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

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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 tonypham »

agsamek wrote: post #217

Congratulations for your contribution to PM, creating and sharing your toolbox. I wish I will be able to accomplish releasing such work for my process as well at some point in time. Building a team is always a turn-key project. Tools are a part of it. Time will tell if this is going to be a widely adopted framework or you are able to inspire several people with your ideas and some of them get adopted in other tools.…

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I learned a lot along the way. I think the hardest part is having the courage to take the first step.

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

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Post by tonypham »

Void_ wrote: post #185
oDot wrote: post #133

I am the author of https://Nestful.app (there's some overlap, but we do not seem to compete). I have built it after being through the same ordeal, and have come to the conclusion that the tool is not the main hurdle, especially at the level of Trello or Asana, which are very high quality tools. The lack of productivity comes from the methodology those tools implement. Their methodologies contributed a whole lot but b…

Your landing page doesn’t tell me much on mobile.

We have mobile apps on both iOS and Android. Yes, we definitely need to improve our website. Don't have much time for it yet.

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

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Post by makach »

Wow! I love your work!

You need to add 2FA to you authentication, security is a big deal. How do will I know that my project information is safe on your site? It has almost all the features would need for doing pm. I will definitively try it out!

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

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Post by solardev »

bornfreddy wrote: post #216
eagsalazar2 wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

With UX and performance jabs you take care of clickup too. God it sucks.

I haven't used ClickUp much myself, but I've heard good things about it. Why does it suck for you?

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

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Post by Zamicol »

nisten wrote: post #107
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.

It's rare to see offline support in a web app for a few reasons: LocalStorage is easy to use but too limited at 50Mb. WebSQL got deprecated by FireFox because of secuirty issues years ago ( albeit is still somewhat supported in Chrome ). The FileSystem API looked promising, and then google killed it. IndexedDb is the only option, it's slow on writes, therefore requiring major hacks like absurd-sql to be performant. I…

Insightful comment! I've faced similar issues when wanting to store an arbitrary amount of data "locally", but usable via a web interface. Because of the various limitations you enumerated, our conclusion was to have a local web server, written in Go, that stores what we need on disk. Then the web application talks over a JSON HTTP API when storing and retrieving.

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

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Post by jonp888 »

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.

Remember the Milk (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/) is a fairly advanced todo application which works identically offline and online.

I believe they use Google Firebase Cloud to automatically synchronise data between all devices and platforms.

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

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Post by jonwest »

kodah wrote: post #245

Pretty cool! Congratulations on launching a useful product. As a side conversation, this project and how you described it made me think about why I have such issues with Jira. Jira is actually fucking useless to me . To the business, it's indispensible because it captures the larger tasks that roll up to a larger business objective. However, for each of those larger tasks I have a series of conversations and cross-fu…

This is a huge ask, but would you mind elaborating on your workflow a bit? I really struggled with Jira at work, and I _think_ it was for similar reasons that you described.

Are you saying that what is a story at work, and captured within a single “unit” within Jira (I don’t want to use “task”, because that’s a separate thing in Jira) is more broad, but you benefit from having that story broken down further, and that’s where you would use something like Upbase?

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

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Post by priyadarshy »

chrisacky wrote: post #135
tonypham wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Due to popular demand, Google Calendar will be our first integration. After that, we'll consider adding more Calendars, like Outlook.

Can you consider the improtance of also integrating with Color Coding too when you do these? You seriously don't want to see my calendar each week. (Or maybe you do for understanding this pain point).. but having a personal planning tool understand the colors of my calendar events would be an immediate killer for me. I've tested abotu 15 different tools, and in the end found that there wans't any personal tools avail…

Founder at Sunsama here.

What would close the gap between "closest" and "perfect for you"?

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

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Post by tonypham »

nickbauman wrote: post #189

I'm sure this has some amazing features that really help with project and personal productivity mgmt compared to other systems. But let me ask you a question. If I want to get your attention, which one of the following techniques will work best: 1) Write you a snailmail letter 2) Send you an email 3) Send you a text 4) Write it on a yellow post-it note on your refrigerator The answer is 4. Because it's the most diffi…

I think it depends. For simple notes/reminders/to-do lists, paper and pen are enough. But for bigger projects, you might need a tool. Choosing the right tool for your needs can make a significant impact on your progress. That's why there are so many PM tools on the market. Cheers,
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