Looks great and super smart to have the instant demo. More SAAS tools should offer that.
Jira / Atlassian / etc. does my head in every time I even have to login, let alone use it.
Hope this tool / ones like it will take off!
Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
11–20 of 48 posts
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#12Looks great and super smart to have the instant demo. More SAAS tools should offer that. Jira / Atlassian / etc. does my head in every time I even have to login, let alone use it. Hope this tool / ones like it will take off!
Thank you for the feedback!
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#13Hello, this is possibly relevant to my interests but I can't quite tell. We have a couple of requirements from an issue tracker and I've yet to find any service that meets them.
1. We need to give clients access, and we need to give those clients fairly fine grained control - ie: This user can see the tickets, move them around, comment etc. but not close them. On some projects we have lots of people on the client side that want to be able to see the tickets, so we very much don't want to have to pay per user for client access. For many reasons, giving them GitHub access is not ideal, but the biggest reason is that GitHub's permissions model on issues is, at best, bizarre.
2. I got quite excited when I saw the words "bidirectional GitHub integration" on the home page, but then I read the description underneath and I'm having a really hard time picturing what it does. We like adding ticket numbers to commits, because that keeps a reference to the change that was made in the ticket thread on GitHub. Other devs coming in can easily read the thread and click through to see the change. Your description of the GitHub integration seems very focussed on PRs rather than tickets, and the way we work a PR is most likely to contain many, many commits, and multiple tickets.
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#14> You can take it for a spin with our instant, no-signup demo at https://try.constructor.dev – please let us know what you think!
I love it! I wish more SaaS will provide such abstraction for users who only want a preview of all features. I find silly trial periods a quite waste of resources (storage, mailing cost etc.). When I am testing a new product I use test/fake data (e.g. temporal/masked e-mail address) and there is near-zero chance I will convert to paid account with it. I would rather create new account to drop all testing history behind me.
Congratulations, and I hope you will cut some pie from this crazy Jira-like-software market cake!
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#15Hello, this is possibly relevant to my interests but I can't quite tell. We have a couple of requirements from an issue tracker and I've yet to find any service that meets them. 1. We need to give clients access, and we need to give those clients fairly fine grained control - ie: This user can see the tickets, move them around, comment etc. but not close them. On some projects we have lots of people on the client sid…
Hi, thanks for your feedback and questions.
1. We have something in this direction already in the form of "guest users" that can be added to your boards and don't count as a seat. They currently have full privileges on the boards they can see, though – our permissions model isn't fine-grained yet.
2. Sounds like we may need to improve our description of this feature, but right now, we're optimizing for small-PR "trunk-based dev" [1] workflows where a ticket can have several PRs, but a PR always maps to a single ticket. We push the ticket info onto PRs in GitHub so code reviewers don't even have to click through to Constructor to get the context they need to do their review. We'll definitely support use cases like yours in the future, though!
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#16Hello, this is possibly relevant to my interests but I can't quite tell. We have a couple of requirements from an issue tracker and I've yet to find any service that meets them. 1. We need to give clients access, and we need to give those clients fairly fine grained control - ie: This user can see the tickets, move them around, comment etc. but not close them. On some projects we have lots of people on the client sid…
Hi, thanks for your feedback and questions. 1. We have something in this direction already in the form of "guest users" that can be added to your boards and don't count as a seat. They currently have full privileges on the boards they can see, though – our permissions model isn't fine-grained yet. 2. Sounds like we may need to improve our description of this feature, but right now, we're optimizing for small-PR "trun…
Thanks for the response, this definitely sounds like one to keep an eye on then! Congrats on the launch and look forward to seeing where you take it.
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#17As much as I like developing software, I sort of wish these tools existed outside of the software use case. It seems like 80% of the concept can be repurposed for other types of team collaboration and I'm not sure how well that market is served
hyper specialized software is often not necessary; hence excel and trello.
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#18Nice! Is there only a kanban style view, or is there a way to get a list view as well?
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#19Nice! Is there only a kanban style view, or is there a way to get a list view as well?
No list view yet, but it's on our roadmap!
Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello
#20> You can take it for a spin with our instant, no-signup demo at https://try.constructor.dev – please let us know what you think! I love it! I wish more SaaS will provide such abstraction for users who only want a preview of all features. I find silly trial periods a quite waste of resources (storage, mailing cost etc.). When I am testing a new product I use test/fake data (e.g. temporal/masked e-mail address) and th…
Thanks! We have the exact same complaints, and that's why we invested so much effort in this approach. I think a lot of companies would never do this because they'd fear adversely impacting their conversions metric, but our goal is to just get people to understand our product as quickly and easily as possible and hopefully get feedback.
We also really don't like product tours that lock you into an endless sequence of modals, so we came up with this "overlay" that users can turn on and off, inspired by museum audio guides you can hold up to your ear whenever you like, or ignore entirely.