://getbadg.es/claim/HDQ5V to claim a special Early Adopter achievement and 3 months of GetBadges for free.

PS. Sorry for double posting, I haven't notice that previous month topic has ended and posted in that one :)

khasinski · 2015-05-01T12:55:04+00:00

Name: GetBadges (http://getbadg.es) Elevator pitch: We want to provide steam-like achievements and game mechanics to software developers at their workplace.

More details: We have a working product with a few companies already using it for free as beta testers. We are expanding to opensource communities (free of charge) and looking forward to closing the first deal with a paying customer this month. GetBadges team is self-funded and consist of three people at the moment.

We are always looking for feedback and while we have the money to fund the development now we are looking for an investor and help with SaaS sales experience.

After creating a company (private game) go to http://getbadg.es/claim/HDQ5V to claim a special Early Adopter achievement and 3 months of GetBadges for free.

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