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Eric Willis
Shortcut — Project management without all the management.
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Shortcut is a fast, uncluttered project management platform for Agile software teams to plan, build, and launch better products. It combines just the right amount of simplicity and structure to keep software teams happy and productive. Free for up to 10 users.

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Henri Stern
Hey Kurt! Product looks fantastic, congrats! Trello is great for small teams imo but, beyond simple feature assignments, tracking projects at a higher level and prioritizing features on the dev sched. in any clever way is tough in bigger teams: does CH help there?
Kurt Schrader
Maker
Hi Henri, Thanks! We've really worked hard to let teams pull back from a simple task-by-task view of things and look at things at a higher level of abstraction. We use the concept of Epics across Project Teams to let you visualize progress against your big objectives across all of your teams. As an example, an Epic like "New way to share photos" might consist of many tasks across multiple project teams (web, iOS, backend, design, ops, etc). Clubhouse lets you see how all of those tasks fit together at a high level, while still retaining the ability to zoom in and see how development is progressing in each team, and how those tasks are prioritized against everything else that a team is working on.
Henri Stern
@kurt The term 'epic' is great! I've really been dying to find good gamification engine to make drive teamwork and productivity, and help people (esp engineers) prioritize their time well (for instance the oft complex technically challenging vs needed standard) as part of a unit! I'm excited to try Clubhouse out! Love your take on transparency in product building for teams, and the analytics and tools you can provide on top of it. What I'll be looking most at I think is the onboarding: tough to balance a learning curve for such a product.
David Wippel
Looks like a more structured Trello on the first view. I like to have a bird view on my projects which i miss using Trello.
Kurt Schrader
Maker
Hey all, great to be on Product Hunt and glad to answer any questions that people have about Clubhouse.
Eric Willis
Hunter
A project management app to estimate, plan, build, and track your team’s work. Looks a bit like Trello.
Mark Brogowicz

I'm a huge fan. I've led two teams to switch to Clubhouse. The workflow is flexible, but constrained to keep things simple. The reporting is simple, but useful. The product addresses a hierarchy for software development, which helps to manage both short and long-term planning. This is done through User Stories, Epics and Milestones.

Pros:

Simple, fast, built for software development

Cons:

None

Ben Martin
Hey @brogowicz - we thought you might like to know that Clubhouse for iOS launched in the time since you left this review. If you haven't already checked it out yet, give it a spin!
Mark Brogowicz
No doubt. Even before that, the lack of a native mobile app was overstated as 'con'. The product is awesome. I'll see if I can edit/revise that review to show that.
Stefani Kovachevska
A fan right here, the flexibility-first approach has helped us map our activities according to our real-life workflows. Also, love the community and support, keep it up!
Mustafa Yilmaz
After trying literally everything from jira to airtable custom bases, we settled down to clubhouse for our development management environment. This is so far the best tool that covers up our interests in the project management aspect. The team developed an amazing ui, that allows us to manage 6 different projects with 4 different workflow states :) thanks for developing something with keeping a developer and small team pm's requirements in mind :)
Aaran McGuire
Feature wise this does look like Trello, but UI wise looks a lot nicer.. Interested to see how it all works and what features will set it apart.
Kurt Schrader
Maker
@aaran_mcguire We take a more structured approach than Trello. We're not trying to organize everything in the world (weddings, office moves, etc), we're trying to be the best tool for engineering and product teams to use to manage their work.
Aaran McGuire
@kurt When will you be sending out more invites?
Kurt Schrader
Maker
@aaran_mcguire We'll be sending out invites on a rolling basis everyday to people in the order that they signed up for the beta.
Sebastian Broways

I've moved multiple clients from JIRA to Clubhouse. There is definitely less functionality but that's why it's better! It's not bloated.

Pros:

Simple, easy to use. Concepts come across even to less-seasoned participants (e.g. product owners that may not have a tech background)

Cons:

Milestone view is limited. Would like to see a product roadmap view where milestones and/or epics can be displayed in a gantt-like format.

Robert Weindl
Clubhouse is so far the best project / product management tool to keep track of the daily progress throughout various teams. I love the intuitive slim UI and the existing set of features. We integrated Clubhouse into our workflow by making extensive use of their web hooks and automated the entire flow of a ticket. Design, Engineering and QA are defining certain custom triggers which move a ticket from Start to Release.