jamespaden
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Comment · 4 years ago
It's only $3 for life for beta users :)
More seriously though, thanks for the feedback. We're not sure what the best pricing is yet. $10/user/mo is in line with similar products and is a small price to pay for getting rid of unnecessary overhead and management. It might be too high though.
Comment · 4 years ago
Probably not as interesting now that you can play with the actual tool, but we also wrote several blog posts describing our thinking and goals for solving this problem:
https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/keep-the-...
https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/schedule-...
https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/many-hand...
https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/where-tas...
https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/you-can-o...
This is just v0.1 of the tool, so we haven't solved/built all the above yet, but maybe it shows some of our thinking process.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the insight!
Comment · 4 years ago
Ha! I think project managers as infrastructure makes a lot of sense. Just seems like there should be ways to smooth out the process, especially with smaller teams/companies so less project management is required.
Comment · 4 years ago
No problem! It's a weird question to ask. A lot of companies just hire a project manager and let them work it out. There seems like there should be a better way, or at least some partial alternatives. I'm hoping to find some answers.
Comment · 4 years ago
There's obviously a lot of different project management strategies.
Some companies seem to have project managers assign daily tasks to each developer. The PMs then spend a lot of time defining the tasks and moving the schedule around. They have weekly/daily meetings with other PMs to do cross-project planning.
On the other hand, Basecamp's Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) process defines a desired outcome with some clear parameters and a six-week deadline and simply lets the team figure out the rest. There's not a lot of project management happening on a week-by-week basis.
So my question is, what do teams in the middle of those two extremes do? How do teams spend less time on minutia of planning projects and tasks and more time doing?
Comment · 4 years ago
Who breaks the work down: you or the PM?
Does the PM ever bother you to get the status of something, or is it always clear from the kanban board? I've seen the "bug the developer for a status update" move a lot in the past.
Agreeing on the API contract seems like a fantastic way to streamline the process!
Comment · 5 years ago
How do you differ from Skypher.co, which is another YC company? We're about to sign up with them.
Comment · 7 years ago
Biased cause I work there, but DocRaptor offers a saas API version of the Prince library with a much lower usage-based monthly fee.
Comment · 7 years ago
Those things can be really difficult with the browser-based libraries because the browsers don't yet (and seemingly never will) support CSS Paged Media. That's why commercial engines like Prince and DocRaptor (which uses Prince) exist. These engines were designed for document generation and have much better support for headers/footers, table of contents, page numbers, etc, etc..
Disclaimer: I work for DocRaptor
Comment · 7 years ago
Hi, I'm a developer at DocRaptor. What about DocRaptor didn't work for you?
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm a developer at https://docraptor.com. We're an official Prince partner with a SaaS pricing model, but we've got a separate JavaScript engine for that very reason.
Mostly lurking. Primary development language/framework is Ruby on Rails.