Could you explain why so many people hate stand-ups? In my current and previous jobs we spend around 1 hour once a week discussing what each person is working on, usually with some quick side chats about small issues we run into.
I've always experienced these as quite useful and never hear too much complaining about it.
How do the other apps compare to Boost. I was too lazy to try anything else and just switched from Boost for Reddit to Boost for Lemmy when they killed the API.