Show HN: Storygenie, a Tool for Better Stories

Show HN: Storygenie, a Tool for Better Stories(storygenie.io)

14 points by thraizz 3 years ago | 2 comments

Hi HN, I'm Aron, I'm 26 and a software engineer working with different scrum teams for 6 years. I really enjoy working with the scrum process, however, most product owners care relatively less if stories are well written and have no problems refining them over and over again. That's where I saw potential: I built (yet another, I have to say regarding shownew) a website that uses the OpenAI API to generate scrum stories based on a project description and a short idea description. It works fairly well, but I would love to hear feedback from others than co-employees, and this is the only place I know to get some valuable early feedback.

The website does not require any sign up, has no paid model, and I am really doing this "advertisement" only to get some feedback of any kind. The landing page is https://storygenie.io, the app itself is also directly accessible in a demo format under https://app.storygenie.io/demo :)

Thank you for any feedback and greetings from Germany! Aron

jskulski 3 years ago |

Interesting idea and good execution.

My thought would be it feels like it is helps enable “careless” PMs, rather than make better stories.

I added a simple user story “I want to be able to check our prices against competitor prices”

Imo, a reasonable and simple business ask, but technically complicated (dirty and old data, low user fault tolerance, heuristically matching).

In chatGPT fashion, it confidently provides a series of acceptance criteria that fills out the story, but is either questionable or redundant.

“The tool should be able to compare prices of our products against our competitors' prices. The tool should be able to display the results in a clear and concise manner. The tool should be able to be accessed from the administrator dashboard. The tool should be able to be used on both desktop and mobile devices.”

A PM/team could go through and audit. It would be a useful exercise, but a team who would do that likely wouldn’t need this tool. Maybe consider fashioning the UI to idea generation?

As it is now, this feels like a careless PM would copy and paste this without checking.

thraizz 3 years ago | |

Valid point, I received this feedback on reddit as well.

I really want to focus the tool on generating good stories though - I had the idea that to validate input better and give feedback, before actually generating stories. E.g., try to suggest something like „Hey, this is too broad and should be an epic, with possibly these 4 stories“, „Hey, your description was too shallow, can you elaborate on xyz?“. Ultimately, it’s a tool that I want to see used for scrum stories in my teams.

I will update the roadmap with these ideas and inputs, thank you for taking your time and leave a comment!