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Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by Keats » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:39 AM UTC

kiejo wrote: post #70

Keats wrote: post #66

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Can I ask a bit more about ProseMirror? I am currently using a custom text editor but was looking into potentially replacing it with editors like ProseMirror, Slate.js How easy is it to write custom plugins/behaviour? For example our tables are much more complex than the ones from the default plugin, we have e-signature etc. I will have a look myself over the next weeks or so but wanted to get some opinion on that!

From my experience ProseMirror is not the easiest editor to get started with, but it gives you a lot of power in terms of customization and flexibility. Recently a more feature rich table module was released, which might come closer to what you expect in case you haven't seen it yet: https://github.com/prosemirror/prosemirror-tables . Once you get the hang of it, implementing custom plugins and behaviors is not that…

Yep I've seen that table plugin (I guess it's the one used on Nuclino?) but our tables are cost tables with calculations, currencies etc so it will probably need to be its own plugin. I can probably base it off this though, it looks better than ours.

Thanks for the reply, I guess I'll play with it once I manage to find some time!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by thirdsun » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 9:04 AM UTC

It looks promising. I really like the way you set your pricing tiers without limiting the number of items / rows / entries available to the user.

However are there any plans for mobile apps? That's an important feature.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by ricardobeat » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 10:07 AM UTC

bjoernm wrote: post #42

ricardobeat wrote: post #30

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I thought there was no pricing available until I came back and saw this comment, would not sign up for "freemium".

I'm sorry to hear that :( Do you prefer free trials, paid-only, or some other model?

Sorry, I should've been more clear: the lack of pricing info is what would prevent me from signing up (free == questionable longevity, reliability, qos).

At this point I'm totally burnt by commiting my data to free/freemium saas products that end up shutting down a year later, just want to pay for good service and have a bit of hope that it stays afloat.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by bjoernm » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 10:35 AM UTC

boyd wrote: post #67

Product looks really fantastic, and it was nice to see returns and tabs behaving as expected (feels snappy like a desktop app!). It's also nice how escape gets you back to the search bar – I don't have enough data to know how search prioritization scales, but feels really snappy and nice so far. One comment (admit this is a pet peeve) – it'd be really nice if Google and/or Github SSO was available on any of the paid…

Hi boyd, that's a good point. We're considering to add certain SSO providers like Google Suite to the basic plan and others like Active Directory to premium. Glad you like the table editor!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by kiejo » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 10:39 AM UTC

rjvs wrote: post #65

Like many here, I appreciate the design and feel of the product. It looks like you're experimenting with a desktop app (although you don't mention which platforms) is there any work on mobile apps? I couldn't find any mention of them on your website. Although the bulk of our Trello usage is on desktops, being able to access and respond to notifications when away from the desk/office/laptop are deal breakers for our t…

Great to hear you like the design and feel of the product :) We're currently beta testing a desktop app for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, but haven't started work on a mobile app yet. Of course we see the value in mobile and we'll get there eventually!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by bjoernm » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 10:43 AM UTC

JasonSage wrote: post #61

bjoernm wrote: post #28

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Thanks a lot for your thoughtful review! Here's some feedback: * Great to hear you like the design and UI! Contrast is not easy to get right with all the different screens and layouts, but we'll improve this. * Editing the item title in place is planned. * The current behavior of the uncategorized items is intentional, but as you noted it's not ideal and we're currently working on ways to improve it. * We're already…

I very much agree about the contrast issue. On my Mac it's great but if I plug in a less-than-perfect monitor it's too hard to look at. Your product has a great look and feel, looks very polished overall!

We'll definitely work on the contrast issue and test it on more screens! Happy to hear you like the look and feel of the product :)

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by bjoernm » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 10:47 AM UTC

thirdsun wrote: post #72

It looks promising. I really like the way you set your pricing tiers without limiting the number of items / rows / entries available to the user. However are there any plans for mobile apps? That's an important feature.

Even though we'd love to, we don't offer mobile apps yet. You can use Nuclino in a mobile browser, but it's not something we've been focusing on. As far as priorities go, we're currently focused on web and desktop first, but we'll release mobile apps eventually.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by bjoernm » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:33 AM UTC

crsv wrote: post #37

Sorry for the existential question - but how do you guys not get disenchanted in this space by the idea that if you actually manage to meaningfully differentiate that you're surrounded by nimble giants that can easily mimic your success and crush you?

We believe in what we do and so far we've not been able to find another product with the same focus that builds upon the same principles and ideas. Wanting Nuclino to exist and our passion to create it, is what drives us most. As for competition from established players, I wholeheartedly agree with the comment from davidjgraph. Every new startup faces this challenge, but history shows that it can be difficult for large companies to mimic the success of new products.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by david_p » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 12:50 PM UTC

Great UI, great product. I'd use your product to replace prodpad.com anytime :)

> We're already experimenting with different approaches to the graph visualization like visualizing the links between items.

Yes please! Being able to visualize links between items that I created would be amazing.

Coloring items by cluster would be great too: I'd like to have different types of items (some would represent customers, others features-requests, and I'd like to be able to differentiate customers and feature-requests in the graph visually while visualizing links among them).

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by CodeWriter23 » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 2:47 PM UTC

Honest feedback here, the choice to use the fade in effect on every single element on the home page resulted in me leaking out of the funnel at the very top. I just couldn't stand reading it, it was frustrating to swipe up a screenful and have to pause to read. Please know I present this constructively. Best of luck.