Competitors - Gowiem/Sisyphus GitHub Wiki

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Pros

• Due dates for each task
  • Choose via a date picker
  • Download due dates into your Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook
• All users should be able to view progress easily and effectively
  • Progress bar (per milestone/item/user?)
  • “Smart” Progress Tracker (Aesthetically pleasing, possibly allow users set %)
  • “Item was last seen…”
• Task-sorting
  • By due date, importance, assigned to you, etc
• Overall project overview
• Notifications
  • Email
  • In-browser notifications / alerts
• In-line editing
• Customizable interface to sort by project, groups, class
  • Kinda like JIRA Dashboard?
  • Like Wrike
• Profiles: achievements, skills, resume-esque information
• Chat function, group meeting with professor and group members
• File uploads (Dropbox/GDrive API)
  • Associating project with a Dropbox/Google Drive folder
• Login: Google, FB, LinkedIn, Email
  • Talked about attaching resume for helping teachers create groups
• Admin maintained visibility
  • Allowing admins (teachers) to change what projects or students are ‘on’
  • Observer view

Cons

• Overload of information and tasks
  • Trello has too many layers (boards > cards > checklists)
• Trello: cards need to be intuitive – when it's completed, it should be mark it as done
• Most competitors are too feature-heavy; simplify

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Overview

• Group to-do list app

Pros

• Organize various boards, or projects. (Example 1, _place_holder;Example 2)

• (For Sisyphus: Students can organize different groups for different classes.)

• Set due dates for each task (Example)

• To-do’s list, with progress indicator, within tasks (Example)

• (For Sisyphus: We don’t want to nest to-do’s inside tasks. For our tool, to-do’s and tasks are the same thing– we just want one level of tasks/to-do’s for simplicity.)

Cons

• Too many features. Seems to be targeting too large an audience (Example)
• For Sisyphus: We want our tool to have minimal learning curve– should take less than 10min to understand tool. Features are based around group workflow)

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Overview

• Group to-do list app

Pros

• Organize various boards, or projects. (Example 1, _place_holder;Example 2)

• (For Sisyphus: Students can organize different groups for different classes.)

• Set due dates for each task (Example)

• To-do’s list, with progress indicator, within tasks (Example)

• (For Sisyphus: We don’t want to nest to-do’s inside tasks. For our tool, to-do’s and tasks are the same thing– we just want one level of tasks/to-do’s for simplicity.)

Cons

• Too many features. Seems to be targeting too large an audience (Example)
• For Sisyphus: We want our tool to have minimal learning curve– should take less than 10min to understand tool. Features are based around group workflow)

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Overview

• Cloud hosting and sharing.

Pros

• syncs with web, computer, and phone
• easily sharable via link or email
• files easily editable among many people
• files can be opened and edited online
• almost everyone has a Gmail account

Cons

• you can't tell who edits what
  • work could be unevenly distributed
  • not really built for groups other than sharing and editing together
• people can delete information and files

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Overview

• Cloud Hosting (Example)

Pros

• syncs with web, computer, and phone
• easily sharable via link or shared folder
• free storage + more with referrals
• keeps previous versions of a file
• DropBox for Business tracks when people login or do actions

Cons

• files have to be downloaded to be opened/edited
• if two people make changes at the same time, Dropbox saves both files separately

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Overview

• time tracking app for different clients, projects, and tasks

Pros

• View different categories’ progress (Example)

Cons

• When tracking time, you can’t tell how you’re doing against the budget (Example)

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Overview

• project management tool

Pros

• Sample project on startup page to explore features
• Hierarchy of where you’ve been and how you go back innovative. (Example)
• Inline editing for search (Example)
• Me page shows activity, open and closed todos (Example)
• Allows forwarding of emails (Example)
• All editing is inline. Super nice. (Example)
• Discussions on todo items
• WYSIWYG editor for discussions (Example)
• Subsections (‘Quick things to explore in Basecamp’ && ‘Todo list basics’)
• History for items including date (Example)
• Bulk invitation (Example)

Cons

• Some buttons are two small and are easy to roll over and miss clicking (edit button in Example)
• No good way at a glance to see the progress of a project

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Overview

• Advanced search (Example)
• Extensive keyboard shortcuts (Example)

Pros

• Advanced search
• Extensive keyboard shortcuts

Cons

• Does a horrifying job of telling you what buttons do. See the arrow down button in this example. They all do something different. Bottom left lets you log out/account settings and top right lets you _place_holder;print the page (?) and a couple other things.
• Again bad job at showing what a button does. (Example) How does a envelope with a checkmark next to it show the user that button means ‘Send or don’t send activity emails’?

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Including

• FogBugz, CopperProject, Wiggio, Yast, and Wrike _place_holder;