Hey @awilkinson, nice work! I've been a big fan of MetaLab for a while now.
I'm the creator of a similar product called OnHive.io so I can definitely identify with the problem you're trying to solve.
It seems that a number of platforms (e.g. Asana, Basecamp, Glip, Flow) are all converging on the same place. A central space for teams to live, chat, and work.
Do you see this trend of "an all day interface" as being the future of team collaboration? For the last few years its been all about smaller products that solve smaller problems.
Wow, looks like I'm going to start a bright discussion about our use of Slack at the office. Awesome UI, awesome idea.
At my company we've been using the 'old' Flow for a while to create todo lists & tasks for the commercial team, but stopped using it because 70% of our team is technical and they prefer JIRA for full sprint/scrum/agile planning.
Always wanted to ask what type of team (commercial vs. tech in this case) is the 'use case' for Flow? (given that devs ask for a little more than just a short 'todo')
@jaapvannes Great question, Jaap. We can't be everything to every type of team. And we certainly have categories of teams that are more attracted to and remain with Flow: creative/design, marketing, sales, IT teams are all a nice fit. We've intentionally left out specific kinds of functionality from Flow, which automatically puts us out of the running for specific kinds of teams -- which is a good thing. Trying to force a poor match between product and people is a path to failure...
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I like it! It reminds me first version of Asana combined with Trello (cards FTW!:). Looking forward to try it on my next project.
I hit the 'sign-up with Google' button and now I'm stuck in a deadlock. Signup form says I'm already a user and sign-in form says I'll have to login and authenticate the Google ID first. Forgot password doesn't send any email. A little help here?
@awilkinson - Great to see Flow here! We use Voxer for team messaging for important stuff. Do you guys forsee introducing a Voice functionality in Flow?
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I must be one of the few that don't switch task management apps easily (as neat as the app looks), and for that reason it's hard for me to see any challengers succeed without any sort of integration with existing tools.
Personally, Slack/Trello integration is a must. I could live without Slack, but I'm not switching off of Trello anytime soon (couldn't even if I wanted to as I work on many teams that use it).
I predict Slack will add task management and then it will be all over (you can even get simple task management using the slackbot/private channels and snippets). Or even better if they officially open up their app to third parties like Trello just did.
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