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Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

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Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

#11

how much does/will it cost?

We still haven't decided on the pricing, but the main idea we have is $19/user/month, with some volume discounts. We want to offer top notch support, and we replace a number of apps plus add a lot of value on top of them through the integration and polish. So I think that our customers will see that the value is far higher than the $19/month.

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

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post #10

Looking forward to giving this a spin! I'm curious how deeply you went for an integrated approach for projects / email / tasks / files. I find the more integration you do, the more learning users must do vs. individual applications with loose integration that are more familiar to users (that behave like those in the title). I've spent a fair amount of time trying out both personal and business team workflow in Trello…

Simplicity was one of our main goals when building Dynado. It has to be usable from day 1 not only by tech-savvy people but also by everyone else in the company.

So all the advanced features are hidden behind a simple interface.

And an example of integration between the calendar and tasks: if one of your support consultants goes on vacations, the workflow managing support tasks automatically stops assigning tasks to him so that they don't pile up while he is away.

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

#13
post #11

how much does/will it cost?

We still haven't decided on the pricing, but the main idea we have is $19/user/month, with some volume discounts. We want to offer top notch support, and we replace a number of apps plus add a lot of value on top of them through the integration and polish. So I think that our customers will see that the value is far higher than the $19/month.

Very interesting. Will we have a limited user/time free trial?!

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

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post #12
post #10

Looking forward to giving this a spin! I'm curious how deeply you went for an integrated approach for projects / email / tasks / files. I find the more integration you do, the more learning users must do vs. individual applications with loose integration that are more familiar to users (that behave like those in the title). I've spent a fair amount of time trying out both personal and business team workflow in Trello…

Simplicity was one of our main goals when building Dynado. It has to be usable from day 1 not only by tech-savvy people but also by everyone else in the company. So all the advanced features are hidden behind a simple interface. And an example of integration between the calendar and tasks: if one of your support consultants goes on vacations, the workflow managing support tasks automatically stops assigning tasks to…

Simple is good. Best of luck getting it ready for public consumption in the coming weeks! I'll be sure to post feedback when I get a chance to test drive.

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

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post #13
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We still haven't decided on the pricing, but the main idea we have is $19/user/month, with some volume discounts. We want to offer top notch support, and we replace a number of apps plus add a lot of value on top of them through the integration and polish. So I think that our customers will see that the value is far higher than the $19/month.

Very interesting. Will we have a limited user/time free trial?!

Our idea is to give a time limited trial, with unlimited users but with some storage limits.

Plus everyone will be able to cooperate with external contractors for free - you can add as many of them as you want and their accounts will be fully functional but with a few limitations.

For example instaed of sending an email to someone - you can send a task (the form is nearly the same), automatically creating a free account for that target user. This way you can keep track of the request and ping him if he forgets, store it in your project hierarchy, etc. And the recipient gets it through email and can reply only via email without even registering.

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

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post #7

Shouldn't the "Show me some screenshots" key on the keyboard at the top ... do just that? If not, why's it there?

Yes it should, we didn't hook it up yet - I couldn't sleep and just had to share it. Sorry about that, will put up some soon and mention it on our Twitter/FB.

I would suggest making that call to action bigger. I did not notice the enlarged key on the keyboard until it was pointed out here on HN. I just thought it was the usual keyboard stock art.

But otherwise this site looks great. Captured my email.

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

#18
Just looking at what's available now, this looks to me like "zoho apps meet bootstrap-like graphics". Apart from the nice look, what is your advantage over zoho's offering?

Also since you compare the service to gmail, could you tell us something about your anti spam solution? Gmail is pretty much a benchmark for results here, given the volume they process.

Considering it was created with such small team - really good work :)

PS. does that mean there's no operations team at the moment?

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

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post #16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it should, we didn't hook it up yet - I couldn't sleep and just had to share it. Sorry about that, will put up some soon and mention it on our Twitter/FB.

I would suggest making that call to action bigger. I did not notice the enlarged key on the keyboard until it was pointed out here on HN. I just thought it was the usual keyboard stock art. But otherwise this site looks great. Captured my email.

I did the exact same thing. Pretty sure I mentally checked out at that point. I didn't even pay attention to the screenshot on the screen though that's also standard at this point.

Re: Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

#20
why would you work on something for 3 years and not have any sort of beta out there. How do you know what you have is going to work or if anyone is even going to use it? It just seems crazy to work on something for this long and hide it away for 3 years. With all of the things on the internet that have changed in 3 years, how do you know your approach has not become out of date...
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