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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 »

kristianc wrote: post #265
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…

Related on positioning - all of the above is correct and also unless you’re going hard for the SEO marketing / growth hacker angle I’d maybe reconsider AppSumo as a partner as I very much associate them with the SEO / website takeover modal / scuzzy dark pattern side of things. AppSumo will also bring in a very specific type of customer.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll consider it.

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

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Post by Keyframe »

Terretta wrote: post #162
Keyframe wrote: post #44

Kudos to your effort! I think I will be next in line, over time, with similar post. Everything I’ve tried is just not working (in full). From now great experience, it seems team sizes need definitely different approaches and also it seems people building those tools don’t really have much experience in what works and what doesn’t across orgs and team sizes. To be honest, I strongly believe it’s not possible to build…

> it seems people building those tools don’t really have much experience in what works and what doesn’t across orgs and team sizes... Try Linear. https://linear.app/method Opinionated, in a good way, and willing to slay sacred cows, such as replacing estimated sprints with you get done what you prioritized cycles, or milestones with roadmaps. (Now if I could just get them to replace "Projects" with something evergree…

Thanks, I will most definitely check it out. I can already see it sings the song of my people:

Productivity software should be opinionated. It's the only way the product can truly do the heavy lifting for you. Flexible software lets everyone invent their own workflows, which eventually creates chaos as teams scale.

and

Teams at different sizes have different needs.

the question now is if my opinion is overlapping, heh. These two quotes are definitely my experience, with one more which is fluidity in projects themselves from design, to 'tasks' to priority.

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

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Post by tonypham »

yawnxyz wrote: post #288

This is maybe shallow, but on the about page, could you put you and your co-founders pictures w/ a short description and maybe your twitter handles? For some reason I'm a sucker to pay for an indie service like this when I see who the people behind it are. I feel like me $6 to those founders goes a much farther way than to something like Trello.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll take it into consideration.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

vsri wrote: post #267

Recovering marketer from the productivity space here. Your product looks great. Here's my two cents on the "positioning" dicussion happening: the copy on your "Our story" page reads like most other productivity apps out there. Sorry to be so blunt, but it's generic, buzzwordy, and you can swap your company name out for any other company. > That's why we decided to build XXXXX — an all-in-one work management software…

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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 trentnix »

As someone whose team just got bitten - again - by Jira descriptions being overwritten by an unwitting user with unsaved changes, I feel you. I just can’t imagine why it isn’t easy to recover a previous description and its formatting. Jira solves the larger collaboration problems, but blows it on the small stuff.

I spent the next hour fuming and imagining how it would work if it was done right (i.e. the way I thought it should work). Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.

I soon sobered up, realizing I had neither time nor patience (or talent, maybe) to build it right.

Respect to you for rolling your own.

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

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Post by tonypham »

makach wrote: post #254

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!

Thanks for your kind words. We're still early days, and there is big room for improvement. I'm aware that security is a big deal, and we'll take it very seriously.

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

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Post by yawnxyz »

tonypham wrote: post #243
cloudking wrote: post #232

"Our story" page doesn't tell us anything about you, the founders, team etc. Before I give you access to my Google data, it would be nice to know who you are and your backgrounds.

I assume that people want to hear about our story and why we decided to build "just-another-PM-tool", rather than who I am, since it's boring and makes no difference unless I'm a well-known founder.

I want to hear specifically who you are! I think that builds a connection between me and your product, its origins, and philosophy.

Some restaurants do this pretty well, from small around-the-corner Italian places, to even places like Five Guys where they use their underdog story as a way to build connection. Of course they're not an underdog anymore though.

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

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Post by omnimus »

esskay wrote: post #6

Immediately turned off by the AppSumo lifetime deal. Seems to be where projects go to draw in a bit of cash before they fail or get sold off. Lifetime deals on products that have a real recurring lifetime cost rarely work out, and are an immediate red flag, especially for a new project.

Better uptime https://betterstack.com/better-uptime has done it and built amazing product using this initial money. It makes sense for small bootstrapped teams.
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