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Good q, thanks! > There are a ton of project management tools out there, why buy Codetree? Was there something specific about the business that stood out to yo

by kareemm 10y ago

Good q, thanks! > There are a ton of project management tools out there, why buy Codetree? Was there something specific about the business that stood out to you? We believe that in big markets like project management there's lots of room for many successful companies (depending on your definition of success). We know and like the issue tracking space since my partners and I have been devs for 15y each. But why Codetree? Because it was available, is a good product, and was the right price :) It's hard to find the intersection of those things and we looked at different businesses for about a year. > I imagine when you buy a business you believe there are things you can do that will increase the value of the business. What are the top things you think you'll be able to do that were not already being done? Ultimately the goal is to help software teams make and ship better software. Right now the things we're focusing on are: 1. Talk to customers and improve the product. A good product matters, especially with developer tools. 2. Build out new marketing channels. Without new signups, it doesn't matter how good our product is :)

chrisgeoghegan 10y ago
Kareemm, thanks for the quick response! Agreed that in a big market there are lots of players. But even in markets with lots of players, each player will have some sort of advantage over others. Do you see anything like this existing in Codetree or is this something your going to have to work at to develop?
- kareemm 10y ago
  Good q. In our experience a dev tool is right for a team if the tool fits the team's workflow. If you want to customize the heck out of what you do, use JIRA. If you're hardcore Scrum, use Pivotal. etc Codetree's biggest differentiator from the large market is that it has a two-way sync with GitHub. But there are lots of companies who do that. So if you're looking for a tool that sits on GH then we may get a look. To differentiate from the rest of the GH tools we have some feature-level differentiators, the biggest being that we have a table view of your issues. From an information density perspective there's no beating a table. Feature-level differentiators scare us though - we definitely need to work harder to make Codetree a product that's substantially different from the everything else that's out there.

by kareemm 10y ago

chrisgeoghegan 10y ago

Kareemm, thanks for the quick response! Agreed that in a big market there are lots of players. But even in markets with lots of players, each player will have some sort of advantage over others. Do you see anything like this existing in Codetree or is this something your going to have to work at to develop?

kareemm 10y ago
Good q. In our experience a dev tool is right for a team if the tool fits the team's workflow. If you want to customize the heck out of what you do, use JIRA. If you're hardcore Scrum, use Pivotal. etc Codetree's biggest differentiator from the large market is that it has a two-way sync with GitHub. But there are lots of companies who do that. So if you're looking for a tool that sits on GH then we may get a look. To differentiate from the rest of the GH tools we have some feature-level differentiators, the biggest being that we have a table view of your issues. From an information density perspective there's no beating a table. Feature-level differentiators scare us though - we definitely need to work harder to make Codetree a product that's substantially different from the everything else that's out there.