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Asana’s Rise to a $900M Valuation

24 points by smalter 9y ago

tombrm 9y ago
Glad to hear that Asana is doing well financially. It is at the center of my GTD-ish productivity setup since Microsoft decided to shut down Wunderlist. Really don't want to move all my stuff again...
sudhirj 9y ago
I actually thought they were dead in slack’s wake. Ironically, I think asanas model is a better way for a team to collaborate than slack. With asana or other systems, the focus is on an issue or checklist or Story or some other piece of work. With slack, it’s just rambling, ad hoc discussions, arguments without vocal / body language context, random thread hijacking and hardly any way to consolidate information.
- jbob2000 9y ago
  What?? Slack and Asana are completely different products. Once is for chatting, the other for project management.
  - jorts 9y ago
    Perhaps it's because they both want to "kill email"? To me they definitely feel like products in separate categories.
  - davidivadavid 9y ago
    Which both can be put in a larger "collaboration" category. Categories have fuzzy boundaries.
thepratt 9y ago
Have always had problems with asana. It was always to limited for _my_ use-case (as a developer), and how other teams I've worked with did use it was awful. asana lacks granularity, or anything meaningful in terms of enforceable process. To me, asana is a glorified to-do list, not a project management tool. Their reliability was awful as well, having project-based outages for ~10 mins, multiple times a day wasn't leaving a good taste in my mouth.
- 23andwalnut 9y ago
  Curious about what ended up working for you? What project management app are you using now?
  - thepratt 9y ago
    At that company we moved onto blossom.io for 2 months to see how we'd fit. It works well, more of what we want, but we had problems with updates/collaboration (visibility)/issue linking/etc. We worked actively with their product team, but feature delivery was a little slow - would reconsider going back though. We moved onto YouTrack afterwards - afaik, they're still there. Where I currently work, we use JIRA.
- schuellerpa 9y ago
  You can try out https://zenkit.com https://zenkit.com. Zenkit might fit more to your needs. More data views and way more flexible than Asana.
  - thepratt 9y ago
    Cheers, will have to investigate.
jcsnv 9y ago
Glad to see Asana isn't going anywhere. I'm a power user for my personal TODOs and would hate having to move it to another platform.
- kapauldo 9y ago
  Do you pay?
kapauldo 9y ago
Asana and trello are awesome free tools. They're terrible paid tools. This is an irrational valuation.

24 points by smalter 9y ago

Glad to hear that Asana is doing well financially. It is at the center of my GTD-ish productivity setup since Microsoft decided to shut down Wunderlist. Really don't want to move all my stuff again...

sudhirj 9y ago

I actually thought they were dead in slack’s wake. Ironically, I think asanas model is a better way for a team to collaborate than slack. With asana or other systems, the focus is on an issue or checklist or Story or some other piece of work. With slack, it’s just rambling, ad hoc discussions, arguments without vocal / body language context, random thread hijacking and hardly any way to consolidate information.

jbob2000 9y ago
What?? Slack and Asana are completely different products. Once is for chatting, the other for project management.
- jorts 9y ago
  Perhaps it's because they both want to "kill email"? To me they definitely feel like products in separate categories.
- davidivadavid 9y ago
  Which both can be put in a larger "collaboration" category. Categories have fuzzy boundaries.

thepratt 9y ago

Have always had problems with asana. It was always to limited for _my_ use-case (as a developer), and how other teams I've worked with did use it was awful. asana lacks granularity, or anything meaningful in terms of enforceable process. To me, asana is a glorified to-do list, not a project management tool. Their reliability was awful as well, having project-based outages for ~10 mins, multiple times a day wasn't leaving a good taste in my mouth.

23andwalnut 9y ago
Curious about what ended up working for you? What project management app are you using now?
- thepratt 9y ago
  At that company we moved onto blossom.io for 2 months to see how we'd fit. It works well, more of what we want, but we had problems with updates/collaboration (visibility)/issue linking/etc. We worked actively with their product team, but feature delivery was a little slow - would reconsider going back though. We moved onto YouTrack afterwards - afaik, they're still there. Where I currently work, we use JIRA.
schuellerpa 9y ago
You can try out https://zenkit.com https://zenkit.com. Zenkit might fit more to your needs. More data views and way more flexible than Asana.
- thepratt 9y ago
  Cheers, will have to investigate.

jcsnv 9y ago

Glad to see Asana isn't going anywhere. I'm a power user for my personal TODOs and would hate having to move it to another platform.

kapauldo 9y ago
Do you pay?

kapauldo 9y ago

Asana and trello are awesome free tools. They're terrible paid tools. This is an irrational valuation.