92five app
Productivity
project management
SHOW HN2014
135points
81comments
#192of 2,272 in 2014
Top 9%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Performance: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Self-hosted and free, appealing for data control
From 3 comments
I'm really impressed from what I see. Would love an excuse to not spend $200/month on project management software :) I use a very popular SaaS right now but would actually rather…
BorisMelnik on HNFree 5 minute grumpy feedback on the landing page :) Requires Javascript to display anything for no good reason. After enabling it and reloading it takes more than 10 seconds to…
aw3c2 on HNLooks great, has potential: nice design, self hosted, responsive UI, open source. Maybe create a companion offline app for smartphones/tablets that would sync with the server?
jotm on HN
Clean, slick design
From 2 comments
Free 5 minute grumpy feedback on the landing page :) Requires Javascript to display anything for no good reason. After enabling it and reloading it takes more than 10 seconds to…
aw3c2 on HNLooks great, has potential: nice design, self hosted, responsive UI, open source. Maybe create a companion offline app for smartphones/tablets that would sync with the server?
jotm on HN
Objections
Landing page loads very slowly and is heavy
From 3 comments
Took 15 seconds to load the landing page. Honestly, you lost me as a user after the first 5 but I wanted to see the rest of the page. Scrolled to the bottom quickly, had to wait…
notduncansmith on HNIt does really matter - the landing page loads 1.9MB of content. This is easily 10x the size one should expect from a landing page. It's reasonable to assume that the app itself…
notduncansmith on HNIt took 49 seconds for me to load the __landing page__. It would have been done in 3 seconds (which is still an insanely long amount of time) except that this image:…
sharth on HN
Buggy project creation and confusing task screen in local install
From 1 comment
I think this app has potential but after installing a local copy and playing with it for a few minutes there are a few things right off the bat that are a bit of an issue: First,…
tjsix on HN
Lacks discussions feature compared to Basecamp
From 1 comment
I would really love to see some good self-hosted Basecamp killer. This is getting close, but lacks Basecamp's most important feature (at least for me): discussions. This is…
M4v3R on HN
Requests
Add discussions feature
From 1 comment
I would really love to see some good self-hosted Basecamp killer. This is getting close, but lacks Basecamp's most important feature (at least for me): discussions. This is…
M4v3R on HN
Offline companion mobile app that syncs
From 1 comment
Looks great, has potential: nice design, self hosted, responsive UI, open source. Maybe create a companion offline app for smartphones/tablets that would sync with the server?
jotm on HN
Questions
How will the project make money and be sustained?
From 1 comment
The app looks great, but how are you going to make money from this so you can sustain it?
simonswords82 on HN
Which license should it use?
From 2 comments
Free 5 minute grumpy feedback on the landing page :) Requires Javascript to display anything for no good reason. After enabling it and reloading it takes more than 10 seconds to…
aw3c2 on HNIm currently working on something similar, but focused on the tasks more. Its like a mix of a project manager and a timesheets portal. The front page contains your list of active…
calgoo on HN
Alternatives named
Basecamp
From 1 comment
I would really love to see some good self-hosted Basecamp killer. This is getting close, but lacks Basecamp's most important feature (at least for me): discussions. This is…
M4v3R on HN
Scrumdo
From 1 comment
Seems like it's getting overloaded right now as I just get a loading animation for 20+ seconds. I will take a look at this later though. I have been liking scrumdo which also…
newman8r on HN