Every dev team, Telegram group, and tech-curious friend circle has the same problem: someone drops a great GitHub repo or Product Hunt launch in the chat, everyone says "interesting!", and then it's buried under 40 messages before anyone tries it.
SquadPicks now has a dedicated Tech pick type — built exactly for this. Drop a Product Hunt link, a GitHub repo, a TechCrunch article, or a new tool you want your squad to evaluate. Everyone votes on whether they want to try it, have already used it, or aren't interested. Decisions get made.
The problem with tech links in group chats
Tech folk are some of the worst offenders when it comes to link-dropping without follow-through. In any active dev group chat you'll find:
- 5 Product Hunt links from Monday that nobody revisited
- A GitHub repo with 12k stars that "we should definitely check out"
- A TechCrunch article about a competitor someone meant to discuss
- A new AI tool that three people individually discovered and each shared at different times
The links aren't the problem — the lack of a decision mechanism is. SquadPicks solves this by turning any link into a vote card that persists and accumulates squad opinion over time.
What you can add as a Tech pick
SquadPicks automatically detects Tech-type links from:
- Product Hunt — product launches, upvote-worthy tools
- GitHub — repos, projects, libraries your squad should explore
- TechCrunch, The Verge, Wired, Ars Technica — articles worth discussing
- Hacker News — threads, Ask HNs, Show HNs
- Any link you manually categorise as Tech
How squads actually use it
The startup team evaluating tools
Rahul's five-person startup in Bangalore has a SquadPicks group for internal tools research. Every time someone finds a new project management tool, AI writing assistant, or developer productivity app, they add it as a Tech pick. The team votes: "Tried it / Want to try / Not for me." At their Monday standup, they review picks that everyone wants to try and actually decide whether to adopt something.
The tech friend group that shares everything
Ananya's college friends group — all engineers at different companies — use SquadPicks to share anything tech-interesting they come across in the week. GitHub repos, newsletter articles, new frameworks. The group picks with the most "want" votes become the topic for their Friday evening call. The ones that everyone skips get quietly buried without inbox-polluting threads.
Tech + the Telegram bot
If your squad already communicates on Telegram, the SquadPicks bot works seamlessly. Paste a GitHub URL or Product Hunt link in your group — the bot detects it as Tech, creates a vote card, and everyone can tap to vote without leaving the chat.
The bot also lets you change the type of any pick. If you paste a general article and want it categorised as Tech, tap Change Type on the pick card and select 💻 Tech from the picker.
Why we added Tech as a pick type
SquadPicks was built for friend squads to make group decisions about what to watch, eat, or do. But we started seeing teams use it to discuss tools and products. The "want to try / not for me" vote structure maps perfectly onto tool evaluation. "Tried it" = you've used it and can report back. "Want to try" = interested, put it on the radar. "Not for me" = not relevant to your work.
We made it a first-class type so the experience is intentional — not a hack. Tech picks get the right emoji, the right vote labels, and automatic detection for the major tech link sources.
Other types your team might use
While Tech is the newest type, existing squads use SquadPicks for much more:
- 🗳️ Politics — track news articles and opinion pieces for group debate
- 🏠 Home/Rental — evaluate flat options when the squad is house-hunting together
- 🎬 Movies / 📺 Shows — the classic squad watchlist
- 🍽 Restaurants — for when the Friday team lunch debate gets out of hand
One bot, one web app, every kind of decision. That's SquadPicks.