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Ora — Agile task management, kanban, scrum, sprints and timers
Welcome to your team’s command center. A place to track projects. Tasks. Time. Commits. Status Reports. Your entire product or business! It's the fastest growing productivity suite your team needs right now!
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Vlad Arbatov
Your pricing page says that Startup plan is up to 8 users. But calculator switches to Professional at 6+. I believe there's a mistake somewhere.
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Certainly a fresh air in that crowded space. Was looking for an alternate to Trello. Tried Asana, gave up for it being complicated once you have some 50+ tasks in a project under different headings. They should rethink the layout and make it easy than to fight with the tool. Tried Favro, felt a lot better but still couldn't get a unified view of activities/tasks across projects and clearly felt something was missing, even though it's a lot better tool among the crowd.
Ora seem closer to a winner in this segment provided they roll out their mobile and other platform apps the sooner they can. Everything says coming soon...and that sounds scary for now given these days not many sit in front of a computer to plan or update their tasks. Also, a good About page would give us a better understanding of what to expect from the team there. Overall felt good trying, if they can tighten these little loose ends.
I absolutely love Ora. Their product is incredible and their team is super responsive to support inquiries, even for startups that aren't paying them a boatload of money yet.
I highly recommend this product!!
For a second I thought this was another app made by the @frontapp team because of the logo.
As for feedback, I like the look of it, how you can make it simple or feature rich. To me it has the vibes of Slack, Podio, and MeisterTask, and those aren't bad vibes to have. My only fear with switching to another project management app is wondering how long it'll be around. Apps get shutdown left and right. An ability to export my data would make it easier to jump in.
@geoffchat @frontapp Hey, we have planned export functionality. We will update you once it's ready
I like how the tags are in rounded rect lozenges, but the colors are so bright and distracting from the item text. Have you considered a way to let us assign our preferred colors?
I see it integrates with GitHub. Looking for GitLab as well. That would be a godsend.
Looks incredibly well-designed @yanev_n, @uffou, and @dimitarnestorov! Agree with the calendar... BUT this is an awesome tool!
Looks like a really great start, but I'd say there's a long way until this could be fully utilized in a production... It feels pretty ruff around the edges, once you actually start using it... Hope that the update frequency will pick up :)
@iammarkoradak Hey Marko, we plan frequent updates. Can you share with us what do you want to be polished?
This looks like a great productivity & project management tool! Even after testing most software out there I still haven't really found the perfect fit for our team. Something I always struggle with is that clients use their own tools and don't want to learn anything new. I'd love to hear how Ora tackles that problem: are there any integrations with existing tools like slack, skype chat, google calendar etc. It would be so cool if there was a tool where let's say internally we work with Ora but the client could use his own ecosystem and still get all the notifications & could access things from his preferred tools. This incompatibility is the main reason we keep going back to google drive, sheets and docs & skype chat. People just don't want to go through the whole learning curve.
@e_reder You read my mind! I would love for a way to connect my team's internal project management/productivity suite with that of a client's. It's hard to get external people to use the same tools as my team, and vice versa. It's a constant barrier. A tool that allows different teams to work together and while using the tools they already use and like would be a godsend.
soooo, I've been testing Ora over the last few days and am starting to find my way around. 1 piece of feedback: I find it hard to add to-do's. It's not very intuitive & the feature is hidden. Every time I hit "my tasks" I get to the inbox (only for assigned tasks). If I hit the Plus button it only let's me add projects. I find myself clicking around to finally find the add task button in my projects.
My Awwwsome team has switched to Ora from Asana three weeks ago. I can't find a single dissapointed person :) For us it's a perfect balance between JIRA and Asana, which we already tested. UI is great and intuitive.
There are a few rough edged though, but I believe that the Ora team will polish them really soon. Amazing job guys!
Played with it this afternoon & really love what I see. At face value, interface is friendly (a little bit of - IMO - unnecessary complexity on the Task objects, but overall very nice). But as you dig, you uncover structural genius that solves common problems most task managers don't address.
Each 'task' card exists within the project, but also within your own personal space, where you can see & update cards across all projects. My favorite feature thus far is easily the 'Plan My Week' space, where you can visually organize your tasks across the week (which, of course, updates the due dates in the projects that each task belongs to).
Great vision & looks like a really beautiful product so far. It's a tad bit slow in Opera, which might annoy some people. Can't wait to see chat & the mobile apps!
EDIT: grammar plz!
