Echoing others: screenshots, demo that doesn't require data harvesting (ahem, "sign ups").
Personal feedback:
* Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation. Needs substantially more documentation about production-ready setups at the very least, especially security considerations.
* Would also add additional Quick Start guides for Kubernetes.
* Documentation should also cover rationale behind prerequisite choices. RabbitMQ is Broadcom's domain, and there's a lot of sour grapes out there who want to steer clear of them, MPL-licensed or not. If alternatives won't be suggested or offered, then at least explain why a given piece was chosen so other builders can explore contributing alternatives.
All in all, the essentials seem to be coming along nicely. Just take the time to document, document, document now, so you're not treading technical debt later should its use take off.
> * Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation.
As an author of a DevOps tool [1] based around Compose files, I beg to differ! It should be pretty easy to adapt the config from the README to use in medium-scale production setups [2] (the only thing that comes to mind is a reverse proxy perhaps).
I think I’ll add Kaneo to the Lunni Marketplace after some more testing!
I would also add to this list of annoyances that new despicable trend to replace the "See on Github" familiar button into a "Star on Github" button that tries to steal a star.
I was super interested in this, but I bounced from your landing page after about 30 second. Echoing what everyone else says:
- Put screenshots on the landing page
- If I click "Try Demo" I just get sent to a log in page and I have no idea what to do next. I don't even want to try a demo, I just want to know what the damn product looks like. If I've got to create an account just to see your product, that's an instant bounce from me.
Fixing both of those would be ideal, but fixing even one would be a massive help.
Hey y'all, I'm Andrej. The developer behind Kaneo. Sorry for not inserting any screenshots. Honestly this software is still in beta and I'm still working on this. Thank you for the feedback. I had
- I will remove the sign ups for the demo
- Add more screenshots
This is a passion project as someone mentioned. I love open source and it will always stay free. Hopefully I'll be able to share it whenever it's complete it.
Appreciate it must be frustrating to get a lot of (repeated) suggestions for things that are already further down your todo list.
Let me add one and a half. : )
Comparison / advantages (even if anticipated rather than current) over competitive products in this space, which I assume are things like Planka, Kanboard, and other similarly generous and responsibly licensed kanban/project-management tools.
Tangentially related, in your documentation a discussion around your architecture decisions - f.e. rabbitmq, sqlite.
Hi Andrej, thanks for building this and congrats on getting to the first page!
I’ve signed up for the demo and here’s some feedback:
- Forms should display some kind of feedback while being submitted. Maybe put a spinner on the button? To test that it works correctly, you can set up net throttling in the browser devtools.
- Onboarding could be more straightforward: instead of the Create your first workspace screen, just show the form directly. Same with the first project: you can even show the form while the workspace is being created perhaps, to minimize the wait.
- Right now, every reload blocks on a GET /me request. Looking at a spinner for a few seconds doesn’t feel great! Perhaps you can cache current user data? (you can then update it in the background, a-la SWR)
- By the way: maybe returning password hash in GET /me isn’t a great idea :^)
- On the project page, it seems to connect to the same websocket endpoint 5 times. I didn’t read the source code yet but I think there’s something weird going on with the state management?
Hope this helps! Let me know if you need anything.
This looks fantastic. Thanks for open-sourcing this. For a passion project this looks really polished and well done.
I know a lot of people have crazy expectations from open-source projects these days - and many of the comments here echo those, but you can gradually evolve it at your own pace. You don't owe folks anything.
The feature cards trying to look like stacks is also weird. In addition, I would expect clicking on (say) “Visual Task Management” to show a page with a more detailed description of that feature, along with screenshots showcasing it. Lastly, the page doesn’t seem to support light mode.
Congratulations on the release. While I echo the sentiments from others that screenshots or a video would've been very useful, the signup works without an email confirmation which is great, so I was able to see how the interface looks like. It has a very linear like feel https://linear.app/.
- If you could deploy a demo that doesn't require a signup/sign in, it'll make things a lot easier. You can reset it every x hours.
- The feature list is empty as I can't see what it offers or a comparison to other
tools.
- After creating a task, I can't edit it.
Project management is very complicated and there's different groups of users, which one is yours? Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Small shops that need something cheap? Hobbyists or students?
I'm selfhosting vikunja https://vikunja.io/ at the moment. Opensource and supports my selfhosted sso.
Looking at the GitHub project, this looks to be a passion project more than a community driven one. It's great to see a project like that getting some eyes and potentially attracting contributors. If anything, the main website is a little misleading in this regard.
Little technical nitpick - I would have prioritized moving off of a shared-volume sqlite database before introducing a backend message queue.
When trying a demo of some online tool, I'm always a bit sad to land onto an empty space devoid of any trial data. Please authors out there: think about offering a pre-populated demo instance instead, so that it's much simpler to see what the app looks like for real. Also, an interresting data set speaks more in favor of your project than a black screen.
I got the same issue than already reported: When trying to edit a task, all I got is a black screen saying "Task edit". Nothing seamingly related in the JS console.
Also, I was mostly interrested to have a look at the "project timeline" but it's not obvious where to access that.
Same goes for the automation part. How to access that?
The point of demo is to make it as easy as possible to try your product. Having people register really defeats the purpose. Either get rid of login phase for demo, or at least prefill input fields with some demo user/password pair.
Would be cool if this had a terraform script and was deployable to an AWS serverless stack (lambda, lambda SSE for sockets, SQS, Aurora serverless, cognito).
It would be surprising if anyone broke out of free tier and it makes hosting a breeze.
The "Features" and "Community" links don't navigate/ scroll anywhere for me. Using Chrome 133 arm64 on macOS.
As an aside, is it just me or do a lot of these new project management apps coopt Linear's style? Not saying that this is completely derivative, the website just gave me those vibes (and I won't sign up to try out the demo so maybe some screenshots on the front page would be nice :P)
Hey, thank for your feedback. This product wasn't meant to be posted since it's under heavy development. I will add some more screenshots and make the demo possible without signing up.
stego-tech|1 year ago
Personal feedback:
* Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation. Needs substantially more documentation about production-ready setups at the very least, especially security considerations.
* Would also add additional Quick Start guides for Kubernetes.
* Documentation should also cover rationale behind prerequisite choices. RabbitMQ is Broadcom's domain, and there's a lot of sour grapes out there who want to steer clear of them, MPL-licensed or not. If alternatives won't be suggested or offered, then at least explain why a given piece was chosen so other builders can explore contributing alternatives.
All in all, the essentials seem to be coming along nicely. Just take the time to document, document, document now, so you're not treading technical debt later should its use take off.
WhyNotHugo|1 year ago
flkenosad|1 year ago
notpushkin|1 year ago
As an author of a DevOps tool [1] based around Compose files, I beg to differ! It should be pretty easy to adapt the config from the README to use in medium-scale production setups [2] (the only thing that comes to mind is a reverse proxy perhaps).
I think I’ll add Kaneo to the Lunni Marketplace after some more testing!
[1]: https://lunni.dev/
[2]: Read: small to medium sized businesses, startups without a lot of funding etc.
MortyWaves|1 year ago
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superfrank|1 year ago
- Put screenshots on the landing page
- If I click "Try Demo" I just get sent to a log in page and I have no idea what to do next. I don't even want to try a demo, I just want to know what the damn product looks like. If I've got to create an account just to see your product, that's an instant bounce from me.
Fixing both of those would be ideal, but fixing even one would be a massive help.
jofzar|1 year ago
aacevski|1 year ago
- I will remove the sign ups for the demo - Add more screenshots
This is a passion project as someone mentioned. I love open source and it will always stay free. Hopefully I'll be able to share it whenever it's complete it.
PS: I had no idea this was posted here
Thank you all.
Jedd|1 year ago
Let me add one and a half. : )
Comparison / advantages (even if anticipated rather than current) over competitive products in this space, which I assume are things like Planka, Kanboard, and other similarly generous and responsibly licensed kanban/project-management tools.
Tangentially related, in your documentation a discussion around your architecture decisions - f.e. rabbitmq, sqlite.
adastra22|1 year ago
notpushkin|1 year ago
I’ve signed up for the demo and here’s some feedback:
- Forms should display some kind of feedback while being submitted. Maybe put a spinner on the button? To test that it works correctly, you can set up net throttling in the browser devtools.
- Onboarding could be more straightforward: instead of the Create your first workspace screen, just show the form directly. Same with the first project: you can even show the form while the workspace is being created perhaps, to minimize the wait.
- Right now, every reload blocks on a GET /me request. Looking at a spinner for a few seconds doesn’t feel great! Perhaps you can cache current user data? (you can then update it in the background, a-la SWR)
- By the way: maybe returning password hash in GET /me isn’t a great idea :^)
- On the project page, it seems to connect to the same websocket endpoint 5 times. I didn’t read the source code yet but I think there’s something weird going on with the state management?
Hope this helps! Let me know if you need anything.
lf-non|1 year ago
I know a lot of people have crazy expectations from open-source projects these days - and many of the comments here echo those, but you can gradually evolve it at your own pace. You don't owe folks anything.
fuomag9|1 year ago
yodon|1 year ago
gclawes|1 year ago
Xiol32|1 year ago
remram|1 year ago
I hope the product is different, but I have no way to find out since no public demo.
layer8|1 year ago
eGQjxkKF6fif|1 year ago
jofzar|1 year ago
pratio|1 year ago
- If you could deploy a demo that doesn't require a signup/sign in, it'll make things a lot easier. You can reset it every x hours.
- The feature list is empty as I can't see what it offers or a comparison to other tools.
- After creating a task, I can't edit it.
Project management is very complicated and there's different groups of users, which one is yours? Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Small shops that need something cheap? Hobbyists or students?
I'm selfhosting vikunja https://vikunja.io/ at the moment. Opensource and supports my selfhosted sso.
You can find more here
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab...
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab...
Once again kudos on releasing and opensourcing it.
brimstedt|1 year ago
Not necessarily true. Id like to replace jira in an enterprise environment and we do need sso and prefer to self host.
preezer|1 year ago
cloudking|1 year ago
robertclaus|1 year ago
Little technical nitpick - I would have prioritized moving off of a shared-volume sqlite database before introducing a backend message queue.
rixed|1 year ago
rixed|1 year ago
Also, I was mostly interrested to have a look at the "project timeline" but it's not obvious where to access that. Same goes for the automation part. How to access that?
aacevski|1 year ago
Again, thank you HackerNews, this is a dream to me and I can't believe the traction this projected received.
jsomedon|1 year ago
apatheticonion|1 year ago
It would be surprising if anyone broke out of free tier and it makes hosting a breeze.
gatienboquet|1 year ago
> After spending 20 sec on the website i have no idea what the app look like
> Leave
G1N|1 year ago
As an aside, is it just me or do a lot of these new project management apps coopt Linear's style? Not saying that this is completely derivative, the website just gave me those vibes (and I won't sign up to try out the demo so maybe some screenshots on the front page would be nice :P)
aacevski|1 year ago
lasarkolja|1 year ago
After I clicked on the demo link, I want to be able to use all functions
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