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Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by t3e »

moodini wrote: post #30

Currently testing all kinds of tracking / ticketing software. This one looks really good, I love the simplicity. The design is superb. Congratulations! For my use case, list views are a must-have. You commented that such feature is on your roadmap. Are you planning to include configurable sorting, like: - list all items per user - list all items per label - list all prio 1 items Also I could'nt find a way to prioriti…

Thanks for the feedback!

- List view is on the roadmap but not designed yet; we'd love to understand your needs in more detail if you'd be up for dropping us a line at research@constructor.dev.

- By prioritize I presume you mean set an absolute priority? Priority right now is explicit in the ordering of tickets within their respective columns, but it's relative, not absolute. We're open to adding absolute priorities.

- You can search tickets with the search in the navbar, or filter the board to show a subset of tickets with the filter box.

- We haven't embarked on i18n/L10n yet but it's just a matter of prioritization – what language(s) do you require?

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by andylynch »

airstrike wrote: post #4

As 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

They do but it’s hard to gauge how widely, in part I think because folks doing those things are less likely to blog /post about it. But for example in a past role I set up Jira for a non-IT team in a national museum, and a colleague did the same to help a supermarket chain develop new products.

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by airstrike »

obilgic wrote: post #17
airstrike wrote: post #4

As 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.

Agreed, which is why I'm advocating for a less-specialized version of this software

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by t3e »

airstrike wrote: post #33
obilgic wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hyper specialized software is often not necessary; hence excel and trello.

Agreed, which is why I'm advocating for a less-specialized version of this software

We don't disagree and we've heard from non-technical managers and designers that Constructor has the potential to be simply "a better Trello for everyone". This is probably because despite being designed for software teams we try to serve all roles equally well, i.e. make sure we create an outstanding UX for the non-developers on those teams. Something we've seen happen at a lot of places is a "tool schism" where part of the team (design or PM) will cleave off and use Trello or Basecamp and leave the devs to Jira because they find it unusable, but the devs need their Jira for various good reasons. Constructor is designed to prevent tool schisms.

Your 80% observation is if anything an underestimate; there's almost nothing in Constructor that makes it dev-specific beyond the GitHub and devops integrations that are mostly absent if you don't activate them, and would be easy for us to make totally optional. This surprised us when we realized it, because we are quite devoted to serving software teams specifically.

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by helixc »

We're Constructor customer, and use it to manage our open source projects. It's fast and simple, and does all we want.

In addition to all that, the founding team, esp. Seth, is a hidden feature! Every time I feel our team needs some extra functions, I book a time and talk to Seth. He asks very deep questions about our work flow and pain points. Some of the questions even helped me to reflect on our way of doing things, so we could use the opportunity to evolve.

(edit: fixed typos)

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by t3e »

helixc wrote: post #35

We're Constructor customer, and use it to manage our open source projects. It's fast and simple, and does all we want. In addition to all that, the founding team, esp. Seth, is a hidden feature! Every time I feel our team needs some extra functions, I book a time and talk to Seth. He asks very deep questions about our work flow and pain points. Some of the questions even helped me to reflect on our way of doing thing…

Thanks, Helin! Very happy to hear I've been helpful; I'll go ahead and add myself to our features comparison page.

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by yamazakiwi »

drcongo wrote: post #13

Hello, 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…

We're using an app we built internally in a similar fashion with clients having access to the boards.

We were spun off a consultancy and use it with all our consultants clients.

PM me for more information!

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by beingflo »

Absolutely love this! The design language and focus on simplicity is right up my alley. If there isn't any blocker (pun intended) that I'll only come across later this will definitely replace Todoist for me. Are there any restrictions on the free plan? I'd be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to make the "single-person-plan" sustainable without the need to restrict it in the future. Also, one thing that I notice in the demo is a flurry of requests triggered on just about any user activity. Is this just extra analytics in the demo or is this also present in the full app?

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by Aalk4308 »

beingflo wrote: post #38

Absolutely love this! The design language and focus on simplicity is right up my alley. If there isn't any blocker (pun intended) that I'll only come across later this will definitely replace Todoist for me. Are there any restrictions on the free plan? I'd be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to make the "single-person-plan" sustainable without the need to restrict it in the future. Also, one thing that I not…

> Absolutely love this! The design language and focus on simplicity is right up my alley.

Thanks for the compliment! We did put a lot of thinking and attention to detail into our design language.

> Are there any restrictions on the free plan? I'd be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to make the "single-person-plan" sustainable without the need to restrict it in the future.

Nope, there are no restrictions, and we don't intend for there to be in the future. The free plan is 100% fully-featured with no difference versus the paid plan aside from the limit on the size of your team.

> Also, one thing that I notice in the demo is a flurry of requests triggered on just about any user activity. Is this just extra analytics in the demo or is this also present in the full app?

There's no difference between the demo and the full app. You're right that some of what you're seeing is for analytics. There's also admittedly more network chatter than we'd like to keep the frontend synchronized with the backend, but we actually have work already in progress to reduce that substantially.

Re: Show HN: Constructor – simple issue tracking for small teams, inspired by Trello

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Post by beingflo »

Aalk4308 wrote: post #39
beingflo wrote: post #38

Absolutely love this! The design language and focus on simplicity is right up my alley. If there isn't any blocker (pun intended) that I'll only come across later this will definitely replace Todoist for me. Are there any restrictions on the free plan? I'd be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to make the "single-person-plan" sustainable without the need to restrict it in the future. Also, one thing that I not…

> Absolutely love this! The design language and focus on simplicity is right up my alley. Thanks for the compliment! We did put a lot of thinking and attention to detail into our design language. > Are there any restrictions on the free plan? I'd be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to make the "single-person-plan" sustainable without the need to restrict it in the future. Nope, there are no restrictions, and…

> Nope, there are no restrictions, and we don't intend for there to be in the future. The free plan is 100% fully-featured with no difference versus the paid plan aside from the limit on the size of your team.

Love to hear it! I'll remind myself to give feedback in return.

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