Interesting to hear another story of someone finding space in a crowded market segment.
> I was working for a company a couple of years ago and we needed a tool to do retrospectives and the existing solutions we found were not designed well and didn’t work all that great, not to mention the bigger solutions costing a lot of money to use for a relatively small need that we had. I set out to build a simple, affordable solution that looked good too.
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> Retrospect has come a long way since the initial launch about two years ago, we have provided more permissions, more functionality, and improved the experience. The future has a lot of potential for new features and growth.
More features and more integration... Seem like most products work towards becoming the next complex, do-everything software, only to be replaced by yet another "simple" solution without the endless bells and whistles. They both have their place, but sometimes it's hard to find a simple software solution whose owners don't aspire to be the next big complicated solution. Perhaps I'm reading too much into interview...
I 100% agree one "bloat" risk of adding more and more functionality. We have been very careful not to build anything that is complex or clutters the experience. One potential area that we need to do better on is the "team" experience though. Right now every user is siloed into their own area, with the tool being so "company" focused it makes sense to bring some company based features. (Shared/Bookmarked Boards, Grouping, Manage Users, etc.) With that said, we may not either, it might not make sense bloat wise.
We have no interest in trying to "beat" our competitors (Trello essentially) or match all their features, we simply want to compliment other tools that people use.
> I was working for a company a couple of years ago and we needed a tool to do retrospectives and the existing solutions we found were not designed well and didn’t work all that great, not to mention the bigger solutions costing a lot of money to use for a relatively small need that we had. I set out to build a simple, affordable solution that looked good too.
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> Retrospect has come a long way since the initial launch about two years ago, we have provided more permissions, more functionality, and improved the experience. The future has a lot of potential for new features and growth.
More features and more integration... Seem like most products work towards becoming the next complex, do-everything software, only to be replaced by yet another "simple" solution without the endless bells and whistles. They both have their place, but sometimes it's hard to find a simple software solution whose owners don't aspire to be the next big complicated solution. Perhaps I'm reading too much into interview...