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Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by ArlenBales »

Nice design! Your features do resonate to me as a contractor because a lot of my clients know very little about computers and sharing them links to Trello, Slack, etc. often confounds them with technical debt. Having everything in one place for collaboration is ideal for those kind of customers.

It's also a double-edged sword, because decentralization is safer for me if your company ever goes belly-up or you are acquired by a company that decides to change the product for the worst. On that note, I'm not seeing any options to download or export all my upbase data. Will that be on the roadmap? I don't think I can really commit to upbase until that safety net is at least on the roadmap.

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by justWells »

tonypham wrote: post #131
twobitshifter wrote: post #103

I would think about your positioning some. You’re marketing this as having “less complexity” which first of all, isn’t going to appeal to people unless they’ve already used the other tools. But, if they had tried Trello, that’s far from complex, as you say it doesn’t have the features you think are needed, so you are more complex than that. It might be that you’re excellent at UX but that needs some comparative examp…

Thanks so much for your suggestions. And yes, you're right. Positioning is what we're trying to figure out at the moment. We'll consider your feedback very seriously. Thanks again for taking the time to give us some ideas. Cheers,

I work in B2B SaaS marketing as a PMM.

I’d try something a little catchy’r on the home page.

“Personalized project management for the entire team”

Or something of that ilk

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by tonypham »

eagsalazar2 wrote: post #181
twobitshifter wrote: post #103

I would think about your positioning some. You’re marketing this as having “less complexity” which first of all, isn’t going to appeal to people unless they’ve already used the other tools. But, if they had tried Trello, that’s far from complex, as you say it doesn’t have the features you think are needed, so you are more complex than that. It might be that you’re excellent at UX but that needs some comparative examp…

DFM may be a nice lens to look at positioning this through IMO. It's thoughtfully designed around the larger workflow which more archaic (jab jab) tools don't understand or ignore. Honestly I love Trello but wouldn't give it the time of day in your positioning. Just emphasizing the depth of expertise and broad perspective on daily/weekly individual/team workflow that made your tool possible will, without saying it, b…

Thanks so much for your contribution. You made some really great points here. I'll take your ideas into consideration. Thanks again for your help.

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by ildon »

philippz wrote: post #71

Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on flights, I'm often offline; while traveling, I'm often offline. Offline capabilities are often neglected.

Try akiflow.com, it has excellent offline support.

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by TimMeade »

tonypham wrote: post #121
TimMeade wrote: post #74

Interesting. We are very much in need of something like this. BUT; I setup both mobile and and desktop web. Seems like they are not syncing. Certainly not real time. Added to desktop and still not on mobile 3 minutes later even if i refresh. I logged into both with my goggle account. Are they even the same board? Deal breaker on the lack of realtime sync.

On mobile, are you using the app or the browser? The app has real-time sync with the desktop web.

Mobile App IOS from app store. Sync did not work

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by tonypham »

justWells wrote: post #192
tonypham wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks so much for your suggestions. And yes, you're right. Positioning is what we're trying to figure out at the moment. We'll consider your feedback very seriously. Thanks again for taking the time to give us some ideas. Cheers,

I work in B2B SaaS marketing as a PMM. I’d try something a little catchy’r on the home page. “Personalized project management for the entire team” Or something of that ilk

Thanks for your suggestions. I must admit that copywriting is freaking hard - much harder than designing and building products :))

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by nisten »

postcoroner wrote: post #187
nisten wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had not looked into RxDB before thank you. By any chance you know how much their Premium plugin with IndexedDB support costs, their price is not listed.

You could use the dexie.js based storage [1] as a start. It is fast enough for most use cases and comes for free. [1] https://rxdb.info/rx-storage-dexie.html

It looks like dexie supports svelte, this is pretty awesome thank you. https://dexie.org/docs/Tutorial/Svelte

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by tonypham »

jacurtis wrote: post #190
tonypham wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks so much for your suggestions. And yes, you're right. Positioning is what we're trying to figure out at the moment. We'll consider your feedback very seriously. Thanks again for taking the time to give us some ideas. Cheers,

I really like the positioning of "a project management suite for solos and small teams". That to me is very appealing because these don't really exist very well. Most project management tools are designed for tons of people. You might be able to make them work for a solo or small team, but they tend to be focused on larger teams, because as mentioned previously, those tend to be the customers spending the most money…

Thanks for your valuable feedback and suggestions. I greatly appreciate it.

The one thing I'm concerned about regarding the positioning of "a project management suite for solos and small teams" is that people will question: "If my team grows bigger, does the app still work well for us? Or we have to find another solution?"

Re: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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Post by kevsim »

philippz wrote: post #71

Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on flights, I'm often offline; while traveling, I'm often offline. Offline capabilities are often neglected.

Yeah, when we built our product (kitemaker.co) we introduced offline capabilities quite early because my co-founder often had very spotty wifi during train commutes. We ended up making all writes totally optimistic with data sync in the background. Has the nice performance benefit of the frontend never waiting for the server as well.
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