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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 eagsalazar2 »

blakesley wrote: post #330
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…

DFM? Google searches for it aren't turning up anything relevant.

Design for manufacturing. It is a focus, in building tooling, on how that tooling fits into the larger workflows around the specific domain of the tool, and the role that thoughtful tool design can play in improving (or damaging) the overall success and harmony of the entire system.

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

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Post by tonypham »

natovan wrote: post #184
tonypham wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. The dark mode is in progress now. It will be available in about 2 weeks.

Great. Also, I think I found an issue - timer works slower than it should. I started it with windows timer for 20 minutes and when it stopped upbase timer still had 5 minutes to count down

Thanks for letting me know. We'll look into the issue. Cheers,

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

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Post by tonypham »

tr3ntg wrote: post #393

I was skeptical until I saw that you’ve included messages, a separate chat, and file hosting. It’d be hard to migrate an existing team over to this, but for new teams, this would be cool to adopt. One single “work space.” I

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Yes, migrating data from one app to another is not always easy.

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

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Post by KingOfCoders »

tonypham wrote: post #230
KingOfCoders wrote: post #223

Nearly bought the lifetime license, but a calendar without Google calendar integration? How is this supposed to work? (not asking to be mean but perhaps I'm missing something)

Since we're still early days, the Google Calendar integration is still on our roadmap and not available yet. It's the most requested feature, so we will try to ship it as soon as we can.

Great!

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

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Post by tonypham »

agd wrote: post #29
laurent123456 wrote: post #5

Does it support Markdown? That's what I find lacking in many of these PM tools - they either use some custom, complicated markup, or wysiwyg, which makes it hard to format text properly and copy and paste text.

I'm a solo founder working on a project management tool which supports markdown. Take a look. :) https://macroapp.io

I love the clean UI. All the best!

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

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Post by rg111 »

I love this and would love to try this out.

My question is, you say, there are 2 lists for the free users.

What exactly are "lists" in your app?

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On a different note, I always long for an app that is designed for the solo user for personal needs only.

Most people, including myself, have to use for work what their org uses for task management.

But an app designed specifically for solo users would be great. No need for collab tools or messaging, just simple one-user workflow across multiple devices with free sync.

I would pay $10/$20/$30 one-time for it. It would be so great.

I would like to track here what languages/libraries I am going to learn next, to what movie I want to watch to books that I would want to read.

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

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Post by SeriousM »

tonypham wrote: post #281
SeriousM wrote: post #274

It looks very helpful! I tried other tools before and the best so far was azure devops - but It's not for PMs. Jira is, well... jira (driven by a pm team that doesn't stop adding useless changes). Trello is just to simple for complex things. I guess upbase is exactly what it needs to have a small and good pm management. I will buy a lifetime license. A question thoug: will it support jottacloud for document storage?…

Thanks for your feedback and support. Upbase doesn't support Jottacloud at the moment since there are very few requests for it.

Another question for you: is there any demand for contact management? I mean not a full fledged CRM but somehow note with whom a correspondence has happened or which external person I need to contact for a specific task. It would be important to tag/find person related interactions.

Thanks!

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

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Post by dxdm »

leokennis wrote: post #334
drc500free wrote: post #329

Firstly, congratulations on your launch! My personal opinion as a Product Manager is that there is no all-in-one tool, there never will be an all-in-one tool, and anyone promising an all-in-one tool has some significant blinders on around the job functions they have been exposed to. Sales will use Salesforce. Engineering will use JIRA. And Product will use some generic roadmap-first tool like Asana, Trello, Miro, Mon…

That is super interesting. To build “the one tool” you’d then need to actually build five tools (one with tickets and commits and pipelines for engineers, one for sales etc.) and find a way to “translate” from one to the other. Like, how do you translate git commits and tests run to “project Y is now Z% done”?

> how do you translate git commits and tests run to “project Y is now Z% done”?

You don't, because in most cases, for anything that has the scale of a "project", nobody knows how many commits it will take for it to be done.

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