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I never understood monday.com, since a ton of similar tools area already popular: Asana, all the ones from Atlassian. Monday.com always seemed to re-label know

I never understood monday.com, since a ton of similar tools area already popular: Asana, all the ones from Atlassian. Monday.com always seemed to re-label know practices with their own terminology. What am I missing?

ericcholis 5y ago
I think Flexibility, UX and Marketing.
- Bombthecat 5y ago
  Especially Marketing
nicoburns 5y ago
I got the impression that most existing tools in this space were quite targeting at software development, whereas was taking that model and bringing it to general project delivery. That's just from the their marketing though. I haven't actually used it.
city41 5y ago
They marketed the living heck out of it. For a while I couldn't turn around without seeing a Monday.com ad.
- MentallyRetired 5y ago
  Monday has been stealing from Timelinr (https://timelinr.com https://timelinr.com) for years now. I saw their marketing efforts shoot up around the same time. Looks like it's been paying off for them, but I prefer to support smaller startups, especially when all I need it for is roadmapping.
  - have_faith 5y ago
    From comparing both homepages I get the impression that whatever influence Monday took from Timelinr initially they left them behind long ago. The Timelinr landing page could also do with a lot of work but I think it's mostly the tone of voice that doesn't work well with me personally.
- soperj 5y ago
  I find this weirdly hilarious, because of ad blocking, I'd never heard of this company before this.
  - 0xffff2 5y ago
    Likewise. Based on this thread, I'm going to take it that my ad blocking setup is even more effective than I gave it credit for.
    - Rastonbury 5y ago
      Yeah, I mean it's kind of sobering as well, thinking of all the collective hours spent watching ads when ad blockers are 1-click installs.
- ljm 5y ago
  It was everywhere on the Tube in London after it rebranded from Dapulse, in the middle of the whole Brexit fiasco. It reaffirmed something an old colleague of mine said: everyone in startup tech assumes you're politically on the left. And those ads were aimed at those people.
  - rchaud 5y ago
    It's a project management tool, the most boring and inoffensive software possible. How were such ads shown to have a political bent?
JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
You're not missing anything. What these people miss is any potential unseating of Jira. The executives want it, project management wants it, engineers be damned. Had to convince my team to stop using Github Issues so Directors had more insight into our work, since Jira's where they look. It's panned out well for the team. The visibility gets us better projects and helps when it comes to annual reviews.
- marcinzm 5y ago
  My company started using Monday.com for all project tracking. Engineers were not happy. We're now on Jira for all engineering tickets and tasks. Never through I'd see engineers happy to use Jira.
weird-eye-issue 5y ago
My ex business partner (the ideas guy), loved it. I think he saw so many ads for it that he got brainwashed. Mostly what he liked was you could add time estimates and then it could sum them up, and you could group that in different ways. He would use that to create completely unrealistic timeline views which were never met.
- edoceo 5y ago
  Had me in the first half. Well done.

ericcholis 5y ago

I think Flexibility, UX and Marketing.

Bombthecat 5y ago
Especially Marketing

nicoburns 5y ago

I got the impression that most existing tools in this space were quite targeting at software development, whereas was taking that model and bringing it to general project delivery. That's just from the their marketing though. I haven't actually used it.

city41 5y ago

They marketed the living heck out of it. For a while I couldn't turn around without seeing a Monday.com ad.

MentallyRetired 5y ago
Monday has been stealing from Timelinr (https://timelinr.com https://timelinr.com) for years now. I saw their marketing efforts shoot up around the same time. Looks like it's been paying off for them, but I prefer to support smaller startups, especially when all I need it for is roadmapping.
- have_faith 5y ago
  From comparing both homepages I get the impression that whatever influence Monday took from Timelinr initially they left them behind long ago. The Timelinr landing page could also do with a lot of work but I think it's mostly the tone of voice that doesn't work well with me personally.
soperj 5y ago
I find this weirdly hilarious, because of ad blocking, I'd never heard of this company before this.
- 0xffff2 5y ago
  Likewise. Based on this thread, I'm going to take it that my ad blocking setup is even more effective than I gave it credit for.
  - Rastonbury 5y ago
    Yeah, I mean it's kind of sobering as well, thinking of all the collective hours spent watching ads when ad blockers are 1-click installs.
ljm 5y ago
It was everywhere on the Tube in London after it rebranded from Dapulse, in the middle of the whole Brexit fiasco. It reaffirmed something an old colleague of mine said: everyone in startup tech assumes you're politically on the left. And those ads were aimed at those people.
- rchaud 5y ago
  It's a project management tool, the most boring and inoffensive software possible. How were such ads shown to have a political bent?

JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago

You're not missing anything. What these people miss is any potential unseating of Jira. The executives want it, project management wants it, engineers be damned. Had to convince my team to stop using Github Issues so Directors had more insight into our work, since Jira's where they look. It's panned out well for the team. The visibility gets us better projects and helps when it comes to annual reviews.

marcinzm 5y ago
My company started using Monday.com for all project tracking. Engineers were not happy. We're now on Jira for all engineering tickets and tasks. Never through I'd see engineers happy to use Jira.

weird-eye-issue 5y ago

My ex business partner (the ideas guy), loved it. I think he saw so many ads for it that he got brainwashed. Mostly what he liked was you could add time estimates and then it could sum them up, and you could group that in different ways. He would use that to create completely unrealistic timeline views which were never met.

edoceo 5y ago
Had me in the first half. Well done.