Tools for daily standups when half your team doesn’t use Slack?

I’m a solo developer working with a couple of freelance collaborators across different time zones one in the Philippines, one in Eastern Europe, and me in India.

The biggest problem wasn’t coding. It was simply knowing what everyone finished without messaging people at odd hours.

I tried a few async standup tools like Geekbot, Standuply, and DailyBot. But almost all of them assume your team already lives in Slack or Teams.

We don’t.

Most of our communication is just email, occasional Google Meet calls, and sometimes WhatsApp. Setting up Slack only for standups felt unnecessary.

So we tried simpler options:

• Shared Google Doc → nobody updated it consistently
• Email thread → became messy very quickly
• WhatsApp group → updates got buried within hours

At some point I started wondering:

How are small remote teams actually handling async check-ins if they’re not using Slack?

Are people skipping standups completely?
Or is there a simpler tool that already solves this?

I asked a few other founders and small distributed teams, and surprisingly many of them had the same issue. They wanted lightweight async standups, but didn’t want another Slack-based tool.

So I made a very small landing page to test whether this is a real problem or just something happening in my circle.

If this sounds familiar, I’d genuinely love to hear how your team handles updates today. And if you want to see the idea or join the early list, feel free to comment or DM me.