First Impressions and Onboarding
Upon visiting the site, I was greeted with a clean landing page that immediately communicates the core promise: “AI Project Manager for Slack.” The headline asks, “What did you get done this week?”—a question I hear myself repeating every Monday morning. The onboarding is refreshingly lean. Clicking “Add to Slack” took me through a standard OAuth flow—authorize the app, choose a channel, and within 30 seconds the bot was live. No credit card required for the free tier. I tested the basic workflow by creating a simple standup: selected participants, wrote two questions—'What did you work on yesterday?' and 'Any blockers?'—and set it to run daily at 9 AM. The bot auto-posted the questions to the channel and collected responses without any hiccups.
Core Features and Workflows
HowsThisGoing is far more than a standup bot. It calls itself an “AI project manager,” and for good reason. The dashboard shows three key activity streams: successful workflows, responses received, and summaries generated. What sets it apart is the ability to ask ad-hoc questions—just type “Ask Anything” in Slack and the AI pulls data from standup responses and connected integrations. I connected my GitHub repository and asked, “Which PRs are still open from the frontend team?” The bot returned a concise list with links, saving me from tab-switching. The AI summaries can be customized in tone and length, which is handy for managers who need to forward statuses to leadership. Currently, GitHub is the only deep integration, with HubSpot, Jira, Notion, and Linear listed as “Coming Soon.” The “Ask Anything” feature is limited to 50 queries per month on the Ultimate plan; on Basic, it’s not available at all. That’s a notable limitation for power users.
Pricing and Value Proposition
The pricing is straightforward and transparent. The Basic plan costs $30/month (or $240/year) and includes unlimited workflows and participants, daily AI summaries, Slack integration, channel/thread reports, file uploads (up to 5 GB), and dashboard analytics. The Ultimate plan costs $50/month (or $400/year) and adds unlimited weekly/monthly AI summaries, 50 “Ask Anything” queries per month, GitHub integration, priority support, and promises for HubSpot/Jira/Notion. For teams that only need basic standups, Basic is sufficient. But if you want the AI to answer cross-tool questions, you’ll need Ultimate. Compared to competitors like Geekbot or Standuply, HowsThisGoing offers a more modern, conversational interface but lags behind in integration maturity—both rivals already support Jira and Asana natively. The value proposition is clear: if your team lives in Slack and uses GitHub, this tool eliminates the need for separate standup apps.
Final Verdict
HowsThisGoing is a strong contender for small to mid-sized engineering and product teams that want to reduce status meetings and get real-time visibility into work. Its strengths are ease of use, customizable workflows, and the “Ask Anything” AI feature. However, the limited integrations (only GitHub for now) and the capped AI queries on the Ultimate plan are real drawbacks. Teams heavily reliant on Jira or Asana should wait for those integrations or look elsewhere. For a founder-built tool that listens to user feedback—the creator, Kanishk Razdan, is actively booking calls—this has the potential to grow quickly. I recommend starting with the free tier to test the basic standup flow. If your team finds value, the $30 Basic plan is a fair entry point. Visit HowsThisGoing at https://howsthisgoing.com/ to explore it yourself.
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