I guess for personal use it's a bit expensive. Remember The Milk costs $25/a year vs $100/year for Flow.
MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
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Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#12Perhaps this is exactly what Asana needs. Nothing drives a group like a strong competitor. An interesting lesson for all entrepreneurs as Asana has had a beta rolling since June of 2010. Plenty of time to get something to market. Something > Nothing. Let's hope both end with great products - I love the concept.
Nothing drives a group like a strong competitor.
Funny I came in to say the "team collaboration" space seems terribly crowded.
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#13As a user of Flow for the past few weeks, I've been blown away by its UI and usefulness. Unfortunately, the pricing seems a bit steep for personal use. I'd also like to see some clarity on how pricing works with groups of people.
So how much would you pay for personal use? It seems almost impossible to sell any web app for personal use.
What's the reasoning behind 'almost impossible'?
A price point of $40/2-to-4-users, or even $40/year, is much more thinkable for individuals/families than $120/year/person.
From the screenshots, it seems like it should be possible to have a cheaper capped-to-a-small-set-of-collaborators version that a family of 3-6 could use, but still charge business prices for more/arbitrary collaborators and other features.
(I have a friend who's been looking for a good app to coordinate family tasks with his wife; iPhone apps and simplicity/speed/reliability of interface are of paramount importance... but integration with web/email/desktop, following-features, and threads are all of negligible importance. Flow looks nice but overkill in features and price for this need.)
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#14Can you really call it an "Asana competitor"? Last I checked, Asana was still vaporware.
I think you're mistaking a "closed, really private beta" with Duke Nukem Forever vaporware. There are hundreds of people using Asana with great success according to the videocast on their site. Organizations ranging from software companies, recruiting firms to biotech institutions.
Speaking of which if anyone from Asana wants to give an invite to a 5 man Django shop, we'd love to test it out for you guys. My contact information is in my profile :)
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#15Since Flow launched first, isn't Asana a Flow competitor?
Just what I was thinking. I'm interested in hearing how long Flow was in development versus Asana (2+ years?). Considering Asana hasn't launched diddly, I'd say flow is the incumbent.
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#16As a user of Flow for the past few weeks, I've been blown away by its UI and usefulness. Unfortunately, the pricing seems a bit steep for personal use. I'd also like to see some clarity on how pricing works with groups of people.
So how much would you pay for personal use? It seems almost impossible to sell any web app for personal use.
It seems almost impossible to sell any web app
I think this is becoming (or always has been) a general truth. Customers now expect everything available on the internet to be free. But they're more than happy to pay money for things that aren't on the internet.
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#17Since Flow launched first, isn't Asana a Flow competitor?
Just what I was thinking. I'm interested in hearing how long Flow was in development versus Asana (2+ years?). Considering Asana hasn't launched diddly, I'd say flow is the incumbent.
Has Asana really been in development for 2 years? Maybe someone should send them a copy of Dreaming in Code.
Edit: Wow, I just looked at their "feature list" again. Do you REALLY need LDAP integration? Does it really need to be written in an in-house language? Why does a todo list that's supposed to work just as well for a single user need Gantt charts and a wall on each todo item?
If anyone's ever used Quickbase, that's what the feature set makes it sound like.
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#18I have a similar side project.
How do you guys respond to seeing something similar launched? Assure yourself that you have better execution?
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#19As a user of Flow for the past few weeks, I've been blown away by its UI and usefulness. Unfortunately, the pricing seems a bit steep for personal use. I'd also like to see some clarity on how pricing works with groups of people.
So how much would you pay for personal use? It seems almost impossible to sell any web app for personal use.
I pay $12/month each for GitHub and Harvest, both for personal use.
Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
#20Flow is a great product and emphasizes the "ship sooner, rather than later" model. They had a set goal in mind, and with a relatively small team, managed to create a family of amazing apps in a short space of time. Kudos! Asana and any company that has 2-3 year development cycles could learn a lot from MetaLab.