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Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by someonedan »

waxjar wrote: post #52

Is duplicating a project on the road map? We've been looking for a tool with a good interface to use as a collaborative check list. Every checklist shares the bulk of its tasks + it has a few unique tasks per project. Duplicating the tasks by hand seems cumbersome. If anyone has an alternative, it would be appreciated as well :)

Hi waxjar, thanks for your comment.

Yes, duplicating projects is something other users have asked us for and it's something we have in the pipeline. There are a lot of really great suggestions we've had in recent weeks and this is just one that you can expect to see in the run up to Christmas.

Thanks again for your suggestion,

Dan @ Someone.io

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by someonedan »

ckluis wrote: post #45

fwiw, I’m still looking for a product that does task management well with good integration/visibility of tasks within Slack.

hi ckluis, thanks for your comment

we actually do integrate with slack! You can read a how to guide right here - http://blog.someone.io/post/117160294470/integrate-slack

Dan @ Someone.io

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by jaysonelliot »

This looks awesome. But our company probably won't use it. And here's why.

Committing to a new process or software is an investment of time and trust. When we choose something to use in our group, we want to know it's going to be there in a year or two, and still doing the thing we bought it for.

Software you can purchase and install on your own servers / desktops does that. In fact, we'll choose one software package over another if it doesn't force us to submit to updates until we want them, or rely on someone else's servers to stay functional.

Browser-based tools from someone else can make it into our workflow, but only after they've been around long enough and achieved mainstream adoption, so we can be relatively sure they're unlikely to "pivot" or disappear. Google Docs and Slack are good examples of this.

When you're new and unproven, there are already a lot of hurdles to leap in order to get users, especially business users.

Making your software user-installable eliminates a huge hurdle, I would recommend it.

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by jipiboily »

ma2xd wrote: post #41

Hi guys, my name's Lasse I work at Someone.io :) We are really pleased to see such interest and enthusiasm in the product, it chimes with what we've been hearing from users since we launched our beta in May. Your feedback is very useful for us - Someone.io is still in development and we are currently in the middle of an equity crowdfunding campaign which you can see over at http://invest.someone.io . If there is anyo…

When are you going to release it for real? Unclear, given that the pricing page says "Coming this summer"...is it possibly in 11.5 months? If you don't get payments, how can we know it will still exists in a few months?

Looks neat btw!

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by jipiboily »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #63

This looks awesome. But our company probably won't use it. And here's why. Committing to a new process or software is an investment of time and trust. When we choose something to use in our group, we want to know it's going to be there in a year or two, and still doing the thing we bought it for. Software you can purchase and install on your own servers / desktops does that. In fact, we'll choose one software package…

That, or even just have an actual way to start paying now, which would already help to survive or make it feel like it would survive.

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by pc86 »

jipiboily wrote: post #64
ma2xd wrote: post #41

Hi guys, my name's Lasse I work at Someone.io :) We are really pleased to see such interest and enthusiasm in the product, it chimes with what we've been hearing from users since we launched our beta in May. Your feedback is very useful for us - Someone.io is still in development and we are currently in the middle of an equity crowdfunding campaign which you can see over at http://invest.someone.io . If there is anyo…

When are you going to release it for real? Unclear, given that the pricing page says "Coming this summer"...is it possibly in 11.5 months? If you don't get payments, how can we know it will still exists in a few months? Looks neat btw!

I came here to ask a very similar question - "this summer" means completely different things depending on where on the globe you sit, and it's even more confusing that the majority of readers have just exited the summer.

It gives the distinct impression they've already missed the promised deadline even if that's not the case.

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by jipiboily »

pc86 wrote: post #66
jipiboily wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When are you going to release it for real? Unclear, given that the pricing page says "Coming this summer"...is it possibly in 11.5 months? If you don't get payments, how can we know it will still exists in a few months? Looks neat btw!

I came here to ask a very similar question - "this summer" means completely different things depending on where on the globe you sit, and it's even more confusing that the majority of readers have just exited the summer. It gives the distinct impression they've already missed the promised deadline even if that's not the case.

Exactly!

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by Mahn »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #63

This looks awesome. But our company probably won't use it. And here's why. Committing to a new process or software is an investment of time and trust. When we choose something to use in our group, we want to know it's going to be there in a year or two, and still doing the thing we bought it for. Software you can purchase and install on your own servers / desktops does that. In fact, we'll choose one software package…

Chicken and egg problem, from the point of view of the end user it makes sense and I would have the same reaction, but then I think to myself, shouldn't we give a chance for a "Show HN" product/service to turn into a Slack or Dropbox? How do they get there otherwise? We'll never have new shiny things if we are skeptical by defaut.

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by notNow »

drdaeman wrote: post #58
notNow wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a dilemma, I can't imagine myself in your shoes. It must be nerve wrecking and life shattering!! Can't you just get a new throwaway email address and try the product and decide to keep or ditch it?

You can, but the site has to pique your interest to make you bother to do so. Usually it's easier to just close the tab.

Just do it already without drama and stop busting our balls with this non sense.

Re: Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

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Post by someonedan »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #63

This looks awesome. But our company probably won't use it. And here's why. Committing to a new process or software is an investment of time and trust. When we choose something to use in our group, we want to know it's going to be there in a year or two, and still doing the thing we bought it for. Software you can purchase and install on your own servers / desktops does that. In fact, we'll choose one software package…

Hi Jaysonelliot, thanks for the terrific comment. It's really helpful for us to get this kind of insight.

Onboarding your team to any software is a risk. Our focus on being the easiest and most engaging task manager is aimed at being the least risky. We want to remove as many of those hurdles for business users as we can through simplicity and making team members feel more interconnected.

It's easy to say Google was also once "new and unproven", but Mahn's response below is an excellent one. I guess the issue is epeople want tools they can trust which here is "only after they've been around long enough and achieved mainstream adoption". But then, Slack was launched in August 2013 with 0 users. By June 2015 they had 1M+ users and a valuation of $2.76bn. (Source: WSJ). So new entrants to this market like us can establish themselves quickly but they need to be very good at what they do and they need to earn trust.

We aim to do just that and as jipiboily points out elsewhere, a payment solution is the first step to sustainability, which we've been developing with our research partners and will be rolled out at the end of the month.

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