I experienced such a fascinating wave of emotions reading this link and then this thread. Let me share so others' can compare:<p>"Ha! This is funny. It's poking fun at all these sites that try to reinvent a productivity tool. Wow...yup...they nailed it...yeah this looks hilariously over-complex. Ok, good parody!"<p>...goes to HN comments...<p>First comment...joke about the joke. Ha, funny's!<p>Second comment...yup people laughing at the joke...<p>10th comment...wait...um...someone said there was a different landing page. Ok, that's weird, this one seems less like satire.<p>15th comment...wait wait...I think this might be...a real product?<p>...Reads Medium post...goes back to HN comments....re-reads landing page.<p>"Ok..wait. This is actually a real product. They just spent 5 minutes making me think they were mocking other products with their fake over-complex screens...but....this...is....real?"<p>And now I just posted this. I think it's time for Thanksgiving vacation to start.
Okay I'm usually annoyed by these things, but seeing pg's picture... and then thinking "Oh, hmm, YC-funded huh"... then seeing Marc Anderseen's picture... then... seen a lot of other pictures, and then seeing "Inspired by investors."<p>Wonderful job. Stellar.
They have several of these landing pages, you can toggle between them by clicking the "I don't get it" button that floats in the bottom right or by clicking the logo.<p><a href="https://fibery.io/" rel="nofollow">https://fibery.io/</a>
Sort of crazy. I always hear about how startups need immense traction (e.g. DAU, revenue) before getting funding, and yet somehow Fibery seems to exist (persist?) in spite of that. Here are the October numbers[1]:<p><pre><code> Product: Fibery — SaaS B2B (SMB) work management platform
Stage: Private Beta
Launch: Q4 2019 (public)
Development: 31 months
Leads/month: 500 → 380
Total Accounts: 490 → 520
Active Accounts: 15 → 20
Team size: 10
Burn rate: ~$40K/month
MRR: $0
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="https://medium.com/fibery/fibery-io-chronicles-14-anxious-september-d25908071c80" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/fibery/fibery-io-chronicles-14-anxious-se...</a>
It's a brutally honest look at the shortcomings of a startup backed by a product, that seriously, looks to be at least decent.<p>Their intent is to get you to convert, but instead of giving the usual flowery bullshit, they make you laugh.<p>Fine, I'll try it.
Wait what now?<p>This is a real product, but marketed by Seinfeld's script writer?<p>I mean parts of the real product are what I want / build from sphinx spare parts - and I cannot work out now if those features are worthwhile or dumb.<p>I am very confused
Their approach to the product seems to be novel too! They decided to go against common grain of familiarity and immediate perceived ease of use, but didn't just add a billion fields to configure everything with a dense manual - they try to offer just-in-time help pages that offer analogies and examples for the stuff you are configuring.<p>I wish them all the best! Hope people find it worthwhile to invest some time in learning the product (it will definitely be somewhat necessary)
"Nobody ever got fired for buying Atlassian."<p>Well, sure, but that doesn't mean it's too late to start doing that now?<p>I really try to like the Atlassian tools that we have, but they just make it so damn hard. I often wonder if the people at Atlassian use those tools themselves, because if so, why don't they fix the obvious issues. Just today, maybe not the most obvious issue, perhaps, Bitbucket decided to execute the "master" pipeline for a build that clearly wasn't off the "master" branch, thus pushing unmerged code into the Staging environment. Nice trick, Atlassian!
I am evaluating work tracking tools and signed up for this after someone on my team linked to the joke lander and once I figured out it was a real app.<p>Looks quite promising although no mobile is a tough pill to swallow.<p>I could go on but just an interesting side thought: people who design these should get a special title - Meta PM? Seems like you have to meet a very high bar of minimum stuff “everyone” has, at about the same price, while still having some degree of Jobs-ian stubbornness because you will NEVER satisfy everyone
I think this company made me laugh and destroyed their brand in one shot.<p>I'm not sure what to think, especially considering this is a legitimate product.
finally, someone who advertises how bad they are, the idea I've had for a while and like to call "reverse advertising"...
I love it...
now, if only I had a team to convert...
Pretty cool stuff, i know ive asked for some of these features as my team uses asana for as much as we can and jira was super slow and clunky back in the day - though i checked it out recently and it seems like a much better experience.<p>In the tool the modals could really use a X button to close the modal, the 2 or 3 seconds i second guessed where to click each time was annoying. It would be cool to discover if asana had some of these features all of a sudden but i think putting so many features front and center is going to hurt your adoption. Slack for instances can be easily underused as simply a chat application, later on the tech guy shows up and starts dropping in chat bots and cool helpers and what not. The relationship stuff is pretty cool i hope i dig more into this stuff later.<p>Also are you guys planning on expanding the signup options beyond google/microsoft? it was easy for me to signup just curious how much of a roadblock that is to the rest of the internet.
I've seen such ironic,self-deprecating media in advertising on TV -- but a SAAS's landing page? Bold.<p>The stickiness and success could make this a mini-trend which dies out quickly, comes back five years from now, and then lives on forever as paradoxically ironic.
Well done. I actually want to test this product.<p>Hard to say why but something resonates with me. Maybe it is that I love working in a desktop environment (KDE) that people love to trash lime this yet is really comfortable for me.<p>Or maybe I'm just so fed up with landing pages and this was just different.
Although I find the page funny, I find the HN title rather clickbaity. The HN rules explicitly discourage editorializing this way. Isn’t there a better title?