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Show HN: Crocagile – Web-based agile development tool

13 pointsby shaynbaronalmost 10 years ago

8 comments

pan69almost 10 years ago
I&#x27;m just a nobody but these are my 2 cents for what it&#x27;s worth.<p>1) I like the name.<p>2) Your pricing seems strange. I would make it $15 per month which includes 5 users and charge $2.50 for every extra user.<p>3) Regardless of the features you have, your product doesn&#x27;t feel polished enough for me to take it serious.<p>4) I will be holding this up to a Jira, why should I use your product instead? I.e; who is your audience?
hayksaakianalmost 10 years ago
It&#x27;d be nice if you included some &quot;dummy data&quot; instead of requiring me to fill everything into the demo<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;cqOaSKY.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;cqOaSKY.png</a>
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jlaroccoalmost 10 years ago
Wow, rough crowd.<p>I like the interface. It&#x27;s like a mix between Jira and Trello. More focused than Jira, with more structure than Trello.<p>I don&#x27;t really like Jira because of its kitchen sink approach. It tries to be everything to everybody with endless customization and options. It gives fifty ways to do everything and there&#x27;s a different way to do any particular thing on every single page. As a developer, it annoys the hell out of me by making me spend way more time than I want to navigating through project management software. Not having all of the features of Jira isn&#x27;t necessarily a bad thing, IMO.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what people are expecting when they say the site doesn&#x27;t feel &quot;polished enough.&quot; It works fine for me, and is as polished as any web app, AFAICT.<p>On the negative side, I think I get what you&#x27;re saying about the pricing, but it is a little confusing. One idea would be to make it free for personal projects, but charge for collaboration, similar to how BitBucket does it.
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pbreitalmost 10 years ago
Hate to say it but, it&#x27;s not very good. I can&#x27;t imagine anyone using it. At first it sounded like it might be full blown project management like Basecamp, Jira, etc. But it&#x27;s actually just really really basic To Do lists. Project&#x2F;task management is such a crucial tool for a company&#x2F;organization that there&#x27;s just no way they are going to opt to run their business on this. All the Learn and Share stuff is a major distraction with little value. The user experience is very rough both aesthetically and functionally. The &quot;no email required&quot; callout is odd as that makes very little sense. There&#x27;s just an overall lack of focus and quality.<p>My advice would be to pick a much narrower use case and really nailing it. Instead this looks like the lowest of lowest common denominators and I would advise anyone to stay away.<p>Edit: the videos seem to show a lot more stuff than what I was able to find. Perhaps because I wasn&#x27;t able to update? (error message said I have to &quot;PUT&quot; to a URL). I didn&#x27;t see where the Trello-style post-it board was.<p>Edit: It looks like you&#x27;re trying to be Jira, Trello, Yammer, Dropbox, Slack? It looks like sort of a Winchester Mystery House of endless cranking on product features with no real rhyme or reason or cohesion for any of it. That is a clear recipe for failure.
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aaronraualmost 10 years ago
Interesting concept. I was actually thinking about building something similar. Now I see just how hard it is. The problem is trying to take a complex system of tools; messaging, wiki, project management, dropbox, integrating it into a simple solution and more powerful solution.<p>Mobile Apps &amp; Mobile Games are good examples to look at for their onboarding process. You have to win the user in 1.5 minutes.
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dandanisauralmost 10 years ago
When looking at pricing, you&#x27;ve got &#x27;Croc is $5&#x27; and &#x27;Croc is free&#x27; in your subheadings. It&#x27;s contradictory and seems weird. Would be nice to clean that up.<p>Here is a fairly good example from bitbucket: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;plans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;plans</a>
dakenalmost 10 years ago
I find it a bit frustrating to have to request a free trial before seeing anything at all about your product. Any videos out there? Or images?
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reilly3000almost 10 years ago
The demo site isn&#x27;t usable for me on iPhone 6 Plus. I think the issue is the top bar breaking the lightbox pop-ups.
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