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Show HN: Due.work – Simplify your work, to-do's and communications

27 points by robins73 7y ago

Hello Everyone! I am Robins Gupta, founder of Due.Work (https://www.due.work/). About 3 months ago we launched Due.work in beta (which was previously known as Birtly) with the mission to simplify the way people work together in a team. Today we have 1000+ (startup and business) using our system to manage their daily work and projects. Due.work was created out of frustration when I and my co-founder(Ravi) were working on our first startup (Snaphy Labs) helping startups build Mobile and Web Apps for their business. We were struggling with having a single tool by which we can manage all our clients, their requirements and work. Some tool like Jira was too complex to be used by all of our teams while some like trello was too simple and good but things would be used to get messier always when we had more than 50-60 tasks present on board at a time. Our goal while creating yet another project management software was to create a tool that would be very simple to use and also would serve as a distraction-free medium where we can focus on one task at a time without getting distracted by another task present in todo's list so that to increase the overall productivity of our work. To achieve that we ended up having divided each project into 4 different pages. 1. Home (All Tasks) 2. My Tasks (Only those tasks which are assigned to me ) 3. Today (Tasks which needs to be completed today only) 4. Next7Days (Tasks which needs to be completed in next 7 days) Further to make things more user-friendly to each user we have divided each of these pages into 3 seperate views ( List, Board, Timeline ). It has many more other features that I haven't mentioned above like communication, Activities, web push functionality so that one can get all updates without even opening an email or website. We have also worked on pricing and decided to offer flat pricing like basecamp but much more affordable. We are super excited to launch ourselves on HN and also, eager to get your feedback on the Due.work: https://due.work/get-started/

clay_the_ripper 7y ago
Hello, looks interesting! I am a currently user of basecamp, could you tell me why I might want to switch? (Other than price, I don’t really care about price I care about the right tool). Cheers!
- robins73 7y ago
  Hello, First of all, basecamp is great software but its limitations come with the simplicity of the tool. There are many reasons but the top one which I think for which you want to switch is by using Due.Work your can plan and organize your tasks very easily even if your projects start getting bigger. By using Due.Work, All of the team working on a project can have his own style of managing his work for example a Project Manager spends more time analyzing the overall project progress and writing new tasks thus a "timeline view" will be more favourable to him similarly a designer or a developer in a team might be concerned with his tasks only thus he just need to open "today tasks" with "list or board view" of his choice and the system will keep remembering everyone's choice of style of work but in Basecamp it enforces the same style of management throughout the team. Basecamp lacks some very basic features of project management like a Timeline view which is a must needed tool to analyse the overall progress/direction of the project. In short Due.Work is similar to basecamp in simplicity but has more features which are crucial for a better project management.
_AzMoo 7y ago
I've been having the same problems with a project management tool. Almost all of them are either too simple or too complex. This looks like it might fill that gap. I signed up and wanted to ask questions about what features were available, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to contact support. "Help" simply takes me to a video which is not very helpful. I will ask here instead. I have a single team working on many different projects. Each project needs its own individual tasks and timelines, but I would like to see a consolidated timeline which crosses projects. Is that available, or do you have plans to make that available?
- robins73 7y ago
  Hello, In Due.Work we have a project at a top-level. According to your requirements, you need a view where you can manage multiple projects in timeline and analyze the dates of tasks and overall projects. Yes, it is available you just have to treat Due.Work's "section" as your "project" alias. Just create several sections name as your project names and start writing tasks. Now you can easily manage all your projects in your one timeline plus you can further arrange your tasks using labels or status and play with it in several views. Due.Work's Project is a top-level entity and can hold as many as 15k to 20k tasks inside one project very easily. We have a chat button on the bottom right of each page where you can chat with us and ask us any questions right away.
- cityzen 7y ago
  Have you looked at getflow.com?
treelovinhippie 7y ago
Fixed price instead of per user is refreshing, though sadly I imagine you'll struggle to monetize under that model.
- robins73 7y ago
  By targetting fixed price we are making sure we have our same priorities over all our customers and thus we will be able to give better customer support to all. Also, We wont be targetting big enterprises so we can always have a choice of improving our product not by just adding more and more features like other typical enterprise software but making it more simpler and user-friendly always. At last, maintaining our system simpler will help us targetting masses(SMBs). I agree the Fixed price is hard to monetize but companies like Todoist have fixed pricing model and still able to have valuations near to about $800 million.
seddin 7y ago
Love the design, so clean and clear, any comments on the tech stack you are using ?
- robins73 7y ago
  We are using react, redux, graphql and mongo
ReD_CoDE 7y ago
Does anyone want to build this [Progile] as open-source? It's the combination of Product Roadmap + Waterfall + Agile So will solve the majority of problems you face in your projects [Progile] https://github.com/EAzari/Progile https://github.com/EAzari/Progile
bhargav 7y ago
Switching tools like this is a giant feat for companies. Many have some tools in place with data that would need to be moved over. It would be good to invest in "import" tools/features and speak of them on your landing page. I would at least ensure that you support importing from JIRA.
- robins73 7y ago
  Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, importing is the best feature we need to have integrated. Will do it soon.

27 points by robins73 7y ago

clay_the_ripper 7y ago

Hello, looks interesting! I am a currently user of basecamp, could you tell me why I might want to switch? (Other than price, I don’t really care about price I care about the right tool). Cheers!

robins73 7y ago
Hello, First of all, basecamp is great software but its limitations come with the simplicity of the tool. There are many reasons but the top one which I think for which you want to switch is by using Due.Work your can plan and organize your tasks very easily even if your projects start getting bigger. By using Due.Work, All of the team working on a project can have his own style of managing his work for example a Project Manager spends more time analyzing the overall project progress and writing new tasks thus a "timeline view" will be more favourable to him similarly a designer or a developer in a team might be concerned with his tasks only thus he just need to open "today tasks" with "list or board view" of his choice and the system will keep remembering everyone's choice of style of work but in Basecamp it enforces the same style of management throughout the team. Basecamp lacks some very basic features of project management like a Timeline view which is a must needed tool to analyse the overall progress/direction of the project. In short Due.Work is similar to basecamp in simplicity but has more features which are crucial for a better project management.

_AzMoo 7y ago

I've been having the same problems with a project management tool. Almost all of them are either too simple or too complex. This looks like it might fill that gap. I signed up and wanted to ask questions about what features were available, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to contact support. "Help" simply takes me to a video which is not very helpful. I will ask here instead. I have a single team working on many different projects. Each project needs its own individual tasks and timelines, but I would like to see a consolidated timeline which crosses projects. Is that available, or do you have plans to make that available?

robins73 7y ago
Hello, In Due.Work we have a project at a top-level. According to your requirements, you need a view where you can manage multiple projects in timeline and analyze the dates of tasks and overall projects. Yes, it is available you just have to treat Due.Work's "section" as your "project" alias. Just create several sections name as your project names and start writing tasks. Now you can easily manage all your projects in your one timeline plus you can further arrange your tasks using labels or status and play with it in several views. Due.Work's Project is a top-level entity and can hold as many as 15k to 20k tasks inside one project very easily. We have a chat button on the bottom right of each page where you can chat with us and ask us any questions right away.
cityzen 7y ago
Have you looked at getflow.com?

treelovinhippie 7y ago

Fixed price instead of per user is refreshing, though sadly I imagine you'll struggle to monetize under that model.

robins73 7y ago
By targetting fixed price we are making sure we have our same priorities over all our customers and thus we will be able to give better customer support to all. Also, We wont be targetting big enterprises so we can always have a choice of improving our product not by just adding more and more features like other typical enterprise software but making it more simpler and user-friendly always. At last, maintaining our system simpler will help us targetting masses(SMBs). I agree the Fixed price is hard to monetize but companies like Todoist have fixed pricing model and still able to have valuations near to about $800 million.

seddin 7y ago

Love the design, so clean and clear, any comments on the tech stack you are using ?

robins73 7y ago
We are using react, redux, graphql and mongo

ReD_CoDE 7y ago

Does anyone want to build this [Progile] as open-source? It's the combination of Product Roadmap + Waterfall + Agile So will solve the majority of problems you face in your projects [Progile] https://github.com/EAzari/Progile https://github.com/EAzari/Progile

bhargav 7y ago

Switching tools like this is a giant feat for companies. Many have some tools in place with data that would need to be moved over. It would be good to invest in "import" tools/features and speak of them on your landing page. I would at least ensure that you support importing from JIRA.

robins73 7y ago
Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, importing is the best feature we need to have integrated. Will do it soon.