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Michael Seibel

Dart - Project management on autopilot

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Dart is a fully-featured project management tool crafted to save time. It uses GPT-4 to learn your team’s patterns and then automate away 'work about work' like filling out descriptions, categorizing and assigning tasks, writing subtasks, and more.

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Zack Swafford
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Hey everyone! We are thrilled to introduce Dart 🎯, the project management tool designed for fast-moving, scrappy teams. Dart has been invite-only for over a year, but its success with its early users has made us eager to share everything with the PH community! All of us at Dart have experienced firsthand how challenging it can be to juggle multiple projects on tight deadlines across a distributed team. In the past year, we've worked with hundreds of product managers, engineers, designers, and founders who share our sentiment—project management can be overwhelming and distracting from the core work of building and talking to users. So we created Dart to make all of our lives easier! Solutions we have found in other tools for this sort of ‘work about work’ have been limited primarily to rule-based automation. However, new core technology like GPT-4 (have you heard of it? 😛) allows us to avoid these clunky solutions and get closer to our vision of Dart as a competent, context-aware assistant that does the mundane work for you. In particular, Dart can: • Fill out descriptions or short PRDs • Automatically categorize, assign, size, prioritize, and schedule your tasks • Break tasks up into subtasks • and much more! Dart also includes the standard PM features that you and your team will probably expect and need, such as dependencies, configurable workflows, access management, etc. We've also focused on the keyboard-native experience; emphasized design; built mobile apps; and enabled GitHub, Notion, and Slack integrations—all in service of saving as much time as possible. We believe that Dart is a unique product that provides differentiated value from anything we or our users have ever seen before. What matters most of all, though, is your feedback—we hope you take a moment to check it out and share your thoughts!
Matthias Neumayer
@zswaff looks really good!
Zack Swafford
Maker
@mnewme thanks so much! Let us know if you get a chance to use it and have any feedback.
Hugo DEVEZE 🏴‍☠️
Hey guys ! A question about your dependency to GPT-4 : how do you do when the service is down or if it is down one day ?
Milad Malek
Maker
@devezehugo Thanks for the question! Whenever we can we try to offset dependency on any particular service provider, so for example we handle the natural language to task property generation in the quick-add area ourselves. Admittedly though we are a bit dependent on various forms of GPT in different places so that is something we need to work on more. Luckily we haven't had any serious issues to date but we're closely monitoring that. I should mention as well that we do a good job segmenting things, so if hypothetically one feature is hampered via an outage it's unlikely to affect other parts of the tool, and you'll still be able to use Dart relatively normally.
Zack Swafford
Maker
@devezehugo also, we're thinking about making our calls through Azure rather than OpenAI when possible. Will probably be more reliable that way.
Matt Williamson
Congrats on launching @zswaff and @milad_malek! There’s a lot of project management tools out there. What sets you apart from products like Jira, Clickup, etc?
Milad Malek
Maker
@zswaff @mattwilliamson Thank you for the question Matt! The particulars depend on the specific product we're comparing to of course, but there are some traits I can talk about in general: To start our focus is on relatively smaller teams (say 3-50 team members) and because of that we're geared primarily for speed and simplicity. We don't have as many features or complications as some other, larger, tools, but we think it leads to a better experience for smaller teams just trying to get stuff done quickly. At the same time Dart is flexible for the changing needs of growing companies- a specific example is our cycle management feature which teams can utilize on whatever cadence makes sense to them. Secondly, Dart is built for all sorts of roles and can help people manage tasks across engineering, design, marketing, sales, etc. This is different from an entire class of project management tools that are only geared for engineers and "issue tracking". This has proven to be helpful for teams that like to collaborate or maintain visibility across departments. Finally the features we're showcasing today using AI to help conduct project management are totally unique to Dart and will enable tremendous time saves. There are some other differentiated features that provide unique value (like our Notion integration) that we didn't cover here much, but I'll leave those for the product to explain 😉. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any more questions on this!
Ted Power
💡 Bright idea
Hey big congrats! I’m excited to try out the new features.What do you think is next in terms of applications of GPT in a project management context?
Zack Swafford
Maker
@tedp Thanks! Great question, there are so many exciting possibilities. One of the coolest new AI-based features coming up is our duplicate and related task detection process. Since Dart has a strong understanding of your tasks, we can flag tasks that are potentially redundant and save you lots of effort and headache on organization and clutter. That's been pretty popular in beta. Down the road, the sky's the limit! We'd like to be able to write longer and more accurate docs, automatically write status updates and changelogs, have Dart take a first stab at tasks that it can help with... all sorts of neat stuff!
David
Been using Dart for 6 months, its phenomenal! Replaced multiple organizational tools for us, all in one.
Zack Swafford
Maker
@david_paffenholz thanks! Always great to hear from you! As usual, let us know if you need anything.
Ajinkya Nene
Congrats on the launch! Is this similar to how Asana does automations?
Zack Swafford
Maker
@ajinkya_nene thanks, and thank you for the question! In a lot of ways yes, it is similar. The Dart automations solve for the same problem of saving you time. However, pretty much all tools (including Asana, I believe) use what we call 'rule-based automation' where someone has to write rules for 'if x happens, do y.' A lot of PMs we have talked to have said that these solutions don't work great because you have to do a lot of manual upkeep on the rules. What Dart does differently is that it uses AI to do more of what we call 'intuitive automation' where Dart just picks up on the patterns that you have been doing recently and then helps you skip steps when you need it. In this way you can save that time without the hassle of writing a bunch of rules. Does that answer your question?
Ben Lerner
This looks great! Seems like the perfect application of GPT-4. I’m so excited to finally automate away endless ticket creation in Jira. Will definitely begin using this immediately on my team.
Zack Swafford
Maker
@ben_lerner2 absolutely--common story. Jira can be a real time suck! I dealt with this a lot at my last job. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help get you and your team set up!
Congrats on the launch!
Zack Swafford
Maker
@jeffreyzhan thanks so much! Let us know if you have any feedback!
Oliver Hill
very cool guys. what gets you most excited about how the future looks if this is wildly successful?
Zack Swafford
Maker
@anteloper wow great question, so fun to think about. There are so many cool things we have planned, and never enough time! Right now we think of Dart as an awesome tool that helps to organize and maintain projects. One of the things that is really exciting for us is that it is starting to become a tool to actually help craft and build projects as well. Down the road Dart will be more and more of a 'context-aware assistant' that will be able to help with a broad range of tasks. This will mean organizing your projects and filing feedback and stuff but it will also mean doing some of your tasks for you. Imagine jotting down a task like 'redesign the website to include info about the new feature' or 'fix the bug that Oliver just reported in slack' and then have Dart record that task but also take a first pass at it and give you a figma to work from or a PR to approve.
Oliver Hill
@zswaff that would be wild. I'm imagining a little preview populating in the dart card and having a back and forth with both humans and AI that are tweaking it. love that you guys are working on this congrats on the launch
Anil Matcha
AI + project management is great. Congrats on the launch
Milad Malek
Maker
@matcha_anil Thanks Anil! We think the match makes a ton of sense as well.
Artyom Trofimuk
Good thing you can save time with this tool, thank you!
Zack Swafford
Maker
@artyom_trofimuk1 thanks for the comment! Between the AI-based features, the keyboard shortcuts, and the integrations, we definitely find that it saves us and our users a lot of time. Hope it is the same for you! Let us know if there is anything else you would like to see that would save you even more time.
Anna Stepura
Congratulations on a cool launch 🚀 Love the product🚀🚀🚀Want to try it out!
Zack Swafford
Maker
@anna_stepura2 thanks so much for the interest! Let us know if you have any thoughts or feedback once you try it 😃
Shubham Pratap Singh
Just saw tweet from Y Combinator (W22 batch) , congratulations on the launch🎉🎉🎉
Milad Malek
Maker
@shubham_pratap Thanks for checking us out! YC has been a tremendous help for us over this past year.
Shubham Pratap Singh
Would love to hear your experience @milad_malek , how was the selection process? How was this one year for you and your team? Share your journey , it will be a learning for us. :)
Congrats on the launch! The video is very smooth!
Milad Malek
Maker
@jinyu_rao Thank you Jinyu. We did try to make it smooth haha!
Bilal Niaz
This is really interesting! I'm definitely going to check it out.
Milad Malek
Maker
@bilal_niaz Thanks Bilal. I'm excited to hear what you think about it! Do let us know if we can help with anything along the way.
Prithvi Raj
@zswaff @milad_malek @massiarghib @eyacquah @nevecex looks really cool! will try out and get back to you with feedback
Milad Malek
Maker
@zswaff @massiarghib @eyacquah @nevecex @prithviiiraj Awesome Prithvi, glad to hear it. We'll be ready!
Rachel Radulovich
Launching soon!
Congrats on the launch, Dart team! Looking great! 🚀
Zack Swafford
Maker
@rachrad thanks for the kind words! Grateful for your support. We're always working hard to make the product better based on feedback, always appreciate yours!
Nish Ithayakumar
So excited to see you guys here. We love Dart!
Zack Swafford
Maker
@nish_i thanks for the note! We love Nimbus too! We'd love to hear about your thoughts about what we've built recently, particularly the quick add feature (type natural language, easily and quickly fill out task details). If you get a chance to check it out and have any feedback, let us know!
Willem van den Bosch
Congrats on the launch! We are proud users here at Soma Cap and excited to dig into the expanded functionality. @zswaff
Zack Swafford
Maker
@willem_vdb thanks for the support! Excited to hear what you think of the latest features.
Mikael Nida
Awesome updates team! Congrats on the launch.
Milad Malek
Maker
@mikael_nida Thanks for tuning in Mikael!