Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
Firstly, congratulations on your launch!<p>My personal opinion as a Product Manager is that there is no all-in-one tool, there never will be an all-in-one tool, and anyone promising an all-in-one tool has some significant blinders on around the job functions they have been exposed to.<p>Sales will use Salesforce. Engineering will use JIRA. And Product will use some generic roadmap-first tool like Asana, Trello, Miro, Monday, or MS Project. Product will beg everyone to use their tool, but no one will because it&#x27;s for looking at work, not executing on it.<p>Product will not understand because we Product Managers don&#x27;t actually DO things, we talk to people, organize ideas at a coarse level - and we have a simple tool that articulates the vision perfectly! Except it doesn&#x27;t automatically integrate with the CI&#x2F;CD pipeline, it doesn&#x27;t automatically log the last touch with a high-priority prospect, it doesn&#x27;t pass designs from the designer to the UX engineer. It doesn&#x27;t actually DO anything. It becomes just another SaaS platform in our Okta stack that only the PMs look at - and it gets out of sync with the actual reality reflected in the other SaaS offerings.<p>And the reason it doesn&#x27;t do those things is because the people who built it thought that THEY were the ones who could build the all-in-one project management tool and all those sales people, engineers, designers, lawyers, and marketing writers would log in to theirs. Insert relevant XKCD about standards here. The truth is no PM tool will ever be the system of record for the actual work, but everyone is afraid that the complexity of integrating with others will turn them into JIRA.<p>So we get these vaguely opinionated ways of moving around and arranging candy-colored cards, and those cards never quite show us the state of the project we are managing, so we have to bug people to &quot;update their status in &lt;Monday&#x2F;Asana&#x2F;Trello&gt;&quot; before the weekly meeting. Which they don&#x27;t want to do because it delivers no value to THEM.<p>Which is all a long-winded way of saying - please think about how a piece of work from each of those functions might be represented in your view, and how that integration would happen automatically.