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

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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…

Crushed it, you're spot on.

I've found the lesser of two evils to be that Product integrate as closely as possible with engineering, which means using either Jira or GitHub issues for high"er" level deliverables. You have to be careful not to use too much of the textbook PM speak--"As a , I can do with the platform"--but if you orient yourself around the logical scoping of engineering work, it's a whole hell of a lot easier for engineers to tie their own work items into the progress (or unfortunate lack thereof) that all of us are inevitably expected to report up to our various business leaders.

That does require some technical acumen. I'm the first to admit that I don't have any of the formal bona fides for said acumen (and I deal with a great deal of imposter syndrome as a result). But when I listen to the engineers, understand their technical blockers, AND colocate our work items, I usually have an easier time.

And yeah, I still gotta copy/paste a bunch of shit into Sheets/Slides for management

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

#422

Just signed up. Feedback so far: - Specify what counts as "symbols" in a password (a = sign apparently does not). - When you click rename on a "section" (a column in the kanban board), I suggest focus the text box in the modal so the user can start typing immediately). Apart from this, it looks great and I'm going to try it out a bit.

Thanks for your helpful feedback. We'll work on these issues shortly.

After a bit more trying out, can I just say this looks like a really well made tool! I'm going to use it for real for keeping track of a couple of private projects.

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

#424

The Privacy Policy [1] only covers what is defined as "Personal Data". What about the data created by users themselves? E.g. Tasks/cards created by users. Is user-generated data private enough? I know Trello, Asana, etc. are widely used by businesses, but that is after many b2b guarantees about privacy, defined through legal agreements. For everyone else, it's what you say in Privacy policy document. Bonus: If the da…

Thanks for your feedback. We'll update this page, or even create a separate security page to talk about data security.

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

#425

This looks really impressive even more so with the small team. For how long have you been marketing/getting word out there? I started trying to get word out on an app of mine last week, things are moving sloooowly.

Thanks for your feedback. We started focusing on marketing a few months ago. Yeah, it's tough to get the word out about the product since there's too much noise out there.

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

#426
Hey everyone,

I'm thinking of introducing an Individual pricing plan (one user only) in which we strip away all team features. This would help bring much better user experiences since there was no unnecessary clutter or noise.

I'd like to hear your thoughts about it.

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

#427

This looks really impressive even more so with the small team. For how long have you been marketing/getting word out there? I started trying to get word out on an app of mine last week, things are moving sloooowly.

Thanks for your feedback. We started focusing on marketing a few months ago. Yeah, it's tough to get the word out about the product since there's too much noise out there.

Yeah, tons of noise. Congratulations on getting to where you are, and good luck going forward!

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

#428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your helpful feedback. We'll work on these issues shortly.

After a bit more trying out, can I just say this looks like a really well made tool! I'm going to use it for real for keeping track of a couple of private projects.

Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you like it.

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

#429
post #107

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…

"The FileSystem API looked promising, and then google killed it."

How do you mean? They're doing blog posts about web access to the filesystem just this month.

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