Also, one thing you could do that might be interesting: add the ability to set up or manage teams. That way it can be used for team retrospectives, just as Slack is now used for standups.
Perhaps tie it into Github (using organisations and/or repos as the basic units of projects, similar to how waffle.io does to give an agile view of projects.
Thanks for your feedback and ideas. We're certainly keen to add more features to the tool, qualitative feedback is definitely something put on the todo list.
How would you go about recording this? Freetext? Some kind of structured list of postive and nagative points?
Generally in most retrospectives, it's a collection of post-it notes which are put into positive, neutral and negative stacks. So, yeah, simple bullet point lists of positives, neutrals and negatives.
That said, it depends on how you intend for this to be used: is it just for personal monitoring, in which case you probably want it as simple and seamless as possible (and free text notes might be just the thing).
If it is for teams, eventually you probably want more structure.
It seems there is a lot of hunger for a tool like this that can be used in team mode.
With regards to recording positives/neutrals/negatives - I like this thinking. This could be something that the user could record at any point in time during the week, knowing that it is safely stored (and remembered) for their next upcoming retrospective. I always remember getting ready for retrospectives and retrospectively struggling to recall what really annoyed and pleased me. To try and counter this we put a 'box of emotions' in the middle of each workspace where anyone could put a sticky note when they felt something that they wanted to record for retrospective!
Also, one thing you could do that might be interesting: add the ability to set up or manage teams. That way it can be used for team retrospectives, just as Slack is now used for standups.
Perhaps tie it into Github (using organisations and/or repos as the basic units of projects, similar to how waffle.io does to give an agile view of projects.
Interesting idea though.