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I think all project management SaaS have let me down so far, Pivotal I think is much superior, the issue is that all of them are around tasks and timelines, a project is so much more than that. If I need to put my documentation elsewhere, and track bugs elsewhere, this is just an overhead (pivotal as example, I stopped using it for bug tracking and moved to Jira)

As a feedback, I would at least change the bootstrap default colors, it's starting to look like all startups look the same...

And in my 5 seconds attention, I didn't quite get the main basecamp killer feature, but I liked the notion of the trees. you got my email...

By the way, would be happy to hear your thoughts on http://flashissue.com if you send newsletters and think it's too painful and takes too long

That's great to hear that there are others out there who are dissatisfied with exiting project management tools.

It's interesting that you mentioned Pivotal trackers bad bug tracking support. One of the major issues I've experienced is that project management tools are great for new features but don't work so well for handling bugs. Silo is planned to have three main features 'Fix, Build, Maintain' which all work in slightly different ways. And your're right if you have to use a second tool then the benefit of the first is radically diminished.

You're also right in that the 'basecamp killer feature' isn't clear. Why am I going to switch to Silo? The marketing website needs to work a lot harder to convey the benefit. It is somewhat abstract at the moment. We need to really hammer out the product before we can really sell the killer features and benefits.

As for http://flashissue.com - I love the tagline 'Do you hate creating newsletters?', it instantly caught my attention and got me listening. However I couldn't then quickly work out what you were offering. My advice would be to move the in-app screenshot in place of the generic 'man and help' image which although catching doesn't tell me anything about Flash Issue. I'd also add more and clearer explanations to the screenshot as it's still tricky to work out what the product does.

Thanks for your time.

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