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TLDR: We’ve provided access to Fibery to 100 accounts and collected some feedback.
Flashback: #7: Pushing Private Beta in February 2019
As usual, main numbers (→
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Product: Fibery — SaaS B2B (SMB) work management platform
Stage: Private Beta
Launch: early 2020? (public)
Development: 25 months
Cold leads: 850 → 1350
Accounts Setup: 50 → 100
Customers: 10 → 15 (100 is the first goal)
Team size: 10 people
Burn rate: ~$40K/month
MRR: $0
In March we were busy with three things:
We’ve setup 95 accounts and got decent feedback from 35 accounts. Several of them use Fibery intensively in production. It is hard to generalize based on 35 accounts, but some trends are shaping up.
We clearly have two types of leads:
Here are some typical examples (there are quite many similar requests):
Notion-like:
We're interested in a hybrid all-in-one Airtable-Notion solution, and it sounds like you're building Fibery to be just that. We recently started looking into Notion because our company organization, mostly done through Google Drive, was getting out of hand. Unfortunately, we're already finding limitations with Notion! Potential uses are: Keeping track of customers, vendors, and their status, and various internal handbooks.
not-JIRA:
I am highly unsatisfied with current solutions like Jira and Confluence and constantly looking for more versatile, easier to use and sort of "one stop shop" solution to organize my own and my team's work. I have heard positive feedback from your early adopters and would love to take a look at Fibery.
While early adopters find many bugs and ask for sane features, there are no major insights so far.
We know that Fibery lacks Import, Tables, Integrations, Notifications and Search. We were quite certain that these features are must have for a public release. And early feedback just confirmed that.
We feel that market opportunity is there. People tired of JIRA and are embracing very flexible tools with passion.
Creators era is coming! 💪
It seems that majority of early adopters can understand how Fibery work and try to solve their problems with Fibery. We were afraid that the concept might be hard to grasp. Most likely this is not the case.
First feedback is quite positive. Here are some examples:
Yes I'm using it and really enjoying the software up to now!!
... (feature requests)
In general, I can't wait for the software to become "fuller". Don't hesitate to reach out if I can give a hand testing stuff.
I'm trying Fibery for a few days now for project/product/issue/task management and other uses cases and I think the idea and result is already awesome and so powerful.
Can definitely see the potential!!!
We take such feedback with a grain of salt. Only real usage proves that system provides some value.
We are still collecting feedback and postponing a decision about future direction, but it seems there are quite many things to do before a public release.
So far we are targeting Jan 2020 for this major event in our company.
Significant effort was applied to bug fixing. Here is the current picture:
As you see, we have no convergence yet. Every week 20+ bugs are piling up. Quality and stability is improving, but it seems it will take one more month to reach good quality level.
Fibery Slack Bot was released in March.
It can:
We don’t have in-house automation rules, so Zapier is a natural first step. Check it out:
Sorting is important for many cases and you can sort cards using several fields:
Sometimes you want to create a board with a subset of things in rows or columns. Now you can do it using filters.
One of the most requested feature after initial release was to change menu items order. Now you can do it.
We haven’t set final plans for the public release yet. Here is our current potential scope (to show you something). Most likely we will focus on Table View, performance improvements and Board View in April.
Public Release scope should be defined in a couple of weeks as well.
Random quote from our internal Slack channel
Good Design: A system should be built with a minimum set of unchangeable parts; those parts should be as general as possible; and all parts of the system should be held in a uniform framework.
Random link from our Slack channel
Random image from Slack channel.
To be continued → #9. Choosing the Right Road in April 2019.
P.S. No jokes in this post. So boring.
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