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Show HN: Crocagile – Web-based agile development tool

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Re: Show HN: Crocagile – Web-based agile development tool

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Post by pan69 »

I'm just a nobody but these are my 2 cents for what it's worth.

1) I like the name.

2) Your pricing seems strange. I would make it $15 per month which includes 5 users and charge $2.50 for every extra user.

3) Regardless of the features you have, your product doesn't feel polished enough for me to take it serious.

4) I will be holding this up to a Jira, why should I use your product instead? I.e; who is your audience?

Re: Show HN: Crocagile – Web-based agile development tool

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Post by pbreit »

Hate to say it but, it's not very good. I can't imagine anyone using it. At first it sounded like it might be full blown project management like Basecamp, Jira, etc. But it's actually just really really basic To Do lists. Project/task management is such a crucial tool for a company/organization that there's just no way they are going to opt to run their business on this. All the Learn and Share stuff is a major distraction with little value. The user experience is very rough both aesthetically and functionally. The "no email required" callout is odd as that makes very little sense. There's just an overall lack of focus and quality.

My advice would be to pick a much narrower use case and really nailing it. Instead this looks like the lowest of lowest common denominators and I would advise anyone to stay away.

Edit: the videos seem to show a lot more stuff than what I was able to find. Perhaps because I wasn't able to update? (error message said I have to "PUT" to a URL). I didn't see where the Trello-style post-it board was.

Edit: It looks like you're trying to be Jira, Trello, Yammer, Dropbox, Slack? It looks like sort of a Winchester Mystery House of endless cranking on product features with no real rhyme or reason or cohesion for any of it. That is a clear recipe for failure.

Re: Show HN: Crocagile – Web-based agile development tool

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Post by jlarocco »

Wow, rough crowd.

I like the interface. It's like a mix between Jira and Trello. More focused than Jira, with more structure than Trello.

I don't really like Jira because of its kitchen sink approach. It tries to be everything to everybody with endless customization and options. It gives fifty ways to do everything and there's a different way to do any particular thing on every single page. As a developer, it annoys the hell out of me by making me spend way more time than I want to navigating through project management software. Not having all of the features of Jira isn't necessarily a bad thing, IMO.

I'm not sure what people are expecting when they say the site doesn't feel "polished enough." It works fine for me, and is as polished as any web app, AFAICT.

On the negative side, I think I get what you're saying about the pricing, but it is a little confusing. One idea would be to make it free for personal projects, but charge for collaboration, similar to how BitBucket does it.

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