Show HN: Automations for Tasks – Height.app

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5 points·michaelvillar··4 comments

Automations where though? I saw "Task is added to content-inbox" and I was wondering where exactly this "content-inbox" is. I had to scroll down to see that it's based on integration with other tools. I advise you to make it more clear that it's a tool on top of other tools, perhaps by making the integration more prominent.

It's actually not based on other tools, it's automating tasks within Height.app.

Does that make sense?

I see now. Do you see this image [0] on https://height.app/compare/asana? Now that's what I wanted to see, now I understand it's some sort of task manager for teams that presumably integrates with GitLab, GitHub etc.

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Ok on a further look, I think I understand what happened. You linked directly to https://height.app/product/automations, but I and probably others who see this post would have thought that it was the base URL, ie your product was an automation software. It's like if (assuming people didn't know what Stripe was) Stripe had a Show HN for the URL https://stripe.com/payments/elements, people would click it and assume, "hey this Stripe thing looks like it helps customize payment UIs," not understanding that this is just one part of the main Stripe app.

It also doesn't help that there aren't any breadcrumbs [1] in either your site or Stripe's to show that this is a feature of the app.

For Show HNs, you can add text as well as a URL, and I think you should have done that to explain that this Show HN is for launching a new feature of an existing app, rather than the main app itself.

[0] https://height.app/a/statics/assets/smart-filters-M2IQGQVS.g...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=breadcrumb+component&sxsrf=A...

What problem is this solving? It's not quite clear from the website.

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