Site looks really nice (although I'm getting tired of all this cutesy stuff) - but I found the horizontal scrolling on the main project view a bit strange. And no drag-and-drop?
It looks like you guys have also cloned Slack as yet another feature. I bet that's a huge engineering burden to clone something that everybody is already using - might want to just drop that feature, make a Slack integration and get back to focusing on your One Defining Thing.
Hi Mizza, there is no editing on public projects that are shown as demos. And because drag & drop is editing it is disabled there. We have a slack integration already :) It's a good advice, we will see how things go.
I find that swooping sound in the kanban board kind of weird. And when i drag a card it kind of, disappears for a second then appears in the new column?
Very well designed, one "issue" however is when I open cards there is a small delay before the card title is centered, it opens to the extreme left of the modal as if it's waiting for styling.
I was going to use Trello for something but I would be happy to give this a shot instead, I did want something more customizable and this seems to be fit that bill (I signed up and everything).
This looks nice. Tough space with established players, but you have some UI ideas here that are better than your competitors. I really like the "outline" view of the boards in list view. Impressive work.
One tiny bit of UX feedback... on the pricing page the slider and what the slider changes are too far apart. It took me a while of sliding to figure out it was changing the user count. At first glance it looked like it was changing price (and why would I want to slide price up!)
Also, I'm confused why that one guy is standing off to the right in the homepage graphic. Is that supposed to be me (the manager) just sitting there drinking coffee while the team does real work? :-P
The signup experience was great! I liked the walkthrough. I'd recommend focusing a bit more on front-end performance though. Dragging cards, for example, was a quite sluggish. Especially compared to Trello. Since that's the thing that we do the most on a storyboard, it makes me want to use your product a bit less. You're also pushing >3MB of JS to the client. Consider trimming that down a bit.
I noticed a few typos here and there (submitted corrections using Send Feedback) but overall, I like it.
There've been a few services I've tried to use that blended different styles (To Do, Kanban etc) but I found most of them a bit lacking.
I guess it's one of those things where I kind of would want everything including the kitchen sink (or in this case, time tracking, Github integration and so on.
Anyway, I look forward to trying it out with some personal projects
Hehe for what it's worth as a Perl developer, I read that as ".ProjectManagement" but I can see your point. At ZipRecruiter we're launching stuff all the time. Builtinperl.com lists some more people chugging on quietly with Perl :).
As for the submission itself, it looks pretty good though I'm having a few navigation difficulties on my phone. My mom has been looking for a one stop todo/task/chat/trello solution so it's pretty timely that this showed up. I'm not sure that copying Slack's UI is the most cohesive way to integrate chat into the App but I can see why that would seem like an appealing choice.
That was the association we were looking for :) As people that have nothing to do with perl .pm for us is short from "project management" and also we like how short our domain is.
Very nice work on the site and the app. I understand the handy features it has that Trello hasn't but am not sure if it has enough to convince me to shell out another $30/month subscription for something close that we have free now. But that might be just me!
1) Did you just "build it and hope they will come" because it looks like a lot of work?
2) How many of you worked on it and how long did it take you; the finish seems very high (with a few very small weirdnesses - e.g. it stopped allowing me to add new items to a checklist for some reason until I reloaded, in safari the tab crashes when switching from Kanabn view to List view).
3) What's it built in, backend and frontend wise?
4) Do you have funding?
5) I've always wanted Trello to allow me stacked lists within one column for various things (like mental models -> http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/), probably low on your list but for me it would be exceptional.
Wow, this is so much better than Trello. You implement exactly what's missing: a "planning" view (Trello's card view sucks so much) and task tracking. Congratulations.
However, in order to jump there I'd need an import/export feature. Import because I can't manually add the hundreds of cards and comments I have in Trello. Export because, well, you're a startup and I want to know that if you shut down in the future at least I can export my cards and not lose data.
Are those things planned?
Edit: As general feedback, what I'm missing the most from the product are keyboard shortcuts and a sidebar to move quickly between projects.
That is a good point! We have import from Trello, but no exports yet. I will add that to our product backlog.
We will add more extensive keyboard support in a future update.
Hi uffo, where's the import feature? I couldn't find it.
By the way, I really liked your onboarding. Ora is more complex than other tools (since it is many tools in one) but you make a good job of explaining stuff without being too much "in your face"
This tool looks really nice, great design, although the feature set is very similar to Nostromo.io or Trello. Curious to find out what's the difference.
On your pricing page it mentions 'basic' add-ons and integrations and 'advanced' add-ons and integrations. What are these? I cannot find any other reference to these on your site.
Some future advanced features will be available only to the paid plans. Right now everything is available to everyone. Main restriction in place is the number of allowed users on a free project. (3)
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 83.6 ms ] threadIt looks like you guys have also cloned Slack as yet another feature. I bet that's a huge engineering burden to clone something that everybody is already using - might want to just drop that feature, make a Slack integration and get back to focusing on your One Defining Thing.
I find that swooping sound in the kanban board kind of weird. And when i drag a card it kind of, disappears for a second then appears in the new column?
I was going to use Trello for something but I would be happy to give this a shot instead, I did want something more customizable and this seems to be fit that bill (I signed up and everything).
Thanks!
One tiny bit of UX feedback... on the pricing page the slider and what the slider changes are too far apart. It took me a while of sliding to figure out it was changing the user count. At first glance it looked like it was changing price (and why would I want to slide price up!)
Also, I'm confused why that one guy is standing off to the right in the homepage graphic. Is that supposed to be me (the manager) just sitting there drinking coffee while the team does real work? :-P
There've been a few services I've tried to use that blended different styles (To Do, Kanban etc) but I found most of them a bit lacking.
I guess it's one of those things where I kind of would want everything including the kitchen sink (or in this case, time tracking, Github integration and so on.
Anyway, I look forward to trying it out with some personal projects
I know that's goofy and utterly subjective, but it was still my initial thought.
As for the submission itself, it looks pretty good though I'm having a few navigation difficulties on my phone. My mom has been looking for a one stop todo/task/chat/trello solution so it's pretty timely that this showed up. I'm not sure that copying Slack's UI is the most cohesive way to integrate chat into the App but I can see why that would seem like an appealing choice.
We have many ideas for the future, follow us on social media to be the first that hears about them.
I'd love to know the following things:
1) Did you just "build it and hope they will come" because it looks like a lot of work?
2) How many of you worked on it and how long did it take you; the finish seems very high (with a few very small weirdnesses - e.g. it stopped allowing me to add new items to a checklist for some reason until I reloaded, in safari the tab crashes when switching from Kanabn view to List view).
3) What's it built in, backend and frontend wise?
4) Do you have funding?
5) I've always wanted Trello to allow me stacked lists within one column for various things (like mental models -> http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/), probably low on your list but for me it would be exceptional.
Thanks!
1) More like build it and post in HN :D (just kidding) But we are a product oriented company so we definitely do more development than marketing.
2) We are a small team of 5, it took us ruffly 2 years of development to get Ora where it is today.
3) Backend is python frontend is angular.
4) We are self funded our other app http://protosketch.io pays the bills at the moment.
5) This seems pretty cool, I will add it as a feature request.
However, in order to jump there I'd need an import/export feature. Import because I can't manually add the hundreds of cards and comments I have in Trello. Export because, well, you're a startup and I want to know that if you shut down in the future at least I can export my cards and not lose data.
Are those things planned?
Edit: As general feedback, what I'm missing the most from the product are keyboard shortcuts and a sidebar to move quickly between projects.
By the way, I really liked your onboarding. Ora is more complex than other tools (since it is many tools in one) but you make a good job of explaining stuff without being too much "in your face"
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I had wanted something like this for a really long time.
Should not be a Enterprise only feature, it shouldn't be a feature at all it should be standard.