I've found Asana to be a much, much nicer product to work with than Jira (at least as a developer, not sure about from the management side.) I genuinely wish them success and hope they're able to grow their marketshare.
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#42I've found Asana to be a much, much nicer product to work with than Jira (at least as a developer, not sure about from the management side.) I genuinely wish them success and hope they're able to grow their marketshare.
Linear.app has nailed the experience IMO. It's simple, fast, developer-first, and has the advanced features you'd want without the bloat. Asana IMO is just too slow performance wise and functions more as a product manager-first tool as opposed to a developer-first tool.
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#435 IPOs (S-1 filings) from Silicon Valley today: - Unity (San Francisco) - Jfrog (Sunnyvale) - Snowflake (San Mateo) - SumoLogic (Redwood City) - Asana (San Francisco)
Record high market, so why not?
Yeah, seems like that. When Covid-19 hit, there were layoffs in AirBnB etc. and everyone was talking about how IPOs will get pushed for future. Seems like all those worries have evaporated considering Tesla is trading at $2000.
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#44I've found Asana to be a much, much nicer product to work with than Jira (at least as a developer, not sure about from the management side.) I genuinely wish them success and hope they're able to grow their marketshare.
Do you have up-to-date experience on both? I ask because, this year is my first time using Jira in 10 years. I was in big corp 10 years ago and we were on Jira and it was a disaster to have to use. UI was a mess and it constantly went down or went slow (big corp; self-hosted.). My current startup started using Jira Cloud recently and I found it to be much better than my past experience, and better than Asana. I last…
This was about 2 years ago - at that time I found both Asana and Jira to be similarly slow, so kind of a wash in that regard. But it was corporate self-hosted Jira, so perhaps Jira Cloud is a smoother experience.
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#45Wow, this is a torrent of IPOs today. Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel. Aside from that, I'm surprised how much it costs Asana on engineering R&D, for essentially a ticket management system. How does a team grow to ~300+ developers ($89M R&D) to figure out how to attach PDFs and videos to tickets, and email people when there's a change in status? (ok yes I'm oversimplify…
Look at Service Now.
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#46While better than Jira in UI, I haven't been able to like Asana as a product for some reason. In my previous company we moved away from Asana to Jira because it seemed PMs and higher management found Jira easier to work with.
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#47Based on a few of the comments on this thread, I wanted to point out that filing an S-1 is not something that you just do overnight. When companies decide to go public it's a lot of work usually involving multiple dedicated teams on the business side. It takes many months and can take over a year.
So while the timing here is interesting, nobody decided on Friday that many well-known tech firms would declare their intent to go public on Monday.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, what is going on at Asana? R&D costs outpacing revenue in the year before IPO really surprises me (from ~54% to ~62%). For comparison, Atlassian went from ~38% to ~36% in the year before IPO.
The thing that drives me absolutely bonkers with Asana (others do this as well) is that the freelancer has to upgrade their "free" account to roughly $70/month to get functionality like seeing a Timeline (think Gantt). Their pricing isn't clear that to upgrade to Premium (to get Timeline) says it's $10.99/month. It's not until you get to the next screen that it tells you it's 5x10.99/month because there is a five per…
I am assuming that's on purpose. For them the number of people on project is proportional to the money they can earn. Why would they cannibalize their revenue by allowing shadow profiles.
Edit: re-read your comment. It seems like you clarified or I missed about the five person being the minimum thing for that.
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#49Wow, this is a torrent of IPOs today. Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel. Aside from that, I'm surprised how much it costs Asana on engineering R&D, for essentially a ticket management system. How does a team grow to ~300+ developers ($89M R&D) to figure out how to attach PDFs and videos to tickets, and email people when there's a change in status? (ok yes I'm oversimplify…
I really don't understand how Asana excels at anything, let alone is a '10x'. They probably need to spend a fortune in marketing just to get people to sign up.
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#50Based on a few of the comments on this thread, I wanted to point out that filing an S-1 is not something that you just do overnight. When companies decide to go public it's a lot of work usually involving multiple dedicated teams on the business side. It takes many months and can take over a year. So while the timing here is interesting, nobody decided on Friday that many well-known tech firms would declare their int…
No, they decided that 6 months ago (or whatever the lead time is), but everyone decided at the same time, for fairly obvious reasons.