jtarchie / helloretro

Host the retro for your team, remotely.

HelloRetro

Site: https://helloretro.app

What is a Retro?

The retrospective is a meeting to discuss a situation's successes and failures. A retro is meant to be constructive. There's an opportunity to present issues, discuss them, and provide steps for action.

It is not for complaining and commiserating.

There are different formats for a retro. They assist in having patterns for starting, navigating, and concluding a discussion.

HelloRetro supports the "Happy, Meh, Sad" / "Mad, Sad, Glad" pattern. It stems from answering the questions:

• Happy: What went well?
• Sad: What was disappointing?
• Mad: What didn't go well?

Features

• Easily create a retrospective to share with your team
• Add/edit retro items
• Vote on retro items
• Discussion timer (unopinionated)
• Realtime updates (using SSE)
• Built with accessability in mind
• Self hosted (no external database required)

Motivation

This is a retrospective board built in similar style of Refacto and Postfacto.

The purpose of this rewrite was purely to use the technologies of Vite, Pocketbase, and PreactJS together. A lean application that provides the same functionality, but does not incur the same costs as being highly available. Deployed to fly.io with a persisted disk, so the application can scale down, but persist the sqlite database (provided by Pocketbase) between startups.

Development

brew bundle

yarn install
task -p build server
yarn test

helloretro's Issues

Action items column

I think the old pong app had an "action items" column (or was it in the footer?) that you could put things to take action on latter: would love if this was brought back or if there was an option for it!

export retro to markdown format

@wfernandes requested the ability to export a retro. The simplest way may be a markdown document.

For example,

# Retro for 03/19/2024

## Happy
- Releasing went well.

## Meh
- We need to share knowledge about releasing.

## Sad
- We need this retro in a different medium.

a customizable shared timer

add cors

add active state with timer