Feedback on new idea for work schedule & planner
https://tasks.withcomb.com
I had an idea for a new product and wanted to gauge the interest. I created a landing page (https://tasks.withcomb.com), but briefly the app presents you with a daily work schedule where incomplete tasks roll over to the next day, and you can plan out your work with multiple scenarios that run simultaneously to account for uncertainties in the future.
Does this provide any value over the existing solutions (Asana, Trello, UpClick, etc.)? Does the landing page convey the value proposition?
Thanks for the taking a look! Really means a lot!
I'll be honest in saying that your idea doesn't intrigue me enough to consider proposing a switch from what my company currently uses (basecamp). Everyone has an opinion on what a good task manager is. You seem to have an idea on a problem spot on current offerings. I would dig into reviews of other offerings further to insure you're solving a problem that exists for multiple users. Also, it would be helpful to know who your audience is. Are you targeting big enterprise level businesses or less than 100 employee small businesses? The bigger you go, the more you'll need burndown charts etc.
Thanks so much for the feedback! Definitely worth looking through reviews, thanks! Audience is SMBs, probably less than 300 people. Although I'm sure some really big players have different teams using different products. Not really interested in the big enterprise side at the moment.
What would get you to switch from basecamp?
So I work at a full service digital marketing agency with about 65 people and over 100 clients. I'd love to switch from basecamp, but the archives are full of old projects/web designs. That's probably why we're stuck with it for now. Another thing to mention is that we do time tracking in a separate app altogether(harvest) that doesn't sync at all with basecamp. Do you have or have you considered a time tracking feature? Also client reporting is a pretty big deal to us as well. Answering the question from clients "How much time was spent on {this} task this month?" in addition to "What was done for us this month?".
We've spoken to another agency who also have issues with time tracking so it's definitely a priority. Time tracking in a separate app is awful 😟 We will have built-in time tracking & reporting that you mentioned in addition to budgeted/estimated vs actual.
Why do you need the old projects? Are they revived for repeat customers, or is there information/designs that are referred to for new work?
For new clients in the same industry, designers and account managers like to go back and look at what was done/budgeted previously in order to have some type of guideline on a current/future project. I think the "budgeted/estimated vs actual" idea you mentioned is important. I had to build a standalone tool for my company to do some of this stuff because everything was being done in spreadsheets. It manages like $10M in budget allocations every month. It's now become my primary responsibility. It's so custom though that it wouldn't work for other companies or business models.