Thank you! Ravi
19 karma · joined May 8, 2019
I am Robins, co-founder of due.work (https://www.due.work/). Due.work helps teams to organise, track and manage their work
Actually, after working together with several companies and managing teams for years we actually never found a single productivity solution with whom we can really love using it.
Problems which we had with existing solutions:
1. When working with teams even on a very small project after some time tasks always get cluttered even if we are using several labels, priority, etc.
2. It was very difficult to get to know the list of all overdue tasks that gets missed its deadline. No matter how productive we are there is always a probability of missing a deadline especially when we work in a team. What we wanted was something to aggregate all overdue tasks in a seperate group and display it on top whenever a task gets delayed, so that we can decide what to do with those missed tasks.
3. There were no good tools that actually let you decide what you really want instead they enforce you to it. What if the product manager prefers a view to writing tasks which will have beautiful Gantt chart to displays all the timelines of the tasks whereas the Business analysts of the team want a board view like in trello where all tasks present is on status wise. whereas other people want just a simple todo list view which only displays those tasks that needs to be done today.
4. An online feature like (in google docs or sheets) was missing in all the productivity apps. When we are working together in teams we often want to know who else is also online/working right now. It helps to boost confidence among the team. With team showing online we can also, ask anyone at that moment only if we had any issue.
5. A simplistic tool to be used by all department of people was missing in all productivity platforms. Many good tools like trello or basecamp actually offer a simplistic solution. But they with basic feature only and we are only left to use several integrations to use it as a whole thus we end up paying more and more.
This was some of the main reason, we decided to build an altogether new productivity platform due.work (https://www.due.work/).
I would love to know your thoughts on the same.
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.
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.
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.
About 3 months ago we launched Due.work beta with the mission to simplify the way people work together in a team.
By that time we kept on working day and night improving our product and today we are finally launching public version Due.work.
Due.work allows you to organize and prioritize your project and tasks with a board, list, and timeline view.
Let me know your suggestions.
About 3 Months ago we launched Due.work 1.0 (which was previously known as Birtly) with the mission to simplify the way people work together in a team.
By that time we kept on working day and night improving our product and today we are finally launching Due.work.
Due.work allows you to organize and prioritize your project and tasks with a board, list, and timeline view. By using due.work you can segregate everything down into tasks, then prioritize and assign the tasks. review the progress of each area using different views.
What's new in Due.work
- Seperate pages for Today Tasks, My Tasks, Next 7 Days with support of 3 different views (List, Board and Timeline) in each.
- Communication for discussing together with your team while working on the same project.
- Seperate activities page for getting all auto-updates of work happening in the task. Activities remove the hassle of having integration with other third party tools like slack just to get an update about work happening in the project.
- Introduction of simple distraction-free list view to get more focused on work.
- Improved pricing plans for unlimited user, unlimited project access for each plans including the free one.
We are already working on it to bring more changes and tweaks to make it more user-friendly. Hope you liked it.
I would suggest you to try it once.