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This is a live review of Friday.app, a potential digital workplace for your organization. It’s part of a series where we review products which can function as a new digital HQ for your organization.
Reviewers:
- Vijay Anand of The Startup Centre
- Neil Miller of The Digital Workplace
What is Friday?
Friday calls itself a home for your work. We had the founder and CEO, Luke Thomas, on the podcast recently to talk about the product.
Friday is trying to be the closest thing to a homepage as we’ve seen. It’s not trying to offer all the functionality you need to do all your work, but it is trying to cover the core elements of work. Luke talks about the smallest possible “objects” of work: a conversation, a goal, an event, a task. There’s no road to singularity here. These are distinct parts of work that need to be handled differently.
Friday’s core modules are
- A customizable home page with widgets to view your calendar, tasks for the day, posts, goals, ice breakers, kudos, milestones, and more
- A directory of everyone on the team (including a map)
- A goal tracking system
- Asynchronous discussions as posts
- An asynchronous check-in tool
- A place for a durable company handbook
In short, Friday is trying to create everything you need before you dive into work, and then also a place to come back after you’ve finished.
What’s our take on Friday?
Vijay
This is a well-thought out product. It’s been carefully made, and the execution is really well done.
Friday is not going to be a WorkOS or a complete digital workplace because it doesn’t have the core work tools. But it is a very compelling work hub, meaning that it’s a single place where the whole team can align on goals, broad communication, and reporting on individual activity.
My favorite features are the check ins, the goals, and the planner. The check in feature really stands out.
Friday seems like a great tool for a smaller, high-performance team that wants to keep a good culture going. Once you get beyond 300 people, it’s hard to see exactly how this scales right now. They can figure it out, but it’s unclear right now.
Neil
There’s a lot to love about Friday. I love the customizable home page. Everyone on a team is going to want something different, and it gives people agency over what they see when they start.
I also loved the status updates. It’s a very streamlined and easy way for everyone to stay informed and makes your meetings much more effective.
It feels like it was built by a distributed team that was trying to solve their own problems and has done that well. The special widgets are really exciting and much unlike anything other product offer. I’m excited to see what they do next with this.
It’s also exciting to see a tool that doesn’t try to turn everything into a chat message (like Slack), or a task (like Clickup), but takes a fresh approach to the different parts of work.
Friday.app pricing
Check their pricing page for the latest info. As of recording, Friday has a free version. The version we tested starts at $6/user/month for an annual plan.
Live Friday.app review
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This is a live review of Friday.app, a potential digital workplace for your organization. It’s part of a series where we review products which can function as a new digital HQ for your organization.
Reviewers:
- Vijay Anand of The Startup Centre
- Neil Miller of The Digital Workplace
What is Friday?
Friday calls itself a home for your work. We had the founder and CEO, Luke Thomas, on the podcast recently to talk about the product.
Friday is trying to be the closest thing to a homepage as we’ve seen. It’s not trying to offer all the functionality you need to do all your work, but it is trying to cover the core elements of work. Luke talks about the smallest possible “objects” of work: a conversation, a goal, an event, a task. There’s no road to singularity here. These are distinct parts of work that need to be handled differently.
Friday’s core modules are
- A customizable home page with widgets to view your calendar, tasks for the day, posts, goals, ice breakers, kudos, milestones, and more
- A directory of everyone on the team (including a map)
- A goal tracking system
- Asynchronous discussions as posts
- An asynchronous check-in tool
- A place for a durable company handbook
In short, Friday is trying to create everything you need before you dive into work, and then also a place to come back after you’ve finished.
What’s our take on Friday?
Vijay
This is a well-thought out product. It’s been carefully made, and the execution is really well done.
Friday is not going to be a WorkOS or a complete digital workplace because it doesn’t have the core work tools. But it is a very compelling work hub, meaning that it’s a single place where the whole team can align on goals, broad communication, and reporting on individual activity.
My favorite features are the check ins, the goals, and the planner. The check in feature really stands out.
Friday seems like a great tool for a smaller, high-performance team that wants to keep a good culture going. Once you get beyond 300 people, it’s hard to see exactly how this scales right now. They can figure it out, but it’s unclear right now.
Neil
There’s a lot to love about Friday. I love the customizable home page. Everyone on a team is going to want something different, and it gives people agency over what they see when they start.
I also loved the status updates. It’s a very streamlined and easy way for everyone to stay informed and makes your meetings much more effective.
It feels like it was built by a distributed team that was trying to solve their own problems and has done that well. The special widgets are really exciting and much unlike anything other product offer. I’m excited to see what they do next with this.
It’s also exciting to see a tool that doesn’t try to turn everything into a chat message (like Slack), or a task (like Clickup), but takes a fresh approach to the different parts of work.
Friday.app pricing
Check their pricing page for the latest info. As of recording, Friday has a free version. The version we tested starts at $6/user/month for an annual plan.
Live Friday.app review
Other reviews
Clickup review
Kintone review
Qatalog review
Swit review
Twist review
