Thanks! One of the things I'm trying to do design wise is eliminate/minimize pop up screens and multiple pages, etc. I want everything to accessible from one screen.
My plan is to add functionality--initially realtime collaboration--and then comments, tasks, assigned users, point/time tracking, etc. but make all of the features opt-in and customizable.
I consider this the real minimum viable product. Just a list of items. Priority represented by position in a list. Status respresented by WHICH list. An unobtrusive backlog. An accessible archive. I want people to be able to use it at this level of simplicity a year from now.
Trello is a great product and, honestly, it was a bit deflating when they launched. Not to mention they are (currently) free and I hope to offer premium packages.
The one (only?) thing about Trello that I don't love is the number of pop up screens, etc. I want ThetaBoard to be a single interface where you can do what you need from the one page. If that makes any sense.
I really like your product, and I also like Trello, but unfortunately our corporate policy is to avoid hosting data on third party servers so I can't use either. These products would make a great tool for my small team.
This is not a suggestion just a comment/wish, I'd like to see some app like yours offer the ability to store/retrieve data from a web service that we can provide to you but written to your specification, not sure if something like that is possible, but it would be preferable to a packaged application my small team cannot afford. I haven't seen a SaaS app take this approach, but it is interesting to think how it might work. UI as a Service?
Really interesting idea. With Backbone.js and RESTful APIs (which ThetaBoard is using), it wouldn't be too difficult to implement on the UI side. The hardpart would be getting organizations like yours to build their own public api exposing their business data.
My plan is to add functionality--initially realtime collaboration--and then comments, tasks, assigned users, point/time tracking, etc. but make all of the features opt-in and customizable.
I consider this the real minimum viable product. Just a list of items. Priority represented by position in a list. Status respresented by WHICH list. An unobtrusive backlog. An accessible archive. I want people to be able to use it at this level of simplicity a year from now.