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Re: Show HN: I built this simple Trello clone today and launched it before lunch

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Post by kinduff »

Looks nice but it's more a kanban board rather than a Trello clone. I don't doubt you're that skilled to build something like this "before lunch", but in my experience it is highly unlikely.

A few tips:

- Add a landing page or at least a demo of how it looks

- Remove those paddings and go full screen

- Remove transitions, they may look good but they're not usable in this case

- App feels heavy, not sure because of transitions, but feels slow.

Also if by simple you mean this:

- REST API and API documentation

- Invites sent via e-mail

- Full design

- Twitter integration

- Users and Abilities

- Multi-teams feature and ability to switch

Then I don't know what's simple anymore.

Re: Show HN: I built this simple Trello clone today and launched it before lunch

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Post by perilunar »

yodon wrote: post #2

Without even a screenshot or anything I’m unlikely to create an account on some site I’ve never heard of

Agree. Need to be able to see what it is and play with before I set up an account. The point to prompt to create an account is when the user is about to leave: "set up an account to save this page".

Re: Show HN: I built this simple Trello clone today and launched it before lunch

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Post by davewasthere »

kinduff wrote: post #3

Looks nice but it's more a kanban board rather than a Trello clone. I don't doubt you're that skilled to build something like this "before lunch", but in my experience it is highly unlikely. A few tips: - Add a landing page or at least a demo of how it looks - Remove those paddings and go full screen - Remove transitions, they may look good but they're not usable in this case - App feels heavy, not sure because of tr…

The transitions were the main thing I picked up on... Individually they look nice. But less is definitely more.

App probably feels heavy because everything takes longer to do too. Doing something as 'simple' as Trello is actually quite complicated. Look at how easy it is to create a new list/column in each.

Still a pretty cool outcome though. UI design looks nice. And the pattern works pretty well for whatever you'd like to apply it too.

Re: Show HN: I built this simple Trello clone today and launched it before lunch

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Post by aculver »

kinduff wrote: post #3

Looks nice but it's more a kanban board rather than a Trello clone. I don't doubt you're that skilled to build something like this "before lunch", but in my experience it is highly unlikely. A few tips: - Add a landing page or at least a demo of how it looks - Remove those paddings and go full screen - Remove transitions, they may look good but they're not usable in this case - App feels heavy, not sure because of tr…

Thanks for providing such detailed and thoughtful feedback. I actually did build this app on top of https://bullettrain.co in less than two hours. I actually recorded the entire process and I'm happy to share the video privately. (You can DM me on Twitter or email me at andrew@bullettrain.co .) I'll post it publicly once someone is able to edit out the parts where I spend 10-15 minutes debugging really simple CSS issues, etc. I provided some more context on this project's purpose here: https://twitter.com/andrewculver/status/968215988436004864
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