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Hey HN, if you want to give Clubhouse a try, you can use this link for a $100 credit: https://clubhouse.io/signup?referral=hn

(I'm a co-founder, also happy to answer any questions.)

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I'm curious to hear how you would describe Clubhouse relative to the competition. Are there aspects that are fundamentally differentiated? Or is it more a matter of making lots of little improvements, which add up to a much better experience overall?

I ask because project management software is a super crowded market, with a lot of products that seem only subtly different from each other. On the surface Clubhouse also seems like it's only subtly different from other products. I'm curious about strategies for navigating these kinds of markets. Is high-level differentiation useful? Or are the details more important? Or is it really all about marketing and branding?

Or, if you guys just wanted to make something you like and are hoping enough other people like it too so you can pay the bills, and you're really thinking strategically about growth fight now that's cool too.

I haven't really tried Clubhouse yet but it looks really nice. And I certainly have yet to fall in love with anything out there. I will definitely give Clubhouse a try.

Good questions! It is a crowded market, but nobody has really nailed it yet. Clubhouse is being built specifically for software teams, and we're trying to provide just enough structure to let you see what's going on at a high level, but keep it flexible enough so that you can work the way your team wants to.

Part of what makes us different is the little details that add up to a better UX, but our GitHub integration is pretty sophisticated: we don't just link stories to pull requests, we can actually automate your Clubhouse workflow using your existing GitHub workflow. We've also put a lot of work into cross-project visibility, so most other tools only let you see one project at a time, so it's difficult to know what a single person is doing across multiple projects, but in Clubhouse it's very easy. We're also starting to get into more interesting features, like providing data-driven guidance around milestones and deadlines, the ability to create roadmaps and more organic story dependencies, more analytics/dataviz... we still have a lot to do.

Everyone who visits your landing page thinks 'Trello' and here you try to explain why Clubhouse is advanced (without mentioning Trello) which is not so easy to digest.

Why don't you just create a nice comparison matrix on your site where you compare Clubhouse to Trello feature by feature and highlight the advantages (which are mentioned here and there in your posts in this thread). Would help a lot.

It's on the list of things to do at some point soon.

Here's a blog post that one of our users wrote a few months ago that covers some of the same ground: https://medium.com/humans-in-space/clubhouse-is-the-best-pro...

Does Clubhouse have any features to help show a product roadmap to other teams? For example, something that shows the priorities and queued work for the next six months that can be referenced by an inside sales team.

We have a dedicated page for Epics which lets you prioritize epics against each other, which basically provides a high-level priority that anyone in the company can look at to get an idea of what the next few months look like. We're also working on building roadmap support to make epic dependencies/order more explicit.

Thanks for the reply!

We currently use Trello for project management but find that the duplication of data between Trello and GitHub and the lack of "higher order" views (epics, roadmap, etc) make us want to move to a more purpose built service.

It's a bit funny: Standard plan ($8.50 per month if paid annualy is $102) while the credit is $100 (which gives 10 months nonetheless) :)

Edit: as the other comment said, it's $8.50/per user/per month... and event though comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11118413 says " Good point, we've removed that line. Thanks for your feedback!" (which is great!), it seems to be there (after a hard re-load).

It looks like what you're doing is quite similar to Sprintly. https://sprint.ly -- Including your advanced GitHub integration which they've had for a few years.

What would you say makes you different from them?

Sprintly is cheaper.

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