HowsThisGoing

HowsThisGoing is an AI chat bot tool. HowsThisGoing was a Slack standup bot that collected daily updates and produced daily, weekly and monthly shipped-work summaries, with GitHub integration and plain English querying of past standups. It is shutting down as of September 29, 2026, the bot has been removed from all workspaces, and existing data is retained on request.

HowsThisGoing was a Slack standup bot built by a solo developer, Kanishk, who wanted to answer a personal question: could one person build a product from scratch and get paid for it? The answer came in the form of a tool that asked team members a short set of questions each day, collected their replies inside Slack, and turned the accumulated answers into something a team could actually read. It was, according to its author, the first standup bot to also connect to GitHub, letting summaries reflect shipped work as well as what people said in their updates. The product generated daily, weekly and monthly summaries of what a team shipped. It also supported plain English questions about what people had written in their standups, powered by an embeddings and retrieval system built from scratch rather than assembled from an off the shelf framework. That combination is what made it different from a simple reminder bot: the value was meant to sit in the archived record and in the ability to query it later, not in the act of asking three questions a day. In practice the workflow was Slack native. A workspace installed the bot, it prompted members for updates on a schedule, and replies stayed in the channel where the team already worked. No separate dashboard or app needed to be opened. The intended audience was small to mid sized engineering teams that wanted lightweight status reporting and a searchable history of what changed, without adding another tool to the stack. The author notes that one team ran its standups on the tool every day for more than two years. That history now has a closing date. HowsThisGoing is shutting down as of September 29, 2026. Standups have stopped and the bot has been removed from every Slack workspace where it was installed. Existing data has not been deleted, and users who want a copy can email the founder directly. The founder has been candid that the product was not a commercial success, and that a bot asking three questions daily is no longer enough to compete. Anyone evaluating standup tools today should treat this as a discontinued option and look at active alternatives in the same space.