Dear HN, as a long time member, and being truly inspired it's my turn to announce an app. I've built a tool to keep track of 'Who is working on what?' in your team. URL: https://whoisworkingonwhat.com. Please review and let me know what you think. Specifically:<p><pre><code> 1. Is the idea good enough to build a small business around?
2. I don't have a recurring billing system integrated. I live in India and I do not have access to services like recurly or chargify. Assuming the tool gets some traction, I might want to to build in a recurring billing system. For now though, I am planning on requesting money using PayPal if required. I plan to charge $8 monthly for a basic plan (2 private projects) and $14/monthly for a plus plan (5 private projects). I've pulled these rates out of thin air for now. Are they reasonable?
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I have learned most of my product building skills reading you guys here at HN. The community is awesome and I've constantly felt that I had to try and share as well. I am offering a 3 month plus plan as a token of appreciation for all you good folks out there for making my year memorable. Link: https://whoisworkingonwhat.com/signup?promotion_code=yc As always, please keep the the comments coming in.
The revenues generated by the well-funded similar startup Yammer probably suggests there is a market for the service you're operating, though assuming you won't have an enterprise sales team you'd be wise to undercut their hideously expensive per-user charge ($5 per user might be OK for a five person company but not for a 25 person company that probably spends less on mission critical stuff like their CRM and/or bug trackers).
The price range you're aiming for doesn't sound unreasonable if you're aiming for the smaller businesses; any more and you start getting compared unfavourably with services like Basecamp that can keep people updated to what others are doing plus several other useful tasks. I agree that charges loosely based on number of users (up to 10; up to 50; up to 200; make up the price as you go along if you're lucky enough to get serious enquiries for larger companies and consider a free 3 user plan as proof of concept) make more sense than by project.<p>I'm not your target market, and probably wouldn't use it, but I like the execution of the product, particularly details like Github commit based updates. One thing I would change is the contrast of the forms; I have to squint or highlight the white-on-pale-blue text to be able to read it.
I don't really like the project grouping. A developer can work on multiple 'projects' on the same day and you don't want to have to look for them on Project A and Project B to get their latest update.<p>Maybe add a Team layer to the mix. A user can belong to multiple teams. You can have a Dev team and an IT team. Then an overall Tech team which includes everyone in Dev and IT. Then update the dashboard to allow you to view by Team or Project.<p>You'd have to work out a good way of explaining/displaying this to users.<p>Additionally, it'd be great to see the last 2 updates underneath each person. Or maybe on the team view list all updates under each person for the same day (otherwise show last 3).<p>This it personal preference, but adding different views to the dashboard would be pretty simple and would help sell me on this for my use.<p>Lastly, I don't know how well the pricing model works by limiting to a certain number of projects. To me, users is a more important grouping and I would do pricing based on that.
It's be great if the dashboard showed which one of the people was me more clearly (possibly you could show that box in a different color?). Just having "^ You" is not very easy to find. Other than that, it looks pretty neat. Not sure I'd use it, though.
I tried to sign up and I was directed to this page after I submitted the registration form:<p><a href="http://cl.ly/2U0E3g0w3U0s3s213527" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/2U0E3g0w3U0s3s213527</a><p>Might want to change the notification messages on there