Generate progress reports, without meetings
Setup automated check-ins with questions like "What are your goals for this week?" on a regular schedule. Your team receives the questions, shares their updates, and stays accountable without being micromanaged.
Dates on the left, people who have answered in green and unaswered people in red
How does it help me?
It saves you time from having to ask for status updates. By getting everything written down, it increases accountability and keeps the whole team on the same page.
Progress Updates is a simple way to automate team status updates on a regular basis. Your team gets the check-in questions and can update you without having to schedule a meeting with you.
People share their updates, and the summary is viewable to everyone
Your team members will appreciate starting their day/week seeing everyone else’s accomplishments and goals, and ending it with sharing their own.
Because everything is written down, and you are collecting all the answers online, you can read up on all the replies at your own time. There is no micromanagement. The focus is only on getting your team members to share updates to your prompts regularly.
| Question |
Answer on December 16 - December 22, 2024
Previous week
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Answer on December 23 - December 29, 2024
Current week
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|---|---|---|
| What did you get done this week? |
- Launched our Winter email campaign to 50,000 leads - Conducted virtual demos of home workouts to corporate |
- Successfully resolved email deliverability issues - Migrated to a new ESP - back to 96% delivery rate - Launched first wave of Black Friday landing page |
| Anything blocking your progress? |
- Our email deliverability rate dropped by 15% - IT team is investigating but no resolution yet |
None this week. Email issues sorted! |
| What are your top priorities for next week? |
- Resolve email deliverability issues with IT team - Start A/B testing variations for Black Friday |
- Scale up Black Friday ad spends based on A/B tests - Begin outreach to fitness influencers - Develop retention strategy for Black Friday |
Progress Updates that show the full picture. Comparing previous week versus current week.
How it works
Add your team
Invite your whole team by adding anyone you want to send questions to.
Create questionnaire
Create your first question. Select frequency, date and time to send it out.
Select time
Customize the frequency: Daily, weekly, monthly
View answers
Easily view all the answers, and click on any person to see their detailed replies.
Stay on track and check in with everyone
- No app to install Your team can reply to questions without creating an account. Each co-worker you add can reply to questions without logging in or having to remember a username/password.
- Send any question You can schedule any questions you want. From standup related ones like - 'What did you get done today?' or 'What did you accomplish last week?', to team ice-breaker questions like 'Any intersting books you read last month?' to anything you can think of.
- Customize schedule You can schedule questions to go out to your team every day, once a week, or on the first day (Mon/Tue/Wed etc) of a month - e.g. on the first Monday’s of every month, you can schedule the question: "What's the one thing you were proud of last month?”, and it will automatically go out on the first Monday of every month to your whole team.
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Spot problems instantly with AI Each day's updates are analyzed and blockers are highlighted, making it easy for managers to quickly identify where their team needs support.
- Add follow-up questions You can ask multiple questions - a main question, with follow-up questions below it, to get more context in the answers.
Why am I building this?
Hey there— I'm Arjun, and I built Progress Updates because I was tired of having my best work interrupted by status meetings.
You know how it goes. You're deep in the zone, writing code, solving problems, when suddenly your calendar reminder pops up: "Daily Standup in 15 minutes." Your flow state shatters. You context switch. And for what? To wait for everyone to join the Zoom call, to listen to updates that could have been written down, to watch the minutes tick by as a 15-minute meeting stretches into 30.
I lived this reality at my previous job. We had team members spread across time zones, which meant someone was always taking a meeting at an awkward hour. Sometimes I'd be right in the middle of solving a complex problem at 11:30 AM when I'd have to stop everything to report on my progress. It was maddening.
But then I experienced something different. At my next job, we tried something radical: no synchronous status meetings. Instead, we'd write our updates three times a week, whenever it made sense in our day. The founder would read them when it worked for her. Nobody's flow got interrupted. Nobody had to wake up at 6 AM to accommodate another time zone.
The surprising thing? Our team communication actually improved. Writing updates made me more thoughtful about my work. I could take time to properly explain complex problems. Team members could read and respond when they were ready to focus on it. And we had a searchable record of our progress and decisions.
That's why I built Progress Updates. It's a simple tool that automates these check-ins. You set the questions you want to ask and how often you want to ask them. Your team responds when it makes sense in their day. No apps to install, no passwords to remember, no meetings to schedule.
Just clear, thoughtful communication that respects everyone's time and focus.
If you've ever felt that there must be a better way to keep your team aligned without constant meetings, you're right. There is. And I built it for teams like yours.
Would love to hear what you think.
Arjun Rajkumar
Founder, Progress Updates
Email: arjun@getprogressupdates.com
