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Thank you! Currently we're focused on making it a great desktop experience but mobile is on our roadmap!
Posted by
afont on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:02PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.twigflo.com/
Hey HN,My dad, friend, and I have been working hard on building Twigflo, a flowchart-based project planning tool to help teams visualize their projects using the concept reverse planning.When I was a data consultant, I struggled keeping my team and clients aligned to a specific goal. Spreadsheets or equivalent tracking tools did a good job showing what to do but didn't explain why we were doing...
Twiglfo.com allows for this. You can put probabilities on nodes that make up a directed graph (think flowcharts). Bottlenecks and dependencies are also extremely easy to see in this UI.
As others have said, PM tools need to become more opinionated rather than recreating what already exists.
Not sure if the reply will go through since its been flagged. Thanks for taking the time to explore the app. The UX is a priority of ours in terms of highest on the list of upcoming improvements. Happy you found it interesting!
Thanks for taking a look sangupta! We're working towards data encryption and bettering our performance. Cheers!
Thanks for taking a look at the post!
Thanks al_borland. Appreciate you writing out your honest feedback.
The landing page could use a lot of updates - completely agree. We're drawing that up now.
I've used OKRs and RPMs. The way Ive used them is within slides which are pretty static. I have yet to find a great way to visualize them and make them more effective / part of the process.
Retaining knowledge: Its hard to piece together project plans, kan bans, statuses to understand how past team members accomplished a project (mission). The goal of this is to retain those steps, steps that become more efficient over time, in a branching structure.
I love the comment about putting mission at the top to stick with our products vision. Thanks for recommending that.
Video is on its way! Stay tuned.
Thanks again - cheers!
Thanks for taking the time to write this out waste_monk. I also use physical notes because theyre in the physical and cant avoid them. We're looking to give users a tool that anchors them to a goal rather than simply saying "lets do this now and hope it leads me in the right direction."
Yeah only supporting desktop atm. Thanks for taking a look!
Thanks cloudking! Can you explain what you mean? Gifs within the app to demonstrate the usage?
Thanks for the delightful feedback dmingod666! That's exactly right and our intent. We hope that this also serves as a knowledge retention strategy since all tasks are mapped out and you can use the latest and greatest from past learnings.
Currently we dont support phone or tablet. Also dealing with issues in windows. To be addressed (bootstrapping...)
Thanks for the screenshot. What do you mean by all nodes open this modal?
Thanks Ksaj! Really practical feedback. We'll get some of those changes incorporated
Going to update for more login options. Definitely need to upload the demo and "the why". Thanks for taking a look and stay tuned!
Took a look. Is it more of drawing dependencies in a gantt view?
Thanks for taking a look!
Really appreciate the honesty and I toned back the abrasive tone (late night HN). Getting the demo materials and docs prepared. Would love to get feedback next week when we have those on our homepage. Thanks for taking a look!
Posted by
afont on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:43PM
from the show-hn dept.
All the apps that allow you to put stickys on a board to manage progress are missing the point. Tasks to do tasks dont necessarily lead you to accomplishing your goals. I built a tool with my team that makes users align all work to their goals. No way around it. We call them missions. Let me know your thoughts! Roast it, love it, be confused by it...let us know! https://twigflo.com
Posted by
afont on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:37PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://twigflo.com/
I created a tool that forces solution-oriented people to build project plans with the end in mind. It's a visual network of nodes that tells a story. Built it because I was tired of the same old productivity tool that is just a post it board for to dos. Missions, I believe, will help build effective processes rather than needless processes. It'll also give project members ease of mind knowing...