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Ask HN: Anyone recall a simple project dashboard web app seen here last year?

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Last year a startup was discussed here offering an incredibly simple shared tasks web app. I think it had a charcoal background.

The idea was a single page a team could glance at to see what the current tasks or priorities are. There may also have been an activity stream for individuals' updates, though I don't recall for sure.

This was not a full project collaboration tool like http://www.nozbe.com, and far simpler than even https://taskant.com/.

It was more like a pinboard of note cards of what a team should be working on.

The minimum viable product aspect and black background stuck with me, but I can't recall the name or even search terms to look for it.

Any ideas what web app I'm thinking of?

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evanwillms
The charcoal background made me think of Geckoboard (http://www.geckoboard.com/), but that's more of a dashboard metrics visualizer than a task list.
Terretta
The feel was like that, but with generous whitespace (blackspace?) and room for just a handful of items, useful for glanceable overall prioritization.

Thanks for the reminder on Geckoboard, another project can make good use of it.

jcr 

    Maybe Flow.io ?
Flow.io: Lean project management based on kanban. Please review. (flow.io) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1374303
Terretta
Almost!

I see I commented in that thread, and I recall looking at a number of "kanban" style web apps. If I can't find the one I'm looking for, one of these may be able to be adapted, so thank you very much for finding that.

The one with the charcoal background was even simpler, and I think it was shown here later in the year, late summer or fall.

jcr
I'm not sure it will help, but it's a whole lot better than me guessing... The following is the query used to find flow.io. There's (about) 59 matches.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&pws=0&sa...

Terretta
Thanks for reminding about site:, I'm reviewing all the threads mentioning kanban in case it's one of those.

If I do find it, I will update this thread.