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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 jeremycarter »

ArlenBales wrote: post #191

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 acqu…

Not to derail this conversation but I would love to hear more about this use case. If you don't mind could you contact me? https://github.com/jeremylcarter

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

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Post by afont »

osigurdson wrote: post #57

One thing I've always wanted in a tool like this is the ability to map out probabilities, i.e., we do A, then B but after that we do either C,D or E. Each one on these has an associated probability (C: 0.4, D: 0.5, E: 0.1) and an associated estimate (C: 10 +- 5 normal, D: 12 +- 3 uniform, E: 3 +-1 normal). The UI would look like a graph and like ms project it could include resource levelling in order to show bottlene…

Twiglfo.com allows for this. You can put probabilities on nodes that make up a directed graph (think flowcharts). Bottlenecks and dependencies are also extremely easy to see in this UI.

As others have said, PM tools need to become more opinionated rather than recreating what already exists.

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

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Post by tonypham »

nashashmi wrote: post #448

I am encountering a few bugs: On Board -> Task opens in sidepanel -> Drag and drop task from section to sidepanel ##Fails Bought subscription -> appsumo returns key code -> used it in promo code. Still don't have full version. Very frustrating.

Hi nashashmi,

Appologize for the issues. Please send me a message via help@upbase.io.

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

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Post by tonypham »

pqs wrote: post #446

The Time Blocking feature is very sexy. It is exactly what I need. Currently, Evernote allows linking notes and calendar events, but it is cumbersome. Your solution is absolutely great.

I'm glad you like it. Let me know if have any feedback.

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

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Post by tonypham »

rejectfinite wrote: post #445

Maybe I don't get it, but why use this over Microsoft Teams with the To-Do app and/or Planner? Even with a personal Microsof account you can use Onenote, Teams (for chat I would use maybe Discord) and ToDo for lists. or Google Workspace ofc. Or even Proton.me But I have been interested in Notion or Wordpress to get my own Wiki going, but this does look good.

Switching back and forth between multiple apps is not very efficient, and you might have a hard time managing all your information when stuff's all over the place.

You can check it out to see if it's a good fit.

Cheers,

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

Well done on the launch!

There are a lot of these Trello/JIRA alternatives. I am sure they are better in one or more dimensions, but I sort of need some kind of evidence breadcrumb to make me believe it is worth the 5-10 hours of time to work out if your product is worth spending another lots of hours transitioning from JIRA to. In some sense then, for people using X already, the price doesn't matter, as long as it is not ridiculously high.

I imagine it is better to target more. Your story says "our team of six people was working on a small content marketing project.". Maybe if you target content marketing teams, you can talk directly to their pain? You might need a landing page per customer profile. Obviously with HN you can only submit one link, so the one for Engineering teams would make sense I guess.

I think start by selling to content marketing teams, as your mouths are full of that dog food already, and it tastes good presumably!

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

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Post by fire »

tonypham wrote: post #386
fire wrote: post #380

I would strongly suggest not having password complexity or length requirements except for perhaps a minimum length of 16+. Anything else is additional user frustration and serves no real purpose given that you're presumably not storing passwords in plaintext in the year 2022.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll consider making it a bit easier for users.

cool; just to expand - since hashed passwords are all the same length in a db, there's no benefit for max length requirements, and providing character limitations gives attackers a blueprint for brute force attacks since they now know what characters they don't need to try. When your requirements are too strict, this can make hashes orders of magnitude faster to reverse.

my personal stance is: if they can type it, it can be in a password

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

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Post by tonypham »

fire wrote: post #457
tonypham wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll consider making it a bit easier for users.

cool; just to expand - since hashed passwords are all the same length in a db, there's no benefit for max length requirements, and providing character limitations gives attackers a blueprint for brute force attacks since they now know what characters they don't need to try. When your requirements are too strict, this can make hashes orders of magnitude faster to reverse. my personal stance is: if they can type it, it…

The purpose of this is to prevent people from entering too simple passwords, like "theirname123". People still do it.

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

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Post by tonypham »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #456

Well done on the launch! There are a lot of these Trello/JIRA alternatives. I am sure they are better in one or more dimensions, but I sort of need some kind of evidence breadcrumb to make me believe it is worth the 5-10 hours of time to work out if your product is worth spending another lots of hours transitioning from JIRA to. In some sense then, for people using X already, the price doesn't matter, as long as it i…

Thanks for your feedback. Upbase is a generic tool and people can use it in whatever way works best for them. I might need to create pages highlighting use cases of how to use Upbase for Product teams, marketing teams, etc.

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

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Post by tonypham »

butterNaN wrote: post #438
tonypham wrote: post #424

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Thank you, however please note that Data Security and Data Privacy are distinct topics.

Got it. Thanks for your helpful feedback.
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