Tasks you can give devboxes
Every task works from Slack, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams or your issue tracker.
Start with a goal
- Answer customers faster Drafts replies to customer emails and reviews, writes help pages, tells you what customers keep asking for, and prepares renewal calls.
- Fix what customers report Turns customer reports into issues with the cause found, reproduces bugs, fixes them with a test and tells you when the fix ships.
- Get answers about your product Answers how your product behaves, who can do what and why something happened, from your code and your docs.
- Win more customers Researches companies before your calls, finds new prospects, drafts follow-ups and proposals, and coaches you on your sales calls.
- Get found online Audits your website, plans articles people find in search, writes your landing page and drafts your social posts.
- Launch something new Tests the idea, researches the market, writes the spec and the landing page, and announces it.
- Plan what to build Scopes requests into issues, adds acceptance criteria, sizes the work and splits big features, based on how your product works today.
- Make small product changes Changes wording, price labels, plan limits and exports in your product as reviewed pull requests that your developers merge.
- Ship from issues Turns issues into reviewed pull requests, fixes production errors, adds tests, updates dependencies and writes release notes.
- Keep your team informed Summarizes the stand-up, follows up on meetings and writes the weekly team and monthly investor updates.
- Run client work Welcomes new clients, writes their monthly reports, follows up after meetings and chases unpaid invoices.
- Run your shop Writes product descriptions, answers reviews and customer emails, and plans your posts.
- Cut admin Finds savings in your software bills, compares tools before you buy, chases invoices, writes job posts and onboarding checklists, and turns your to-dos into issues.
Every task
Support
- Draft replies to customer emails
- Answer a customer question from your website
- Reply to customer reviews
- Write a help page
- Find what customers keep asking for
- Turn a customer report into an issue
- Check whether a customer's problem is a known bug
- Explain an error message a customer sees
- Check whether a fix has shipped
- Find out whether your product already does something
- Prepare for a customer's renewal call
Sales
Marketing
Product
- Turn an idea into a spec
- Summarize customer interviews
- Stress-test a product idea
- Check how a feature behaves before you promise it
- Scope a feature request into an issue
- Add acceptance criteria to an issue
- Split a large feature into smaller issues
- Size a request before planning
- Compare two ways to build a feature
- Find backlog issues that are already done
- Explain what a change means for customers
- Correct a misleading label or help text
- Make a confusing price label clear
- Change a plan limit or a default
Team
Operations
- Write an onboarding checklist
- Write a job post
- Compare tools before you buy
- Cut your software costs
- Chase an overdue invoice
- Welcome a new client
- Write a client's monthly report
- Update your company address on every document
- Find out what a scheduled job does
- Write a runbook for a task your team rarely does
- File a list of tasks as tracked issues
- Check who can do something in your product
- Find out why a customer might not have got an invoice
- Check that your product follows a rule from your accountant
- Change the default payment terms
- Add a column to a finance export
- Change the wording of a customer email
Founders
Engineering
- Reproduce a bug report
- Turn an issue into a pull request
- Fix a production error
- Update dependencies
- Write release notes
- Clear the small tickets in your backlog
- Review a teammate's change before it ships
- Add tests before anyone touches old code
- Find out why a test fails only sometimes
- Delete dead code
- Document a part of your code
- Find where something is decided in your code
- Add logging around a failure you can't reproduce
No task matches these filters.
Ask for anything else
Mention @devboxes with any task in your own words. devboxes asks you when something is unclear.