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zube.io

Looks similar to Huboard: https://huboard.com

Huboard's cool and it's open source! Zube gives each developer their own row, so it's different from a traditional kanban board.

This looks really awesome, and I can't wait to check it out. However—when authorizing with Github, do I read this correctly as granting auth to all of my organizations? I can't do that. Is this configurable? praying

I don't think so, but I haven't fully explored it. I would love to implement it if I can. I know it's kind of a hack but your organization can whitelist 3rd party apps, which is probably a good idea if you have sensitive data.

https://help.github.com/articles/about-third-party-applicati...

I'd love to explore this further with you.

Hm, I'd like to try this, but it's going to take some time to talk with different people about what keys might be obviated (made before Feb 2014) ..... Argh....

> However—when authorizing with Github, do I read this correctly as granting auth to all of my organizations? I can't do that. Is this configurable? praying

As of now I don't think it's possible.

(Not the OP) I've talked to GitHub about this, and they said that granting access to only certain organizations is in the works, but not possible yet.

I've been interacting with GitHub for 3 years about Issue-only OAuth scopes: https://twitter.com/troyd/status/555782206321225728

They're aware of the demand and I assume it would exist if it was practical without moving mountains. More background: http://help.tacoapp.com/connectors/github-issues.html#access..., https://github.com/tacoapp/privacy-policy#conservative-defau...

Pretty cool, I've looked at some of the other alternatives mentioned in the comments before (huboard, waffle, zenhub), this actually looks like it may be more to my liking than the rest... Unfortunately, I'm now working in an environment where this won't be useful to me.

Some suggestions on other integrations... Stash, GitLab, BitBucket, Github Enterprise... Stash and GH Enterprise might be more difficult.

What type of environment are you working in? Those are great suggestions for integrations and we are very interested in adding integrations that help developers. Is there one that would make Zube usable for you?

I'm working at a large financial institution that's moving to git on stash internally, so unlikely I'd be able to use your product any time soon...

Honestly, I'd suggest working towards a solution to work with GH Enterprise, as that would probably align with your current structure better, it may be the most work, but it would be a point to more potential large business customers, and a better revenue model.

Thanks, that sounds like good advice.

Any chance you'll support GitLab projects?

Some of us have been waiting a while for a competing service to provide this support.

[1] https://gitlab.com/ [2] https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io/issues/926

Yeah, we're a full web app and we love integrations (GitHub is just the first) so GitLab seems very promising. We haven't looked into the specifics yet but we'd love to create integration #2!

We've been using Zube at Interviewed and really like it.

We'd been using Github Issues previously but found it hard to prioritize our tickets in a way that was natural for us. The ability to drag and drop reorder our backlog has really helped with that.

Also, the UI works well for quick updates during our morning standup.

So good to hear we've been able to help your team!

I really like the animated demo graphic you have in the imac. Can i ask how you made that?

Sure! It's a little hack that autoplays everywhere, browser and mobile. It's javascript that loops over numbered png images in the canvas tag. You can grab the js in the source of our homepage toward the bottom.

The process for creating the images is as follows:

Use quicktime to take a video, called demo.mov (or equivalent movie capture program with whatever file format)

Create a color palette from the movie $ ffmpeg -i demo.mov -vf fps=10,scale=1378:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png

Create a gif from the movie using the color palette $ ffmpeg -i demo.mov -i palette.png -filter_complex "fps=10,scale=1378:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" output.gif

Create a sequence of pngs from the gif $ convert -dispose Background -coalesce output.gif -colors 256 PNG8:target-%d.png

party!

Feel free to email us if you need any help!

Thanks a ton! Going to try this over thr weekend~~

Really like it so far, I prefer it to Waffle which we been using.

Only problem is I can't figure out how to edit the content of an issue once I opened the card?

Edit: Also trying to figure out how the Review state work compared to Waffle.

Thanks for trying it out! To edit a card, click the card on the board to open the card. Then you can click the title to edit it. Milestones and labels can be changed from the sidebar by clicking the gear or heading. At the moment you can't edit the initial comment with the card but we should have that fixed soon.

I'm not sure what you mean by your second question. On Zube, the In Review doesn't have a concrete meaning, that is, it doesn't affect the card's state beyond who the issue is assigned to. At Zube, we use the Review column for cards that we have completed but still need to test, have code reviewed or just want to keep an eye for unknown bugs.

Ah I see. I guess I was aplying Waffle concepts to your product. In Waffle, "In Review" is triggered by opening a pull request that mention the issue number in it's title.

I like the way that Zube is setup like Trello (cards & boards) but fully integrated with Github.

At first glance, I believe this will give me and my team better insights into what everyone on the engineering team is up to.

Hey, Aaron here, cofounder Zube. We really hope it does! Zube makes it super easy to keep your cards up to date, even if some of the people on your team continue to only use GitHub issues. We'd love some feedback after you've had a chance to try it out.

We've been using Zube for about a month and swapped it out for Asana in our workflow. (I know, I know). I've been following everything Jen has been doing since her 180 website/day project.

The devs have been really receptive to our feedback, which seems self-evident in this thread.

Looks great! Would love understand how it compares to ZenHub.io.

And waffle.io :)

Waffle.io is good product and Zube is similar. We're both web apps that sync with GitHub issues. As far as functionality, Zube gives you some things that Waffle does not:

Comments - syntax highlighting; @mentions, emojis, issue reference autocomplete; live updating from GitHub comments for things like comment updates and deletes (so your data is consistent)

Cards - Commit references, events, and card references. Consistency of data, especially when multiple users are moving cards at the same time.

Boards - add and remove users from the board

Labels - create, update, and delete labels from a repo (not just a card)

Milestones - create, update, and delete labels from a repo (not just a card)

Zube also has many UX features that differ from Waffle like each user having their own row. Creating cards in any row/column. Dedicated views for each milestone.

Waffle has some features that Zube doesn't support right now like burndown charts and search. I'm not an expert on Waffle or anything so please correct me if I'm in error. It's kinda hard to know everything that a competitor does.

Does Zube support having one board that covers multiple GitHub repos?

Waffle does this I'm pretty sure, but we don't have it yet. It's on our roadmap though!

We've had the request for multiple repos on one Zube board when talking with PMs and consulting firms and we're aware that it's important for them. However, we're laser focused on making developers happy and they've told us that they care more about managing issues for a single repository, so we implemented that first.

ZenHub is a great plugin for GitHub. It adds a kanban style board to your GitHub issues. Zube is not a Chrome extension, it's a full web app. The reason we made it a web app is because we really wanted to focus on making a product that developers love. With Zube you don't have to go to GitHub issues, and we believe the experience on Zube is much better than GitHub Issues.

Also Zube is fast :)

You can see our focus on developers by the layout of our board, which is more scrum style than kanban. Each developer has their own row. It makes it easy to see exactly what your tasks are. You can also assign issues by dragging the card over to the user's row, something that isn't possible with a kanban board like ZenHub. We care less about getting an overview of the whole project (what PMs care about) and more about what needs to be done (what devs care about)

We'll continue adding features that make developers happy whether they would fit into the GitHub Issues paradigm or not.

Hey, just got it all set up. Seems very neat!

I have a question: how can I view all issues? It seems I can only view issues without a milestone and issues in a milestone separately.

Thanks for trying it out! At the moment you can only view issues by milestone. We're working on a 'power user' view where you'll be able to view all of your issues, perform batched actions and other global type actions.

If this had time-tracking support, I would be able to migrate from Trello (time tracking provided by Trello Plus). Is this a possible feature?

We can run queries against events like issue open/close, labeled, miletstoned etc. so we can generate reports with time analytics. If it is just card open to close time, we could definitely bump that up or list!

For us it's a combination of a timesheet (so we can get paid) and a run down of time spent (vs estimated) on specific tasks. Those are the two important bits.

For reference: http://www.plusfortrello.com/p/about.html

EDIT: To clarify, since it's being used as a timesheet, we need a timer.

Thanks for the link! I think we'll have to add a new events table to track things like how long it takes to move from "Tasks" to "In Progress" to "In Review". It shouldn't be terribly challenging, and I love me some analytics.

Looks almost exactly like waffle.io that i saw like a day ago on HN new. Are the projects related?

Not related beyond us both wanting to make GitHub issues better :)

OP has come a long way from her a project a day. Glad to see that! Good luck!!

I've used ZenHub previously. What are the advantages of Zube over ZenHub?

I'm truly excited for your launch! Awesome job! What are the next steps?

Thanks! We're super focused on making developers happy. We're going to continue to make features that help developers be more productive and organized. One feature we've been thinking about is personal todo lists that live outside of your Zube boards.

I know several engineers on my team would love that.

Would love to hear about any other features you think your team might find useful.

Really excited to see this launched! Congrats on shipping Aaron and Jen!

Thanks!

Just got this email:

  Hi sep332!

  I made a new product, Zube https://zube.io . It's a
  simple project management tool for GitHub issues.
  I've been working on it with my cofounder for 6 months.

  I'm super excited to announce that we're launching
  Zube today on Hacker News. You can read more about why
  we made it here - https://zube.io/blog .

  Hope you check it out and let me know what you think!

  Cheers,
  Jen

You know this kind of spam is literally illegal, right?

Sorry, sp332. I only sent this email out to people who I thought would be interested in a new project of mine because they were interested in my other projects (180 Websites in 180 Days and YumHacker).

I don't mean to spam anyone and I'll remove you from my list.

Edit: To be clear, I only sent emails to people who have given me their emails previously. I didn't scrape them from the internet.

Sorry again!

I'm not even that angry about it - I mean it's friendly enough. I just thought it was a big legal risk for you to be taking at the start of a project!

Edit: Well if I signed up for your emails before, it's not so bad. But without a one-click unsubscribe link, I think it's still in violation of the CAN-SPAM act.

How is it illegal?

At first I thought my email was just scraped from HN. See my other comment too.

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