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Hey HN, thanks for checking out Portabella.

To keep it short Portabella is different from other project management software in two key ways:

- your core data is end-to-end encrypted [1]

- we don't contain any third party trackers [2]

Portabella came about after working at a privacy focused company for a few years. I realised that there _is_ a market for privacy centered products, they're just hard to find or not usable. We're looking to provide an experience on par with current project management solutions in a privacy preserving way.

The bigger overarching goal of Portabella would be to enable consumers/businesses to demand more of their tools. Recently we've seen privacy preserving tools/apps explode in popularity which we're really happy about, and hope to contribute to this wave of change.

1. https://portabella.io/blog/2020/06/02/what-do-we-store/ 2. https://portabella.io/blog/2020/09/10/privacy-on-the-web/

1. The idea behind the product is excellent. Since you are already pitching to the privacy-minded crowd, consider adding a fully offline mode with an optional sync to your server storage?

2. This is an UX-centric product, so it could really use a fully-functional signup-free demo, not just a read-only version of it. Being able to play with everything without the friction of needing to sign-up is a huge plus.

3. There are smaller UI issues that somewhat spoil the first impression - https://i.imgur.com/cC4M6Oy.gif - this is Firefox on Windows.

Break a leg.