Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by crcarlson » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 8:43 PM UTC

Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
gantto.com

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Post by hapless » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:00 PM UTC

It's flash-based. I would have skipped the link if I had known.

My corporate desktop does not include flash. Surely corporate users are part of the core audience for Gantt charts?

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Post by patrickaljord » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:03 PM UTC

100% flash? No thanks. Good luck though.

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Post by jmillerinc » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:06 PM UTC

Probably just a coincidence, but -

http://gantto.com/

http://preceden.com/

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Post by mrshoe » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:06 PM UTC

I'm sure some people on HN would find this app useful, but how on earth has this submission garnered 39 votes in 22 minutes?

I hope their aren't "pay $50 to get your post to the top of HN" services cropping up...

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Post by thorax » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:09 PM UTC

hapless wrote: post #2

It's flash-based. I would have skipped the link if I had known. My corporate desktop does not include flash. Surely corporate users are part of the core audience for Gantt charts?

To provide the opposite anecdote: my corporate desktops have always had Flash, if nothing else but to allow Flash video tutorials, etc.

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Post by crcarlson » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

hapless wrote: post #2

It's flash-based. I would have skipped the link if I had known. My corporate desktop does not include flash. Surely corporate users are part of the core audience for Gantt charts?

Thanks, this is a good data point. Yes corporate users are definitely our audience. The users we have talked to so far have had Flash or were able to get it. The reason we are posting is to get different points of view, so this is useful feedback.

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Post by thorax » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:14 PM UTC

Video looks decent enough. I would see this as a difficult feature to get people to know about. Preparing Gantt charts for presentations seems to be a niche enough market (project managers, IT consultants, managers, etc?) that you might have trouble getting them to adopt this tool. Certainly would be very difficult to get them to pay money for it.

Seems more like a feature you'd expect from a web-based project management software than something stand-alone. Is that your intention here? License the technology/tools to a service like that?

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Post by crcarlson » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:15 PM UTC

jmillerinc wrote: post #4

Probably just a coincidence, but - http://gantto.com/ http://preceden.com/

Yeah, that site is neat. Our current goal is to build interactive presentations for different sets of schedule data, so not quite the same thing.

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Post by awa » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:16 PM UTC

mrshoe wrote: post #5

I'm sure some people on HN would find this app useful, but how on earth has this submission garnered 39 votes in 22 minutes? I hope their aren't "pay $50 to get your post to the top of HN" services cropping up...

Checkout this thing I made posts are generally popular at HN... coz they cater to all the startup and hacker mentality.