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Michael Dubakov

Fibery for Product Teams — All-in-one platform to invent, build and grow your products

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Fibery is a connected workspace for product teams. It unites user research, ideation, strategic planning, product roadmapping, software development and customer feedback aggregation. Escape scattered tools and make better products with Fibery.
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Michael Dubakov
🌶 Hey Product Hunt, Fibery founder here. About a year ago we released Fibery 1.0. It was a generic release, and we learned where Fibery really helps companies and where it doesn't. We discovered that Fibery works great for small and medium product companies and connects several processes together. So we focused on exactly that and now I'm happy to introduce Fibery for Product teams release. It's a connected workspace that unites all important product development processes together: - User Research to conduct interviews, identify pain points, and find out why your latest glorious idea won't work. - Ideation to write insightful documents and create beautiful diagrams. - Strategic planning, roadmapping, and backlog management to keep everything on track. - Software Development to not use JIRA. - Customer Feedback aggregation to improve the product, and turn each release day into Boxing Day for your customers. We definitely eat our own dog food, so check how we use Fibery to create Fibery. And the icing on a cake, Fibery is free for startups. If your annual revenue is less than ours, scroll down and apply here. Michael Founder, Fibery
rudolfnn 🌲
@michael_dubakov I'm really excited to start working with Fibery for our 4-person real estate development company. I just made this decision after studying many tools like Clickup, Notion, Coda. Your "vs. X" blog posts have been very helpful in this regard and are comprehensive and refreshingly honest. Also, I really resonated with your November 2018 post on Hackernoon, which made me really believe in Fibery's vision. Now, the only major flaw I could find is that Fibery's seemingly great software doesn't seem to be very popular yet. Which to me is unbelievable. For example, just look at your great, refreshing website and nice, simple pricing model. It was only because of your own transparency that I could learn from the May 2021 Startup Diary that Fibery has a steady count of active accounts of only 280. Only 5 new customers in the last month, which is also declining. This makes me wonder if Fibery will still be around next year... @michael_dubakov Michael, isn't it time to get some help from AppSumo and grow your bank balance and user base?
Michael Dubakov
@rudolfnn Thank you for the feedback! Indeed our traction is not stark so far, but we are not rushing with marketing efforts and focusing on product value. We have close to 100% retention, but did not figure acquisition yet, Fibery is quite complex product and we have to learn how to onboard teams more effectively. We have enough money for the next 2 years in the worst case scenario. And I do believe that we'll find a path to success soon :)
rudolfnn 🌲
@michael_dubakov I appreciate your transparency and honesty. Contributes to the already huge likability factor of Fibery, you and your team. Besides the current traction, Fibery has everything to succeed! I think you are already doing a great job with the recent use case templates and well spoken English explainer videos. Perhaps the latest link missing link is an avid influencer like e.g. Tom Solid with 57.1k YT subs. He uses Notion, Coda and ClickUp but is always looking for a better tool as he is not completely satisfied at the moment. Fibery may be the solution he's looking for, but he's not aware of.
Michael Dubakov
@rudolfnn Yeah, we've heard similar things from few people and in general I agree that we need some publicity to get better traction
Matthew  Gramovich
New product from a great team. Sounds like it is new must have product for all product teams. Good luck, guys!
Steve Yang
Looks like already removed 500 entities limitations for free (solo) user ? Actually, I still like Fibery than other PM toolS, bcz Fibery have Highly integrated in the currently market. But looks like still doesn't much popular, why ? problem is Price? No referral link ?
Michael Dubakov
@steve_yang1 Limitation is gone indeed. I hope this post explains something https://medium.com/fibery/all-in...
Mattias Le Cren
I have been using Fibery for a few months with my team and it is really a great tool all around. It makes our job easier and being able to link things together really makes a difference. The Fibery team is dedicated to continuously improve their product and it shows. Good luck on the launch and kudos for the work done so far 👏
Michael Dubakov
@lecrenm Thank you!
AZ
Fibery is best flexible tool that I've ever seen. We're already using this tool at EduDo, this awesome experience. Best customer support via Intercom, thanks Polina 🥰 Fibery has great potential to scale and create great visibility for all team members Good luck, guys. @michael_dubakov, @anna_master 🤩
Ihnat Kandrashou
With Fibery and little effort, our small team of 6 people managed to build our own, custom and cozy management process. Product and project management, task tracking, roadmapping, documentation and even candidates interview notes in one place. Flexibility is a power :)
Michael Dubakov
@ihnat_kandrashou Indeed! Thank you for the review and glad you like Fibery.
Oshyan Greene
As many others have said, what defines Fibery and sets it apart is its flexibility and the interconnection of information in different workflows that can result. There is no other tool that can be quite as flexible while remaining easy to use and accessible even at the administrator-level. There are more powerful systems, or aspects of tools like e.g. Coda that can do things that Fibery can't (yet) do, but in the vast majority of cases it is more complex and difficult to set things up in those tools. Fibery does a great job of balancing flexibility with ease of use at all levels. Since this flexibility is its main strength, it is not necessarily going to compete directly with some dedicated tools in particular areas of work. If you are happy with the structure of existing tools and the connection of your data that is already available to you (or not) in other systems, then it's not going to provide you much benefit. Setting it up to work in these kinds of "standard" ways is absolutely possible, it just takes time. But even in that case, if you anticipate a likelihood of growing needs over time, you may be able to save yourself time, money, or both by creating a more "standard" workflow in Fibery that you can then expand and customize for your changing needs. If you are like me, and many other startups and other small businesses, and your needs don't seem to be covered "out of the box" by any existing tool, then you'll find Fibery to be a breath of fresh air. I run a real estate development company, hardly what you would consider the core use case for Fibery, and yet it adapted extremely well to our needs. Imagine being able to track every aspect of a property, from financial data (buy/sell price, annual taxes, etc.), to development (site improvements, studies, etc.), to maintenance (backflow testing, brush clearing and trash removal), and then relate that to equally comprehensive data on development projects, property sales or purchase processes, loans, contacts and companies, and more. All the data interconnects and can be segmented as much (or as little) as you want, which makes it better even than some other tools (like e.g. Airtable) that may be able to implement a similar level of detail for databases, but which are far more cumbersome and limited in terms of access to and interconnection of data. One of the dangers of flexible, "no code" platforms is that because the UI is not customized, it is easy for your own administration and setup to result in sub-par UX for the actual users of the system. In Fibery this is possible too, of course, but unlike many other tools the core UI and UX are in general much more well thought-out, which helps to minimize the chance that the flexibility and customization lets you create a fundamentally frustrating UX for people. A good example of this in comparison to Notion 2.0 is that Rich Text Fields in Fibery can be repositioned anywhere, and you can have as many as you want per "Entity" (what Notion calls "pages"). In Notion, even with the newer ability to hide some Properties, you *still* have all your DB properties at the top of the page, above your rich text content. For some situations this is desirable, but for many others it's not. Fibery has fields *alongside* the rich text area(s), which is much, much better UX. That's just one example of where Fibery's team clearly thought through the user experience much more than Notion did as it built out flexible features and customization. The other thing I want to mention is that the team behind Fibery has a lot of good experience (@michael_dubakov helped found Target Process ) and I think this is partly responsible for their excellent consistency in feature updates and fixes (often weekly releases, monthly at a minimum). The transparency of the dev process has also been great, with (mostly) monthly updates from Michael on the progress of the product, including setbacks, challenges, etc. This is really refreshing when compared to products like Notion which are the opposite of transparent, and where you only find out about the reason for big delays and challenges well after the fact (e.g. API, localization), if at all. In addition to this they have an active user community in their forums, where several of the team also interact fairly frequently. Again this contrasts sharply with tools like Notion where, yes sometimes you'll get an acknowledgement on e.g. Twitter, but real conversations back and forth seldom happen, and *never* with the actual devs (it's always indirect, with a support rep, etc.). I've had detailed and specific feature discussions with the Fibery team and it's incredibly satisfying to have that much input into the process. Of course not everything will be implemented exactly as I prefer, but to know my voice is being listened to is so much more satisfying than the opaque interactions with other companies. Now of course Fibery is not perfect. They are still relatively early in development and miss a lot of features you may already depend on in other tools. One of the biggest and most important in my view is proper "notifications". There is a "Notifications" button, but the actual use of it is cumbersome and limited, and there is little "active" notification functionality. The best you can do is have all notifications sent to email, which works for letting you know of some things, but is still not ideal. There is no date-based notification, for example! So indeed you will not get a notification (yet) when a "due date" comes. I know this is something they're working on, along with many other things. And we are making do in the meantime without it. The other capabilities we get from the existing functionality already make it a better tool for our needs than anything else we've seen out there, and we've looked at *a lot*, from the well-knowns like Coda, Airtable, and Notion 2.0, to lesser-knowns like Infinity, Ninox, Tabidoo, and more.
Michael Dubakov
@oshyan_greene Wow, thank you so much for extensive review! Really appreciate it ❤️
Arthur Varushyla
Great to have everything under one hood: customer development results, research, key features, tasks. Nicely done!
Michael Dubakov
@artuxa Yeah, that is the main idea!
Christoph Burchartz
The best tool you can find... ... IF you are looking for a swiss army knife that encourages you to think first (what do I really need) and then find the best fitting tool there is. I've been a fibery user (or more so an evangelist) for about a year now and my verdict (from my perspective) is quite simple: THIS IS IT! OK, I have to admit that the learning curve can be rather steep - at least if you want to unleash the full mind blowing power of Fibery. But that goes for all the great tools out there (or can you imagine a designer saying that mastering Photohop is a piece of cake?) But take a deep breath and think about all of those wasted hours you tried to make Trello & Co understand your tiny (but very important) deviations of the "standard workflow". With fibery, there is very little "standard workflow" (again: this might overwhelm you in the beginning) - on the contrary, you'll find a nifty and carefully curated set of data-types, views and logic - this is all you'll need! No standard labels (that don't apply to your business case) or workflow x which totally ignores your way of doing it. It's all up to you (which can and will be a bit scary I admit). Within the last 6 month, I have started to migrate literally EVERY persistent process from my company (30+ people, eCommerce agency) to fibery. This includes huge projects (bye bye JIra & Confluence) with customer involvement, our internal wiki, our administration, Forecasting, HR-processes and much more. In addition to that, I started using Fibery for many other organizational aspects of my life: Organizing my band and gigs, expenditure with my family, sports activities and much more! I strongly encourage you (yes you) to take some time and a deep dive into the realm of Fibery! You'll need some endurance - but it'll be worth every drop of sweat and tears. The best for last: The Fibery team is a great, funny, modest and humble bunch of well educated people! For that alone you should try out Fibery and get in touch with them. They share a clear and honest vision for they tool which goes way beyond the usual "let's create a cool tool that many people will buy and we'll be rich soon"-shit! I've had many (many) zoom- and feedback sessions with them and they were all inspiring and very focused! This tool will radically change the way we'll handle data distribution and visualization! And it will change elaborate the way you think! Best wishes Chris ps. They usually deploy new features once a week! That alone makes you love the tool! New stuff to play with every week!
Michael Dubakov
@christoph_bu Wow, thank you for the extensive review! 🌶 I hope we can add this review to our web site :)
Cioaca Virgil
We switched from Coda and a few others to Fibery. Super flexible tool, especially for software companies... it lets you manage the entire business using this single application.
Michael Dubakov
@virgilci Cool! What you still miss in Fibery that you liked in Coda?
Alexandra Cote
The UI sure is sleek!
Michael Dubakov
@alexandra_m_co_e Thanks! We try to be modern.
JohanDT
Very interesting! I definetely think this is something we could find useful. We're a new type of venture fund where we create products/companies from scratch, which means that we are going through a lot of processes and following our own methodology. Thanks for making this :)
Karen Nguyen
This looks phenomenal! Love, love, love the idea of centralizing everything product-related in one space.
Dmitry Minsky
It's hard to believe how easily you could configure every single detail here. It could looks complicated from the first sight but it isn't. Even if you don't want to configure anything you could just use any of tens available predefined apps.
Michael Dubakov
@dmitry_minsky Thank you ❤️
Ruslan  Heller
I've been using Fibery for about 3 months and it's a great experience so far. Guys definitely know what they do, their blog is a masterpiece and their sense of humor is on another level, I can't help showing this page to my friends https://fibery.io/anxiety. Kudos!
Michael Dubakov
@ruslan_ibraimov Thank you! We are trying to enjoy what we do and having fun.
Misha Malikin
Being among the early adopters it’s great to see the product progressing step by step. Keep listening to users and we’ll definitely keep building with Fibery!
Michael Dubakov
@misha_malikin Thanks, we do listen!
Jani Jokela
Fibery is easy to use and you can easily configure your boards. Multiple integrations and use cases how you can use the tool. Team communication is open and friendly. Keep on rockin Fibery!
Michael Dubakov
@jani_jokela Thank you, Jani! We will.
Ulad Bohdan
We've been using Fibery to develop and power our non-commercial project for about 15 months so far. Great tool which becomes more awesome with every update!
Michael Dubakov
@uladbohdan We are happy that Fibery bring some value!
Олександр Протасєня
After 6 months of slow playing around and exploring, our team is now moving to Fibery because it truly is great. There is a bit of a learning curve for the “admin” setting up the processes, but for “users” all is pretty clear. The coolest part – any user having a “let’s try to do this differently” moment can try tuning the tool to demo/support it: just add a field here and there, drag a connection, and – bam – ready! If admin’s permissions allow, that is, hehe. Connecting everything is great not for the creative purposes only. I am now migrating our financial processes to Fibery, and having the ability to put a $ cost to everything is gold for budgeting. And for the chart-junkies out there – Fibery uses the Vizydrop beast as its internal chart engine, and boy those charts are powerful and beautiful at the same time! The possibilities of the “no code” part are vast, and the adaptive UI that’s always prioritizing clarity and stability ensures a solid ground under your own ultra-flexible tool. If you dig deep enough though – and I’m talking “custom buttons and connecting to other tools’ API” deep – there is some coding involved still. But the guides are good (lots of examples) and the community forum is helpful: I got more help than I expected from other fiber-heads and the dev team! Fibery FTW!
Michael Dubakov
@aprotasenya Thank you so much for the deep review!