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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

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Post by mrshoe »

awa wrote: post #10
mrshoe wrote: post #5

I'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...

Checkout this thing I made posts are generally popular at HN... coz they cater to all the startup and hacker mentality.

Sure, but they rarely go to #1 and I've never seen one leap frog a pg article as quickly as this one did. Could be perfectly normal, but it just seemed anomalous to me.

Maybe Flash-based gantt charts are the new hotness. ;-)

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by rantfoil »

mrshoe wrote: post #5

I'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...

I voted it up because its a pain point that I experienced recently. I suspect anyone who tries to map out a schedule for a project has in the past searched in vain for something like this.

I ended up buying OmniPlan. But maybe that's not necessary anymore! Good luck to the team, it certainly looks useful and promising.

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by crcarlson »

jamesbkel wrote: post #28

Looks pretty good, I should have a chance to properly try it out when another project starts up for me in a few weeks. One minor issue: the horizontal zoom is a little counterintuitive. The + button increases the number of weeks shown, effectively zooming out. The reverse for -. Not a major issue, but it could throw someone off, especially because the vertical zoom behaves in a standard + to zoom in and - to zoom out…

Great point, I think we can reverse the horizontal Zoom and hardly anyone would be annoyed. We would love to hear about your experience and take your suggestions for improvement when you get to your next project.

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by m4dc4p »

thorax wrote: post #8

Video 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…

Is your video demo hosted on YouTube? I couldn't load it and my company blocks YouTube. If you are targetting the corporate market consider hosting the video on Vimeo or some other less-popular video sharing site.

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by crcarlson »

nhebb wrote: post #30

As an alternate to expanding a task group, you might consider a drill down that just shows the sub-tasks. In the video you were able to make them fit, but that not be the case for a more complex projects. From both marketing and SEO perspectives, I wouldn't limit the product overview to a video. You should add a page with screen shots, features, etc.

Good thoughts, thanks.

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by crcarlson »

m4dc4p wrote: post #35
thorax wrote: post #8

Video 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…

Is your video demo hosted on YouTube? I couldn't load it and my company blocks YouTube. If you are targetting the corporate market consider hosting the video on Vimeo or some other less-popular video sharing site.

Thanks for the feedback. We are hosting on YouTube which is likely the problem. We will consider hosting on another site.

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by dugmartin »

neilk wrote: post #26
vishaldpatel wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Flash apps tend to crash a lot. Although some HTML apps have this problem too, Flash is invariably laggy. Flash doesn't work well on Linux, and many of the people in my world run Linux desktops. (And some won't run proprietary software on principle.) The UI of Flash apps is always some homegrown awfulness that tries hard but is never as intuitive or responsive as native UI, and not even as good as web browser control…

No, Flash apps only tend to crash on Linux and it is slow on Macs. So ignore that 0.1% of the paying online Gannt chart user market and you'll be fine.

Flash works great on Windows, and unlike HTML5 it works in IE6 which is what your market is still probably running on their corporate network.

No flaming intended, btw. I have a PC, Mac and a Linux netbook running right now on my desk. Chrome tabs die all the time in Linux when running Flash and my Mac beachballs sometimes running large swfs. My PC browsers (FF and IE) have never puked once over Flash.

Re: Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

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Post by matt1 »

jmillerinc wrote: post #4

Probably just a coincidence, but - http://gantto.com/ http://preceden.com/

Preceden's my work and if their design was based on mine, I don't mind at all. I tend to base my initial designs on sites that look aesthetically pleasing to me and then adjust it over time to be my own. The dark blue header, for example, was inspired by http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/. I'm sure they're doing something similar.

Site looks great though--wish you guys the best.

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