Samu

@valscholz @knoddecee @samuapp 🎉

@valscholz @neuling2k @knoddecee @samuapp Wow, this looks right up my alley. I love the fact that you can set difficulty measures for each task. I am using Wunderlist right now and I am currently a student and part-time worker. Why would you recommend me switching from Wunderlist?

Hi @johnstokman, we've built Samu to help us managing our time. We've been huge fan of the Eisenhower matrix, but didn't find any tool that allows us to use it. Samu gives you a clear overview of tasks you should do today, delegate or schedule for later. It even tells you which tasks you shouldn't do at all. This helps us to stay productive and focused :-) Nevertheless Wunderlist is a great tool.

@valscholz Great work! Is an iOS coming soon?

@ianmikutel Hi Ian, we're currently developing mobile apps for iOS & Android. We plan to release them this summer

@felix_hau That's a great idea, will definitely look into together with @neuling2k. Thanks for the kind words 🐼#samupower

@felix_hau for now you can set @samuapp as your startup page? #oldschool

@neuling2k @samuapp Get out of here with your rational suggestions!

@3x14159265 We wanted to keep it as lean as possible from the beginning.We have a certain vision in our minds, but we try to postpone as many features as possible. We wait until users ask for them and we have that feeling that the core product is stable enough to support additional features. We sat down to define the MVP at the beginning of January. This included the matrix view, the task dialog, the archive and payment. I think this was important, especially to reach our goal to launch on Feb 1, 2016. Additionally we got a lot of feedback from the beginning. We've onboarded the first user after two days, although we felt the product wasn't quite ready yet. But Verena (and other users) gave us powerful insights on what they needed and what they did not need. But seriously we were amazed on how fast we were building Samu too. I hope this helps :-)

@3x14159265 Thanks for your feedback! As Valentin answered your first question I will continue with the tech stack. The backend is a Ruby on Rails application using PostgreSQL as database. For now its hosted on a Digitalocean instance but we are planing to migrate to Heroku. The frontend is completely written in react and communicates with the backend via a internal api. I do have a lot of experience (nearly 10 years) in Ruby on Rails and frontend development. Valentin was also amazing fast with doing the layout as well as marketing. This and a lot of work till the morning made it possible ;) I hope this answers your question.

@marketplicity Hi Chris, thank you very much. We're more focused on time management (and prioritizing tasks) than Trello. We've already started to add Smart Actions to Samu (e.g. move tasks with a due date of today in to "Do Today") and will continue to add more over the next weeks (e.g. delegate a tasks). Additionally we think that our Focus List separates us from the rest. We'll release a big update for it this week and it will further boost productivity.

@_bernhard That's a great question! We've planned to roll out mobile apps over the next few months, but we want to focus first on our core product. It still lacks some basic features, but we're optimistic that we can add them in the next few weeks. I'm curios - do you use iOS, Android or even Windows Phone?

@valscholz Android!

@oliverlukesch Thanks for pointing that out. We've have some amazing things planned for Delegate and it will definitely change the way you manage tasks. As for integrating with other task management tools. It's something that crossed our mind and we definitely won't close this topic. We see Samu as the top layer that helps you to manage your day (and time). So integrating task management tools might make sense.

@valscholz Samu = top layer, nice. Like the thought, curious how you'll realize it.

@skreutzb Awesome feedback. Thanks for pointing that out. That's definitely something we'll look into. We've built Samu to help us managing our time. We've been huge fan of the Eisenhower matrix, but didn't find any tool that allows us to use it. Samu gives you a clear overview of tasks you should do today, delegate or schedule for later. It even tells you which tasks you shouldn't do at all. This helps us to stay productive and focused :-) Nevertheless Wunderlist and Asana are great tools.

@skreutzb Great to find Samu here on PH. I was one of the first users and have been working with Samu for a few weeks now after I had tried some other tools including Wunderlist. What makes Samu so powerful is that it combines the two essential dimensions of time management: time and priority (actually it adds a third dimension - I love the focus list). Prioritizing has always been the main challenge for me and from my experience it is for a lot of people. In my opinion, what’s important: I wouldn’t say Samu is better than other tools in general, it’s simply different. A different approach that fulfills different needs for different people. For me, Samu is better than all those other tools out there. For others it might be not.