Maxium gives you real-time insights on your engineering team by categorising code changes and estimating the effort required to put them together as a function of their actual context. Gain insights on your engineering team today!
Hello Product Hunters! Thanks for stopping by and being a part of our Maxium launch! 🚀
🤔 The problem
Developer measurement and insights sucks, period. Anyone who have been in an engineering team knows that LOC and number of commits as a measure of engineering effort is broken. Story points, DORA and Space metrics are deterministic and a subpar way of “gauging” engineering resources. And they are not designed for contractors.
However, engineers today are being measured and evaluated as so. This leads to a highly dysfunctional culture of “gameing” the metrics, over/underestimation of tasks and dreadful “alignment meetings and check-ins”. For leaders, this results in poor control and understanding of engineering resources, timelines, suboptimal development cycles and high turnovers.
🧠 Solution
Maxium is an engineering intelligence tool. We've built a model that measures and scores each pull request as a function of the context of the code change itself (end-to-end development effort). Maxium aggregates these scores and data to generate actionable insights, in real-time for your engineering team. Gain insights on what development areas are being worked on or how impactful an engineers work is on the broader team. With Maxium, you can now have a complete understanding on your development progress, bottlenecks and take actions on them. Say bye to alignment meetings and guesstimates. Gain 100% clarity on your engineering effort today!
We will love to hear any thoughts or feedback! Sign-in now and get immediate insights on past PRs and engineering work in 1-click. Please leave a comment, share your thoughts, ask questions or connect with us directly at founders@maxium.ai and let’s chat!
Let’s build a more equitable and fairer way to measure + manage your engineering team, together🚀
@a_zelenkov Thanks Alexander!
Love for you to try it out in your teams and let us know what you think. Takes ~ 1min to onboard and doesn't affect your dev workflow (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). We speak to all our users right now so looking forward to chatting soon!
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@solodnev Thanks Stepan!
If you are running an engineering team or are part of one that could find Maxium interesting, do try us out! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). Love to hear your thoughts!:)
Maxium AI tackles the frustration of traditional engineering metrics by providing real-time insights based on code context. This means you can finally ditch those endless alignment meetings and focus on what truly matters—understanding your team's progress and bottlenecks. Excited to see how it transforms developer efficiency!
@awesomeyang Exactly! We want to cut down repetitive alignment meetings (that we all hate) so engineers and engineering managers can focus on building and making actions that are driven by accurate, reliable metrics.
If you are running an engineering team or are part of one that could find Maxium interesting, do try us out! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...).
Takes about ~1mins to sign-in and runs in the background so it doesn't affect your daily workflow.
@tanyaarusso Thanks a lot Tanya! The taxonomy can be customised to whatever you deem is more appropriate. However, we encourage you to use the general one we designed to be able to be able to see compare your performance against peers in a standardised way.
Congrats on the launch, @kenz0! The idea of moving beyond traditional metrics like LOC and commits is revolutionary. Real-time insights on engineering effort can truly optimize workflows. Any plans to integrate with tools like Jira or Trello to provide a more comprehensive view of project management? Looking forward to seeing how Maxium evolves.
Congrats on launching Maxium! The context-based scoring for pull requests is a game-changer for engineering teams. It’s refreshing to see a focus on meaningful metrics. Can you share more about how Maxium identifies bottlenecks and what kind of actionable steps it suggests to resolve them?
@kenz0
Hey Ken,
How does Maxium AI handle different types of code changes, like refactoring versus new feature development?
Do you see any challenges in getting buy-in from engineering teams that are used to the older metrics?
Congrats on the launch!
@kyrylosilin Maxium does this by weighing the effort needed for either based on the actual code change/written itself.
With regards to challenges, for sure. But with how inaccurate older metrics are in measuring and improving, most teams we speak to have either abandon it or are tracking it BUT not finding it very useful. That's where we come in.
Maxium AI (Beta) is a powerful tool for streamlining the developer experience that goes far beyond just counting lines of code. Get valuable insights into your team's performance and improve their performance today!
@bob_gregor And thanks Bob for always being there for us! Your support has been super helpful for us in our journey thus far and I hope we can continue getting it as well:) Appreciate you!
Hi Product Hunters 👋👋,
First and foremost, we want to thank all of you for your support of our launch. We managed to achieve #4 Product Of The Day with 543 upvotes. We couldn’t have done it without you ❤️🚀
🔨 We build Maxium to change the way engineering teams are run and how engineers are measured. Current measures such as lines of code or number of commits misrepresent engineering efforts to managers and affect engineers themselves who end up optimizing for poorly designed metrics, punishing those that do actual work. In the long run, this results in project delays, a poor understanding of the engineering team, and low morale for engineers.
🧠 Maxium is a new way of measuring, managing, and in turn generating insights for your engineering team. By measuring end-to-end effort of a code change in a PR and being easy to onboard, Maxium is currently the preferred way to look into engineering metrics and gain insights into dev cycle for many engineering teams, eliminating time-consuming sync-ups. For commercial leaders, this gives them a data-driven, less technical way to gain insights into their engineering teams, resources + projects, and product development stages.
Beta sign-ups will be closed off in a week as we focus on talking and learning from beta users in the coming weeks. Sign in now to get access to the beta :)
🌟 We would love for you to try it out (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...). Speak soon! (Takes ~1min to onboard)
Hey Ken! This sounds like a much-needed tool for dev teams. Quick question - can it integrate with existing project management tools like Jira or Trello? And does it provide any specific metrics for contractor work? Good luck on the launch.
@alexanderwilliamhawkins Hi Alex! Right now you can integrate it with Github as an app and it will be a couple of clicks to do so. In the near-term, as we craft the next generation tool to manage your engineering team, we will integrate seamlessly with other platforms and tools across your project management stack to unlock more insights.
Github app link: https://github.com/apps/maxium-bot
It's great to see such an innovative approach to measuring developer efficiency .I’m interested to know in how this tool handles diverse tech stacks. Is the evaluation mechanism adaptable for various programming languages?
@has__san Yes Hassan! Maxium is tech stack agnostic and evaluates across programming languages.
If you are running an engineering team or are part of one that could find Maxium interesting, love to hear your thoughts of trying it out! (https://github.com/apps/maxium-b...).
Congrats on the launch! Maxium AI Beta’s automation features seem powerful. How customizable are the workflows, and can they adapt to various industries? 🔧 @kenz0
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