100% flash? No thanks. Good luck though.
What do you have against flash as far as this tool is concerned? How and how much would having such a tool but entirely in HTML5 influence your buying decision?
Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
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Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#12Ok you can import from all the current tools but what about exporting to them?
This can give people the confident that I can work on this on my own but when I send the file to somebody I can send them in a format that they know (also, good for trials, I will try it but what if I don't like it, I will have to redo all the stuff in my fave s/w again)
Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#13I'm sure some people on HN would find this app useful, but how on earth has this submission garnered 39 votes in 22 minutes? I hope their aren't "pay $50 to get your post to the top of HN" services cropping up...
We definitely didn't pay anyone for this privilege.
Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#141) If you have collapsed a rollup and it contains tasks with precedents for other tasks, then the rollup needs to have the lines added.
2) If you collapse a rollup, it should still be draggable in time (left and right) and this should move all tasks within the rollup as one thing. The first task seems to have that functionality, but that's not intuitive.
3) Why can't you drag up and down since you have move up and move down?
4) On the date picker... DD, WW, MM, QQ, YY, ALL... but where is financial year? Or rather... custom iterations (fortnights, financial year, reporting segment, etc).
5) If I stuck this on a web page... could I give it data somehow? Could I provide it with some XML (since I note you allow save in that format) via JavaScript?
6) Colours... but yeah you're getting to that. The templates... they're kinda ugly but you've got the right idea and people will want to fit them to their own company scheme.
7) Your zoom buttons need a "Return to default".
8) It's got to be said... but you really need to allow XML import from MS Project files.
9) Keyboard shortcuts. Think of the power users... they should be able to create tasks with the simplicity of moving through Excel... this is what your competition is. So they need to tab to go right (rather than next active control in the tab order) and return should go down to the next row.
Those are some starters :)
Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#15100% flash? No thanks. Good luck though.
What do you have against flash as far as this tool is concerned? How and how much would having such a tool but entirely in HTML5 influence your buying decision?
The interface is laggy in a way that HTML/JS (when correctly done) are not.
Interface lag when I drag things means I'm never going to use it - it can't compete against the many good desktop apps out there for me (plus, being flash means it wont work on my smartphone and iPad, which would have been a case for giving up on desktop apps) HTML/JS apps can have a ton of lag in sending things to the server before it gets frustrating, but dragging something and having it not move until a little bit later is too frustrating for me to use.
Take that with a grain of salt, though, I'm one of the people who get's extremely frustrated when having to use monitors not at their native resolutions (curse you DVDs on HD screens!)
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#16I'm sure some people on HN would find this app useful, but how on earth has this submission garnered 39 votes in 22 minutes? I hope their aren't "pay $50 to get your post to the top of HN" services cropping up...
It's ~5pm on the east coast of the US, I imagine there's generally a spike in traffic at this time which might have something to do with it.
Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#17Probably just a coincidence, but - http://gantto.com/ http://preceden.com/
Yeah, that site is neat. Our current goal is to build interactive presentations for different sets of schedule data, so not quite the same thing.
I think he was referring to the logo and color scheme being very similar.
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#18Video looks decent enough. I would see this as a difficult feature to get people to know about. Preparing Gantt charts for presentations seems to be a niche enough market (project managers, IT consultants, managers, etc?) that you might have trouble getting them to adopt this tool. Certainly would be very difficult to get them to pay money for it. Seems more like a feature you'd expect from a web-based project manage…
One of our hypotheses is that there is a market for visualization tools for PMs - mostly because the tools out there tend to focus on organization and analysis but not on presentation as an important aspect of communication. We are starting out as an addition/plugin on top of existing tools but if we do a good job it possible we could ultimately end up as a stand-alone app as well.
Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#19Your demo is ugly (Sorry, had to say it), but it works and I like the fact that you can pan around by clicking anywhere. That is not obvious however and might need a hint somewhere. The custom scrollbar is not intuitive because of the coloring, I kept thinking the track was the slider and vice-versa. After playing a bit more with it I discovered you have color themes. DEFINITELY use one of those by default. The grayscale theme is super boring and completely opposite of your goal which I believe is to "show off" your project schedule.
I think you should be able to pan by dragging the chart header (the months/years).
Turn on alternating columns in the demo. Also use the square or round corners but not the one in the middle.
Also the task tree could stand to be widened a bit by default, it looks weird that in your demo you start off with a bunch of tasks only showing halfway.
Expand/Collapse should be a single button, the icon of which changes to indicate state.
When you do a snapshot it is not clear what the output file is going to be I just got a file called "chart" - is that an Image? Is it a MS Project file?
I'm not sure you want to use the full blow "File/Edit/Format/View/Help" menu. It blends in too much with the chrome of the browser window and you would probably be better served (in terms of UI/UX) by using standard icons for the most commonly used items. Also add contrast to that menu/toolbar (Still talking only about file/edit/etc...) so that it doesn't blend with browser chrome so much.
The units on the "Zoom tool" in the bottom right corner are not obvious to me (the P and W)
Otherwise its looking really good. Keep at it!
Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
#20Ok you can import from all the current tools but what about exporting to them? This can give people the confident that I can work on this on my own but when I send the file to somebody I can send them in a format that they know (also, good for trials, I will try it but what if I don't like it, I will have to redo all the stuff in my fave s/w again)
This is a great point. We currently import from MS Proj but we don't yet fully export. I agree with you that it would lower the friction to starting up if it was guaranteed painless to transition back or work with other tools. This feature is on our near term roadmap.