Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report generation

This looks very cool. In every company I've worked at the biggest hurdle with these tools is getting the entire team to use them and keep them up to date. I think that gen AI could provide tons of value with that problem (because most teams have members that don't update their tickets)

A while ago I had the idea that gen AI would probably be able to maintain a jira/kanban board of choice without people in your company being required to update it. You could track this based off what was going on with other company activity. E.g., looking at what people are saying in Slack, what commits a developer has pushed to GitHub, etc, what someone said they would do on a zoom call, etc.

Have you guys thought about any similar features in this space?

Congrats on the launch!

Yes, and we've done some great work with nonprofits before. We still need to make that visible somewhere on the updated website but shoot me an email: milad@itsdart.com

I guess it would be justified if the particular implementations we focus on (like AI roadmap planning or duplicate detection) are of interest to you. I'd agree that they are probably coming to other tools that want to adapt eventually, but by and large they aren't there yet! I think we take a markedly more AI-forward philosophy than other tools so I'm honestly not 100% sure that they even will fully adapt in a timely manner- especially the large incumbents. Most of those are still focused on finding different creative ways to put chatbots in their products instead of meshing useful AI features in a more streamlined way.

Also admittedly this isn't a product-reason, but at least for now as a relatively small startup we're able to offer a lot more custom support and strategizing with any team that switches over. I can't promise we won't eventually run into the same bottlenecks as the large companies eventually, but for now I'm confident our service is better and some of our users have expressed that as one of the primary motivators for keeping with Dart.

Ultimately, if you're happy with your current system and don't see your team becoming more efficient on Dart then it's probably not worth the switch. However it doesn't take long for any extra hours saved each week to start adding up.

Most of our users today have just been word of mouth, so we need to work harder on flexing our marketing muscles. I'd love to hear more about your experiences reaching PMs specifically.

Early on we reached out to various PMs on Linkedin and set up some calls that way but that was more for feedback and direction-setting than anything else. I think most of our growth with larger teams has started from the founder or C-level as opposed to PMs but that might be a sign we need to improve more here.

Loving the detailed product feedback, thanks so much. We'll process and take action to improve asap. Email also sounds great, support@ or zack@ whenever you like.

Sounds like HN was rate limiting you from posting all of your feedback? That's awesome hahaha

In short term, some quick thoughts

- Right now you only have one draft, and you can access it through the 'Resume draft' button in the top left

- We're planning to overhaul this accept/reject system for subtasks soon--a lot of the issues you're experiencing are very common, so we need to do better

- Also planning to improve onboarding flow there, thanks for the suggestion

- Not actually sure why you're being prevented from making that task, sorry for the trouble! We'll check it out right away. Tooltips are a great idea, we'll need to do more there

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