There is an important decision to make: build a lifestyle business or a startup? And the sooner you decide, the sooner you will stop worrying and start living.

The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.

Quite many top startups had a transformative near-death experience that changed everything and help them to find a path to success.

Looking for the Product Marketing Designer to generate endless video explainers and banner ads with outdated Fibery jokes.

Independence and freedom. Fibery for Product Teams release. Some marketing activities started. Kate joined our marketing team. Fantastic reviews from our customers.

Connect Fibery to hundreds of other tools and automate routine tasks with no code.

Free for individuals and early-stage startups, $100/month for teams, $500/month for companies.

Fibery 2.0 release moved to January 2021. Not so many new features, but expect a new burst soon. Anna joined our company as the Head of Marketing. Winter (or Summer) came.

TLDR: First integrations are released. Product teams validation is in progress. Hope to have Fibery 2.0 launch in December. We are still looking for Head of Marketing

How to log hours manually or with a timer, generate timesheet for each person, and create flashy project reports

Got $700K tranche. Cooperation with the new design agency. Start of a direct sales experiment. Product workspace is coming. Integrations are coming. We are looking for Head of Marketing.

Elections. WTF??? Violence. Shock. Revolution. Depression. Hope.

More customers. Terms Sheet is signed. Better North Star metric.

Vizydrop team will join Fibery in August. Terms Sheet with the VC fund is negotiated and confirmed. Stability problems resolved. Performance improved. New blog delivered. Fibery sticks better.

Starting from today, when you mention an entity in Fibery, a back-reference appears on its page.

$1M confirmed from angels for the seed round. Deeper negotiation with a VC fund. Tons of content. Largest customer. Roadmap for the next 3 months is nailed. Chaos.

Deep review of Coda and Fibery on a real case. Coda is a set of powerful docs / Fibery is a set of connected apps.

Deep review of Airtable and Fibery on a real case. Airtable is a set of connected tables / Fibery is a set of connected apps.

Notion is an awesome product. However, it’s not perfect. Let’s find out why.

Public launch April 1st. Product of the Day on PH. Some offers from VC. Super-productive month. Better activity, but stagnating MRR. Cool Whiteboard View. Remote.

Features prioritization is the hardest problem in product management. Learn how to get better in it using... networks.

In this article I tried to briefly review all possible ways to add automation layer into a system.

Wiki concept is not new. But in Fibery it has a new twist.

Panic mode. +Pavel +Alexey. Productivity soars. No VC. Remote. New pricing scheme. New getting started.

Introducing Fibery 1.0 — a modular workspace that replaces costly isolated tools and brings teams together.

Public announcements moved to February. -Nikita. -VC. -Snow. -Speed. Cortisol pit. Crossing Valley of death. Optimism.

Public announcements moved to January. +Lena. Tons of feedback. First money! Hype is over. We consider rising a ~$4M round.

Fibery 1.0 is silently launched. Silence is hard to keep. HackerNews front page. Twitter madness. 3000 registered accounts.

Today we’ve released the very first version of Whiteboard View: draw diagrams, schemes, mind maps and flows.

Nikita is back! New web site. Pricing simplified. Left menu redesigned. Getting started experienced. Polishing is eternal.

Domain evolution is done. Notifications are done. Actions Buttons are done. Fall is free. Creators! Polishing is terrified.

Notifications are somewhat done. Rename is graceful. Action Buttons are born. Canvas View is growing. Javascript. HN banned us.

How to configure Fibery to manage many work processes.

Table View is done, Notifications are in progress, Automation Rules are postponed. Everybody is a unicorn. Serious shit! Summertime.

We’ve completed basic functionality for Table View in Fibery and are ready to share it with the world.

Public API and Formulas are completed. Release is closer. Team got crazier.

We create Fibery.io based on several main principles. They are short, deep and concrete.

Fibery supports formulas. So far Formula field supports Number only (Decimal or Integer). More data types will be added later (Date, Text…

Several people burned out, new features are delivered, public release will be sooner (we hope) (despite ill fortune).

We’ve fixed 60 bugs, completed some features, added one teammate and frustratedly discussed many potential options for Fibery future.

We’ve provided access to Fibery to 100 accounts and collected some feedback.

Our Slack Bot has no AI yet. However, it can be useful for many people.

Today we’ve released Zapier Integration in Fibery. You can connect many services together using Zapier and automate some actions.

We’ve released private beta in February. Now we are fixing bugs, setting up accounts, collecting feedback and think about future.

Fibery (work management platform) is two years in development already, and we are finally going to release something.

Private beta goals, selecting a market proposition, apps re-design.

Decreased burn rate, formulas, filters, timeline improvements.

Good development speed, new app creation flow, wiki.

Alpha version feedback, new web site, custom app creation, apps import and export.

This is the second post about our startup backstage. Slow month with not so many news.

This guide will help you to penetrate entrance barrier and internalize Fibery mental model. Thus you will freely navigate Fibery and tailor it to your own needs and cases.

Startup backstage is an interesting thing to observe. I’ll write regular posts about Fibery progress and results.