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Eight months have passed since the last Fibery digest, and it's time to reflect on the past and share future plans. From narrowing down core use cases to re-positioning Fibery as a no-code product discovery & development platform

If Fibery wasn't your top choice as a PM, it definitely will be from now on. Analyze user feedback & market signals, identify top insights, and unite discovery with development: this is Fibery 2.0

We've been busy working on Fibery 2.0 and now it's finally here! Read Michael's article to see what it means to you as an existing Fibery customer.

Tune in for the results of the 2nd annual Slow December at Fibery. Contrary to popular belief, it was not just about chilling and procrastinating: our team experimented a lot and shipped features that you might already be using.

TLDR: 160 new customers (and 340 total) ❤️. 300 new features and 1300 fixed bugs 💪. 45 new releases 🌶️. 8 new teammates 🇫🇮🇵🇱🇨🇾🇨🇭🇵🇱🇭🇺🇵🇱🇵🇱. First offline retreat ✈️. No status meetings ✏️. Inevitable AI 👾. Slow December 🐢. Dopamine and cortisol 😍😨.

🥊 Startups are struggling. 🇵🇱 +1 Developer. 🇵🇱 +1 Designer. 🇭🇺 +1 Writer. 👓 Content marketing. 💸 Financial management. 👩‍🔬 Home page experiments. 🏋️‍♀️ 6 product themes are in progress. 🥹 Per-entity permissions are close...

One of the fundamental requirements of financial operations is to ensure that you have all your paperwork in order. In this article, we will explain why Fibery is a great addition to any accounting software and how to set up an accurate process for managing financial docs in Fibery.

Fibery is an all-in-one task and knowledge management tool for product companies, and when we say all-in-one, we mean it. We run all our operations, including financial ones, in Fibery. Before any tool there is a process, often not an obvious one.

This post offers a comprehensive analysis of the root cause of the downtime and provides actionable steps to prevent similar incidents in the future. It aims to openly address our failure and assist other companies in learning from our experience. We also owe our customers an explanation.

☀️ Fibery retreat. 😅 New (old) positioning. 🃏 Teams re-structuring and Fibery product roadmap. 💔 Product Market Fit. 🇵🇱 +1 Educator. 💸 Cashflow and other reports. 👩‍🔬 Home page experiments. 🏄‍♀️ Product improvements: Documents, Emojis, Search.

🇨🇭 +1 Head of Marketing. 🇨🇾 +1 COO. 🇵🇱 +1 Customer Success Specialist. 💰 $50K MRR. 🍳 -1 PR Agency. 🌊 Planning our true first offline company retreat. 🗺️ Map View. 🗞️ Documents improvements. ⭐️ Fibery + AI.

Learn how Fibery's AI tools can simplify building and operating your workspace with ease. Discover AI text assistant, AI in automations, and future plans.

$5.2M round A 💰. Tattoos bet 🔥. Fibery for Startups launch on Product Hunt 🍤. +1 Product Manager 🇫🇮. Co-working space in Warsaw 🇵🇱. Product Roadmap till May 2023 🔮. Fibery AI Assistant (experimental) 😅. SOC 2 Type II 🔓. Digest number 50 👴.

Fibery, the work and knowledge hub for startups 🧠 + 💪, today announced that it has raised $5.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Tal Ventures, with additional funding from Altair Capital.

Some Round A 🤑. Time for bundling! 🧶. Market demands profitability 🐻. $500K+ ARR 🐕. 200 new features 💪. 40 new releases 🌶. 150 active startups 🦄. Marketing wins and losses 💎. SOC 2 (almost) 🦒. 5 new teammates 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇨🇦. Full remote ✈️. Dopamine and cortisol 😁😨.

Communication in Fibery reflections 🤯. We are (still) hiring! 🙏. +1 Product Designer Aliaksei 🇵🇱. Video production 📸. Merch project 🎁. PR agency partnership 📣. 4 releases with tons of new features 🏋️‍♀️. Form View 😍.

100% free for startups with ARR < than ours (for 1 year), open-source projects, Ukrainian companies (till August 24, 2023). 50% discount for nonprofit & educational organizations and Ukrainian companies (from Aug 24, 2023, till 2030).

Petr 🇨🇿 joined our company as a head of business development 🥹. New home page 🟢. 4 releases with tons of new features 🏋️‍♀️. Form View (experimental) 🙏.

We are prepared 🤺. $40K MRR 🤑. +1 developer (Dmitry) 🇵🇱. We are hiring! 🦄 CTO group 🕹. Status page 🚦. New relation lists 🏃‍♂️

Michael is on vacation 🌴. Team takes over this post 🤪. +Kasper 👨‍🏫. Book recs 📚. Buttons on Entity View 🗿. Revert changes in Entity activity log 🪀.

Marketing reflexion 🧐. Support is overloaded 🏋️‍♀️. Dark Theme 🌚. Send Emails and Slack messages from Fibery 🎙. Hide Fields from Entity View 🙈.

Record growth with +$4K MRR 😅. 50% discount for nonprofit and educational 🏋️‍♀️. 100% discount for open-source projects 😎. Panels Navigation fun 🤪. Share Space to the web 🌍. Pinned fields 📍. Hierarchical checkboxes list 🌲.

Growth recovered 😅. Some re-structuring 🏋️‍♀️. Digital Agency solution 🦋. How Fibery uses Fibery video 🧘‍♀️. Fibery End Game 🎲. Phishing story 🎣. Search in panels 🔦. Customize pinned Fields 📍. Change workspace name and logo 🔧.

Ukrainian war affected our performance. $30K MRR 🐌. 69 reviews in G2 ❤️. Marketing for customer-built products is hard 🥉. 12 customer stories 👻. 2 hours downtime 🥲. New navigation ⛵️. My Space 🔒.

How 2.5 hours downtime happened. What was the root cause. What we learned.

Russia should stop this war.

Fibery startup news: Activation metric works. The activation trend is not. Max joined the team. Ilya is mixing things. MRR is growing. The outreach channel failed (again). 770 bugs. Feed View. Experimental navigation you will enjoy.

Independence. Emigration & remote work. $3.1M Seed round. Booming market. 58 posts in our blog. $290K ARR. 100 new features. 32 new releases. Fibery for Product Teams release. Some product/market fit. 4 new people.

New getting started concept. New pricing. In search of Activation Metric. Animalz cooperation failed. Promising leads. Live onboarding experiment results. Three new releases.

Does a CEO have to love small talk and networking? Behold eight tips on how to avoid it and still be a successful introverted CEO.

Activation stats. Experiment with Fibery structure. Experiment with a 90-days trial. Experiment with live onboarding. Experiment with an outreach agency. Partners program. New features.

TLDR: Meditations on complexity. Fibery Partners program. New templates. Automations rules webinar. Huge WIP.

Special Startup Diary edition. 20k MRR & 15 new customers! +Chris. +Sales agency. 4 case studies. Airtable integration & notify people action.

TLDR: We closed $3.1M seed round. Building a second brain for teams. Fibery mission. Building in Public. Automation rules. Documents and Rich Text history.

We, at Fibery, are helping teams solve complex problems, and happy to announce that today we closed a $3.1M seed round led by Altair Capital.

Thinking about the next big thing. Fibery for startups webinar. Fibery vs. ClickUp. Minsk office is closed. Share Documents and Entities. Group permissions

Goals and KPIs can destroy the workflow. How can meaningful objectives be disruptive? Learn to avoid the mess in setting goals and KPIs in just one simple step.

Emigration from Belarus. 90-days trial. Lemonade! -Anna, +Ilya. Web site changes. Full-text search. Cumulative reports. SAML SSO.

4 new releases. 11 new customers. Automated actions. Undelete things. Crazy Thursday aka 'Der CollabdocDenburg'. Fibery for User Research.

Use this easy rule of thumb to know when to close a startup instead of staying a “promising company” that won’t deliver anything in the next ten years.

Check out what transparency in the workplace can bring your company — and how no transparency screws everything up.

Better traction and $10K MRR. 13 new customers. Fibery 2.0 foundation. Regular posts in our blog. First webinar. Super Polina. More explanatory videos.

Many demos for product teams. Product Teams A/B Test. Complexity. Other niches experiments paused. New roadmap. Hierarchical Lists View released.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fibery startup progress in August 2020: Elections in Belarus. WTF??? Violence. Shock. Revolution. Depression. Hope.

Fibery startup progress in July 2020. More customers. Terms Sheet with VC is finally 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.

$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.

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.

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.

First true customers. 100 active accounts. +Polina. Up to speed. −Telemetry. Still no public launch. Independence!

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.

Nikita is back! New web site. Pricing simplified. Sidebar 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.

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

Fibery startup progress in June 2019: Public API and Formulas are completed. Release is closer. Team got crazier.

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.

Fibery startup progress in March 2019: We’ve provided access to Fibery to 100 accounts and collected some feedback.

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.

Fibery startup progress in January 2019: Private beta goals, selecting a market positioning (hard), apps re-design.

Company: decreased burn rate. Product changes: formulas, filters, timeline improvements, create entities in batches.

Fibery startup results in November 2018. Good development speed, new app creation flow, wiki, customizable entity view.

Fibery startup progress in October 2018: Alpha version feedback, new web site, custom app creation, apps import and export.

Fibery startup progress in September 2018. Slow month with not so many news. First positive feedback. Company name selection.

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

Overview of the Fibery vision. Building blocks and main concepts. Custom Domain. Custom Rules. UI Components. Apps.

We are looking for a seasoned product manager with a repulsive need to write (and share) their revolutionary, edgy, and snarky thoughts on any topic related to product management

Help us tell the amazing story of Fibery and connect us with product companies and leaders. 🧡