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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 tonypham »

SoftTalker wrote: post #236

I'll say this. Without being critical of this tool, over 30 years of involvement with software projects, I have found that good project management is a result of a good project manager, not the software tools he or she uses. A good project manager will do a good job even with index cards taped to the wall. A bad project manager will do a poor job even with the best software tools. People who have the aptitude and des…

Agree with you on this: Skills first, tools later. Nevertheless, great tools do help. Great PM skills and the RIGHT tools would be the best combination.

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

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Post by tonypham »

karmakaze wrote: post #237

I haven't tried the app yet and wanted to make sure it had one deal breaker feature: does it integrate with Github issues/PRs? When something goes wrong, I look at the code, recent changes to it, and the discussion that happened in writing that code. I'm not interested in anything that washes its hands of scope when the item is marked done. I want easy ways of getting back to all that data long after it's marked done…

Github integration is not available at the moment, but we do plan to add it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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

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Post by tonypham »

trentnix wrote: post #297

As someone whose team just got bitten - again - by Jira descriptions being overwritten by an unwitting user with unsaved changes, I feel you. I just can’t imagine why it isn’t easy to recover a previous description and its formatting. Jira solves the larger collaboration problems, but blows it on the small stuff. I spent the next hour fuming and imagining how it would work if it was done right (i.e. the way I thought…

Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.

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

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Post by rattray »

enra wrote: post #289
philippz wrote: post #71

Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on flights, I'm often offline; while traveling, I'm often offline. Offline capabilities are often neglected.

We built Linear( https://linear.app ) to be offline first from the beginning. It’s kind of hard to do later. It’s architected in a way that client syncs the data, all the actions happen locally and then delta packets are synced back to the server. This also makes the app really fast because the client doesn’t have to wait for the network to complete the action.

Thank you for building Linear the way you have! So snappy in so many ways.

I think it could be interesting to see Linear add personal/private TODO support of some kind… like everyone gets a TODO list that is mostly a view of your linear tickets with each as a bullet point in a document (similar to when you mention them in a Notion checklist doc) but where you can also add other items which are just text (and/or entries in a personal/private linear space)

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

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Post by escot »

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…

You could try TreeAge for mapping out probabilities: https://www.treeage.com/

And just as a plug, I made https://www.knotend.com which is a keyboard-centric flowchart editor you can use to map dependencies. Im working in adding computation and probability like you say.

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

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Post by bluekite2000 »

tonypham wrote: post #276
vsri wrote: post #267

Recovering marketer from the productivity space here. Your product looks great. Here's my two cents on the "positioning" dicussion happening: the copy on your "Our story" page reads like most other productivity apps out there. Sorry to be so blunt, but it's generic, buzzwordy, and you can swap your company name out for any other company. > That's why we decided to build XXXXX — an all-in-one work management software…

Thanks so much for your invaluable feedback and suggestions. We're tech guys, not marketers, so we find positioning really challenging at the moment. Thanks again for taking the time to give us some GREAT advice.

Congrats on the launch. Is there an email I can contact you for private questions?

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

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Post by acqbu »

tonypham wrote: post #208
acqbu wrote: post #186

Very nice, I'm impressed! Seriously considering purchasing lifetime access. Any plans to add dark mode? And why does it default to 'list view' every time I click on 'my tasks'? I want to see the board by default.

The dark mode is in progress now, and it'll be available in about 2 weeks. The autosave view is on the roadmap and not available yet. Basically, the app will automatically save your last view.

That's great, thanks for taking the time to reply to me.

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

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Post by Telemakhos »

Closi wrote: post #270
Telemakhos wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For todos you could just use an iCalendar file full of VTODOs [1]. It's a shame that the iCalendar standard is poorly and incompletely implemented even in calendar programs and almost always missing from organizer programs that are basically todo lists. [1] https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-6-2-to-do-compone...

In reality this looks far too basic to actually be a todo spec for a reasonable productivity app. ie basic functionality I personally look for that I don’t think this would support would include: * Projects with hierarchies * Reminder dates * Tags and contexts * Multi-Step tasks

Hierarchcies are handled by 3.2.15 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545), and I suspect that could be leveraged to handle multi-step tasks; reminder dates are handled by VALARM in 3.6.6 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.6.6). Tags could be stored in comment properties (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.8.1....), but there's probably a better way already in the spec, which also includes support for extension by adding non-standard properties (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.8.8....).

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

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Post by crsAbtEvrthng »

enra wrote: post #289
philippz wrote: post #71

Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on flights, I'm often offline; while traveling, I'm often offline. Offline capabilities are often neglected.

We built Linear( https://linear.app ) to be offline first from the beginning. It’s kind of hard to do later. It’s architected in a way that client syncs the data, all the actions happen locally and then delta packets are synced back to the server. This also makes the app really fast because the client doesn’t have to wait for the network to complete the action.

I love linear but your advertised "offline mode" is not what I would expect it to be. If I open the Mac app when I'm offline I just get a blank window and have no access to any of my data or a window telling me "Unknown Error loading your workspace data". So I have to login once and keep the app open before I go offline. If I close the app while being offline and reopen it without internet connection I won't have access to any of my data. This is sadly killing the app for me. Is this expected behaviour? Just a "read only" mode of the last state I had when last logged in would be enough for me.
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