Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams
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Can't edit item titles in place, I have to click item and then edit title in editing area.
First cluster (uncategorized items) is not editable, not draggable, not deletable - is this intentional? I guess it makes sense for uncategorized stuff, but what if I don't need it? Bit annoying.
Graph view would make more sense if I could create nested clusters/items, but since data is always one level deep I don't see why I would use it.
I like how search works very much.
Collaboration works very cool - I can see who edits which item at the moment. The only thing I want here is to have a log of who edited what exactly in each item.
Very positive impression overall.
That said, it doesn't make me want to switch from trello and I kinda hate trello. I'll think about this and let you know if i come up with any specific reason.
(this is my first review ever - was it helpful?)
* Great to hear you like the design and UI! Contrast is not easy to get right with all the different screens and layouts, but we'll improve this.
* Editing the item title in place is planned.
* The current behavior of the uncategorized items is intentional, but as you noted it's not ideal and we're currently working on ways to improve it.
* We're already experimenting with different approaches to the graph visualization like visualizing the links between items. Stay tuned :)
* We're planning to add versioning, which will allow you to retrace how the content evolved.
It would be very interesting to us if you come up with a specific reason. Don't hesitate to contact me directly :)
Your product has a great look and feel, looks very polished overall!
Jokes aside, i'm of the opinion I'd allow free use with severe scale limitations - more or less what bitbucket did/does with private repos.
At this point I'm totally burnt by commiting my data to free/freemium saas products that end up shutting down a year later, just want to pay for good service and have a bit of hope that it stays afloat.
* You can replace several collaboration tools with Nuclino as it combines the best ideas from many! (e.g. the board from Trello, real-time editing from Google Docs, internal links from wikis)
* Real-time collaborative editor with markdown commands
* Visualize your data with different views such as lists, boards, and graphs
You can use it to plan and track sprints, collaborate on requirements, share ideas, goals and more.
It's been working out great for ourselves and our first users, but we'd love to get feedback from a wider audience. If you don't mind a couple rough edges and missing features, it would be awesome if you could check it out and tell us what you think!
https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/e59309758061057655df10...
I would check with your legal if its all right to use competitors branding in your advertising. Depending on way this branding is presented (or not) it's either trademark violation, violation of laws forbidding direct comparisons with other brands (hence "better than leading product" in ads) or grounds for libel damages.
So I love the product, but since it's yet another additional tool in our pipeline, it doesn't replace anything outright. Possible solutions for us:
1. A small plan which just includes the free tier features, plus private workspaces at a lower price. Not sure what price seems fair, but $4-$5 seems reasonable. $3 would be a no brainer price. 2. A tier priced according to total members. Eg, $30/m for 5 members, or something. Though, seeing as we'd need ~20, it would still rack up in price I imagine.. perhaps this is no different than just reducing the price. /shrug
So yea, not trying to say those prices make sense or are needed, just trying to provide constructive feedback on why we are not choosing to use it, despite liking it. $2,000 -> $3,000 a year is just a bit steep for what we "almost" have right now, in our existing tools.
Keep up the good work!
I think what makes it so great is just the pure simplicity. I absolutely hate dealing with all the cruft of Wikis and similar solutions. With Nuclino we just go and write the information down without all the hassle.
Couldn't recommend it more, keep up the good work.
We are also thinking about adding HTML as an export format if there is any interest. What format would you expect as an export option?
It's also nice how escape gets you back to the search bar – I don't have enough data to know how search prioritization scales, but feels really snappy and nice so far.
One comment (admit this is a pet peeve) – it'd be really nice if Google and/or Github SSO was available on any of the paid plans. As a buyer, I really don't like having to choose between good security practice (and a bunch of features that aren't needed for my small team) vs. a lower price. Put differently, it's a bummer that across a number of SaaS services the choice to use SSO - but few or no other "enterprise" features - ends up costing tens of dollars per person per month. :/
Edit: Also thank you, thank you, thank you for a nice table editor where I don't have to do things by hand in markdown!
(I'm sure you have other features, that was just the one that excited me personally)
The pricing model mentions 'Private workspaces'. Does that mean the free option is visible to all visitors ?! If so then it should clearly mention that...
> We're already experimenting with different approaches to the graph visualization like visualizing the links between items.
Yes please! Being able to visualize links between items that I created would be amazing.
Coloring items by cluster would be great too: I'd like to have different types of items (some would represent customers, others features-requests, and I'd like to be able to differentiate customers and feature-requests in the graph visually while visualizing links among them).
It looks like you're experimenting with a desktop app (although you don't mention which platforms) is there any work on mobile apps? I couldn't find any mention of them on your website.
Although the bulk of our Trello usage is on desktops, being able to access and respond to notifications when away from the desk/office/laptop are deal breakers for our team.
Out of interest, when did you start? I'm confused about "Join over 2000 teams".
We started about one and a half years ago, but just recently released a major update introducing the board view and other essential features: https://blog.nuclino.com/the-new-nuclino
Hope this helps :)
Awesome work and hello from the States.
I would definitely recommend this for the workplace...however, for private use, I've always been an advocate of self-hosted. Does anyone know of a similar platform for single-person, self-hosted use-case?
But even if a company did want to copy something, it really comes down to passion and execution, I've seen this play out a number of times.
Trello, actually, makes a point here. Atlassian paid $425M for it, when they could have just copied it. There's a lot more to it.
Obviously I'm highly biased regarding a direct comparison, but here are some thoughts:
Overall we're trying to provide a simpler and faster experience. For example, our editor is just a single stream of content blocks, providing consistency and a fast editing experience. In Notion the editor has more complexity with adjustable multi-column layouts, page header images, etc. If you don't require those formatting options, I'd argue Nuclino is a better fit.
By providing different views on the same information, we also enable you to use Nuclino for different use cases. For example, the list view allows you to prioritize lots of items, the board view to track a workflow, and a graph view to explore information.
However are there any plans for mobile apps? That's an important feature.
We've seen that many teams don't need all the features the Atlassian stack provides and happily trade it for a simpler, faster, and more unified experience.
Feel free to try it out and see if it works for you and your team :)
I love how you've enabled users to take down ideas in a very quick way without forcing them to make decisions about what "category" or purpose the information has at that moment and then they can freeform build on that information to take it from something amorphous to something with utility. This compliments the way humans actually tackle complex work.
Can't wait to see where Nuclino goes from here!
Unless I missed a feature allowing to nest content on multiple level ?
Generally, we're trying to keep the organisation flat as we've seen lots of teams struggle with deeply nested information, e.g. in the context of huge shared network drives. However, there are some cases where more nesting might be useful and we're already trying out some ways to address that.
I'm trying to resize a large picture on the board. Is possible?
Resizing a picture is not possible, but we're planning to add different size options like full-width vs. normal-width for each image. Would that solve what you're trying to achieve?
Does this support import from Trello?
For the frontend we use React, MobX, ProseMirror, and Webpack.
The backend uses Node.js, Express, µWS, and Postgres.
How easy is it to write custom plugins/behaviour? For example our tables are much more complex than the ones from the default plugin, we have e-signature etc.
I will have a look myself over the next weeks or so but wanted to get some opinion on that!
Apart from that, the maintainer is very responsive and often times issues get fixed in a matter of hours! And the community behind ProseMirror is very helpful and seems to be steadily growing :)
Thanks for the reply, I guess I'll play with it once I manage to find some time!