@bentossell Great question, this is something I get asked a lot. The main difference is how you structure projects. In Trello, you typically use one board at a time, and create as many columns as you need for your project. This often causes the UI to scroll horizontally as the board becomes more complex.
With Wiplo, instead of one board with unlimited columns, you create a board for each stage of your project's workflow, and each board/stage only has four columns: Later, Upcoming, In Progress, and Complete. Because of this, when a user jumps between different boards and projects, their eyes go straight to the In Progress column, instead of having to scroll horizontally or figure out how this new project they're looking at is structured. It's a subtle change, but has had a huge impact.
Going forward, we'll provide analytics for a project so you can understand how each stage of your workflow is doing, and identify who the rockstars are for each stage.
On top of that, we are insanely focused on clean, minimalist design. We want the experience to be pixel-perfect and delightful, and believe it's about time enterprise software caught up with the rest of the design world 😁
@jmsuth interesting! How did you come to this conclusion? Is this something people are really looking for?
It's becoming quite a crowded space so less and less room to define a USP so keen to see how you plan to continue innovating here.
What are your bigger plans too?
@bentossell It started out as a tool I built just for myself. I am an extremely organized (borderline OCD) person, and the current solutions were just too busy for me, and didn't match how I worked. I wasn't positive at the time if it would resonate with others, but the feedback has been amazing so far.
As for bigger plans, I don't want to give away everything just yet! We like challenging how things are, and are going to continue doing that.
@jmsuth I like hearing founders building for themselves first! And can definitely resonate on the borderline OCD (although mines not organisation)
Hmm ok ...
Well done @jmsuth - some feedback.
* I use f.lux, like many others. This makes some low contrast button quite hard to read (e.g. main yellow-white CTA at the top)
* this space is very crowded. Trello is a clear winner and I see how you want to differentiate yourself. Although, we as possible customers have the opportunity to use free tools that *eventually* we start paying for. What I saw happening many times in different companies is that many employees or team members with no buying power start to use new tools like these. After a few weeks, months, the whole team / company decides to move on the tool that best fits their needs and subscribes to a premium account. If you have just a 14 days trial, they wouldn't bother even trying it as they wouldn't be able kickoff a subscription within that timeframe.
* while I like the product, I dislike the pricing model. It's too simple and based on the "the bigger Remember that the more users you get on board, the more your product will get out. you are, the more money you have" assumption. You could focus on # of projects, types of branding, etc....
* asking for credit card on signup is an entry barrier that, in this space, only well established players can afford. New services like yours may find quite a drop rate on the signup page (would love if you could report what drop rate you have from @producthunt subscribers). The "standard" (I wish!) these days is to get users onboarded in the easiest and fastest way, satisfy them with a WOW service and upsell upgrades in the UX. Users will give you the cc details when they want to / are willing to pay (and THAT'S commitment!). Users don't tend to trust services that ask CC details beforehand to automatically charge once the trial begins.
A final but very important suggestion, because of the (I assume) high drop rate in the signup screen, try to show the credit card form AFTER users enter their details. This way, if they drop, you still have their emails and names and can follow up and maybe offer them a "free version".
As a last note, a big thumbs up for kicking off a service that came out of a personal need. A lot of makers build their on PM tool, but few can deliver such a high quality UX like yours.
I will stay tuned to find out how it grows.
@enricofoschi Hi Enrico! Thank you so much for the feedback, you make a lot of great points. Our focus has been entirely on the experience inside the product, I'm excited to shift a lot of our attention to on-boarding and improving the performance of the funnels you mentioned. Our pricing has started out extremely simple, it's something we need to tweak so that it aligns with users better. Overall, today has taught us a lot, we're considering a free plan for 1, maybe 2 users to solve a lot of the issues you brought up.
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