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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...

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