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I'm playing around with it, and it seems similar to our current solution, http://www.liquidplanner.com/ http://www.liquidplanner.com/ I wonder if there's a com

by pdx 14y ago

I'm playing around with it, and it seems similar to our current solution, http://www.liquidplanner.com/ http://www.liquidplanner.com/ I wonder if there's a compare/contrast between the features/capabilities of LiquidPlanner, Acunote, and others. EDIT after downvotes: I was being diplomatic, out of respect for anybody who ships in general, and any YC company in particular. However, since I'm now feeling less charitable, let me be less diplomatic. The features of this app are a subset of LiquidPlanner. I see no features that it does not have, and considerably less polish. I would say this is a good start, but they have a long way to go.

gleb 14y ago
I haven't done a serious competitive evaluation of Liquid Planner so I would hesitate to offer an opinion about them. Much like with a new source control system it take 1-2 solid day to get a feel for a system like this, and your understanding stays primitive until you talk to real customers. I can tell you that talking to our customers, some of whom evaluated 50 alternatives (no joke) at the end it all comes to: * being fast * easy to use * scalable I know it sound undifferentiated, but the reality is that while everybody claims all of these, few products do any of this well. I'll give you one example. We have keyboard shortcuts for just about every operation in Acunote. For many power users this is really important, as lets them do a lot of stuff rapidly. It's a qualitative difference when you can work at the speed of though. From the engineering and feature point of view that's like 5% of the product, but that's what matters to customers, so that's what makes sense to talk about. Having said that, Acunote does offer a ton more, but we do it based on a few powerful orthogonal primitives, so we don't have to come up with a new button for every kind of need as it leads to unusable interfaces. This lets us serve large customers with complex needs while remaining highly usable and approachable for smaller groups. One thing we should offer is better training, screencasts, tutorial on getting started. That's definitely something we are working on. Please shoot an email to our support. We'd love to discuss this further with you.

by pdx 14y ago

gleb 14y ago

I haven't done a serious competitive evaluation of Liquid Planner so I would hesitate to offer an opinion about them. Much like with a new source control system it take 1-2 solid day to get a feel for a system like this, and your understanding stays primitive until you talk to real customers. I can tell you that talking to our customers, some of whom evaluated 50 alternatives (no joke) at the end it all comes to: * being fast * easy to use * scalable I know it sound undifferentiated, but the reality is that while everybody claims all of these, few products do any of this well. I'll give you one example. We have keyboard shortcuts for just about every operation in Acunote. For many power users this is really important, as lets them do a lot of stuff rapidly. It's a qualitative difference when you can work at the speed of though. From the engineering and feature point of view that's like 5% of the product, but that's what matters to customers, so that's what makes sense to talk about. Having said that, Acunote does offer a ton more, but we do it based on a few powerful orthogonal primitives, so we don't have to come up with a new button for every kind of need as it leads to unusable interfaces. This lets us serve large customers with complex needs while remaining highly usable and approachable for smaller groups. One thing we should offer is better training, screencasts, tutorial on getting started. That's definitely something we are working on. Please shoot an email to our support. We'd love to discuss this further with you.