Upbase
Productivity
project management
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
43 positive, 73 neutral or asking, 15 mixed, 47 critical, out of 178 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 14 for, 11 againstDesign: 6 for, 4 againstPricing: 6 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 9 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 7 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, polished UI
From 2 comments
Very polished, I'm impressed! It seems like everyone ends up recreating a PM or todo tool at some point. It makes me wonder if there could be a world where we have a standard…
cliffwarden on HNI love the clean UI. All the best!
tonypham on HN
Objections
Per-user pricing is unattractive
From 1 comment
Per user per month = no thanks.
system2 on HN
Lacks offline support
From 1 comment
Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on…
philippz on HN
No import or export of data
From 2 comments
Obsidian meets all my (personal productivity / PKM / Tools for Thought) needs for this kind of thing for now and the forseeable future. But I'm happy to share my thoughts as…
chrisweekly on HNNice design! Your features do resonate to me as a contractor because a lot of my clients know very little about computers and sharing them links to Trello, Slack, etc. often…
ArlenBales on HN
Positioning and website copy are unclear
From 2 comments
I would think about your positioning some. You’re marketing this as having “less complexity” which first of all, isn’t going to appeal to people unless they’ve already used the…
twobitshifter on HNRecovering marketer from the productivity space here. Your product looks great. Here's my two cents on the "positioning" dicussion happening: the copy on your "Our story" page…
vsri on HN
Requests
Data import and export
From 2 comments
I got your point! Exporting data is on our roadmap, and it's one of the top priorities since a lot of users are asking for it. So you're not alone here.
tonypham on HNThanks so much for sharing your thoughts. And yes, you're right. Not being able to import/export is a deal breaker for many people who are really interested in Upbase. We'll need…
tonypham on HN
Google Calendar integration
From 2 comments
Due to popular demand, Google Calendar will be our first integration. After that, we'll consider adding more Calendars, like Outlook.
tonypham on HNGoogle Calendar is our top priority on the roadmap. And we aim for 2-way sync.
tonypham on HN
Markdown support throughout
From 2 comments
Does it support Markdown? That's what I find lacking in many of these PM tools - they either use some custom, complicated markup, or wysiwyg, which makes it hard to format text…
laurent123456 on HNCurrently, only the Chat tool supports Markdown. But we do plan to have Markdown all over the place.
tonypham on HN
Offline support
From 2 comments
Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on…
philippz on HNOffline support is costly, and we do not have the resources for it yet. For businesses that have a lot of small customers, offline support is challenging.
tonypham on HN
Questions
Is there a self-hosted version?
From 2 comments
Would be great to have a self-hosted version for the lifetime plan
rrgok on HNSorry, we don't have a self-hosted version now.
tonypham on HN
What is the tech stack?
From 2 comments
Tech stack?
wiseowise on HNMainly Golang and Vuejs.
tonypham on HN
Alternatives named
Trello
From 1 comment
I would think about your positioning some. You’re marketing this as having “less complexity” which first of all, isn’t going to appeal to people unless they’ve already used the…
twobitshifter on HN
ClickUp
From 2 comments
I would think about your positioning some. You’re marketing this as having “less complexity” which first of all, isn’t going to appeal to people unless they’ve already used the…
twobitshifter on HNThanks for your feedback. At the moment, ClickUp does have real-time chat in lists, not global chat, so you can't send one-on-one messages to someone yet. For some people that…
tonypham on HN
Notion
From 1 comment
Upbase has a completely different way of structuring all the tools it has to offer. Each tool has its own place, separated from the others. And that creates clarity. In a…
tonypham on HN
Todoist
From 1 comment
Yes, Todoist and Nirvana work great for personal task management, but not for teams. We want to build a tool for teams that empowers personal productivity.
tonypham on HN
Basecamp
From 1 comment
Basecamp is great for team collaboration, but not so great for task planning/management. It's mainly a team communication platform.
tonypham on HN