p/zenkit
Project management made easy.
Martin Welker
Zenkit 3.0 โ€” Flexible project management you can share with the world
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Zenkit 3.0 is a new way for users to share their work online with published and embedded collections, a documented API, new integrations, brand new mobile apps, and more (for free!)
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Jan Kรถnig
This looks really good, congrats on all the progress! Would love to learn more about the new Zenkit design framework that you mentioned. Is this something that's publicly available or just a better way for your team to build consistent experiences across platforms?
Siobhan O'Rorke
@einkoenig Hey Jan! That's a great question, thank you ๐Ÿ‘Œ Building a consistent experience accross platforms was our main motivation for building the new framework, however it's also totally changed the way we develop. Now any developer on our team, front-end or back-end, can implement features they build immediately without having to send it all over to a designer. It also means that whenever a new feature is released, it's already optimized for each type of device ๐Ÿ˜Ž We are considering releasing it in the future, but we're not sure when or how, so it may take a while if we do decide to publish it.
Jan Kรถnig
@siororke Sounds great! And we should definitely chat sometime soon about how to add voice interactions to the cross-platform mix ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ
Siobhan O'Rorke
@einkoenig I'd love to! I can add your vote to the exisiting feature request ๐Ÿ‘
Clifford Fajardo
PROS: - much more flexible & featureful than Trello out of the box. Trello requires a plugin for just about everything, which is inconvenient; this is a more of a one stop hub experience! - calendar integration, different views (table, kanban, list) - Filtered views - embeddable collections (you can share them on your website..) CONS: - no global view across projects yet. It would be amazing to be able to filter and view everything in one view to update/cross/delete items. Similar to this:
- API docs/API stuff in general is lacking. You need to use Zapier and a combination of other services. I dislike this model of having to integrate too many 3rd parties (sometimes it makes sense). If Zenkit had API docs & experience similar to Airtable (auto generated docs based on your data), they would crush the competition:
- slower than Trello & not as fast. Under the hood, it looks like they're still using AngularJS v1 (looked at Chrome dev tools) to build their frontend application. Inherently, this is going to be much slower than if they used a modern version of their javascript framework or another framework so they can take advantage of the build time optimizations like treeshaking (dead code), faster UI updates (angular 1 change detection mechanism is significantly slower than what's available now) and lazily loading modules, among many other things that could be improved. I used to work with Angular 1, so I know a bit about these and have worked on highly performant frontend UI's.. Feel free to reach out to me directly on twitter or here too. I really want Zenkit to succeed since it's really good, but I know it can way better with time =). Ask me web performance questions as well. I used to work on web peformance on Linkedin.com, plus I just plain love the topic of web performance and frontend engineering. @martinwelker , @peter_oehler1 , @peter_oehler
Sammy Schuckert

Love the redesign! Makes the interface so much better. Before it was lacking some contrast - itโ€™s been a gray/white soup with some desaturated colors.

Pros:

Flexibility, having the right visualization for different contexts. This makes Zenkit the swiss army knife of productivity tools.

Cons:

Takes a while to see the advantages, once you learned how to leverage the different modes, itโ€™s super easy and effective to use though.

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback, Sammy! We're so glad you love the redesign and that you're happy using Zenkit.
Radek Zaleski
I love this tool!
Siobhan O'Rorke
@radekzaleski Glad to hear it, Radek! ๐Ÿ™Œ
Vova Tereschenko
Great design, it's simple and structured, like a combination of iOS 7 and material. And I love a mobile screenshot with Eyelet ๐Ÿ™‚ Just some hints about your live demo that you might consider reasonable: When you provide a demo on your site, add "Live demo - click to play" button, so everybody can scroll down and understand that it's not a regular screenshot. Also I can't click Public button that seems to be clickable.
Siobhan O'Rorke
@vova_tereschenko Thank you so much, Vova! And thank you for your feedback - I will make sure our web dev look into it asap ๐Ÿ‘
Martin Welker
Hi Product Hunt! ๐ŸŽ‰ Weโ€™re so excited to announce the release of Zenkit 3.0. Over the years weโ€™ve worked hard to make Zenkit the most flexible, easy to use project management tool any team could ask for. This update marks another step in that direction. Hereโ€™s some of what weโ€™ve included in this release: ๐ŸŽ‰ Published collections: make any Zenkit collection public on its own webpage โœจ Embeddable collections: visitors can interact with collections on any website ๐ŸŽจ A redesign based on the new Zenkit design framework ๐Ÿค“ A publicly documented API ๐Ÿ“ฑ Multitasking support for iPad ๐Ÿ˜Ž 'Assigned to me' filter for My Calender ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ MS Teams integration (coming soon) ๐Ÿ“… iCalendar subscriptions to sync with any calendar app Weโ€™re most excited about the new published collections - you can use them to easily share project updates with clients via a link, publish a roadmap online, or embed calendars to publicize events. Theyโ€™re also optimized for search so anyone can find your collections in seconds (and you can add meta descriptions!). If youโ€™d like to give it a try, you can sign up for a free Zenkit account today ๐Ÿ‘ If youโ€™ve been with us for a while, tell us what you think! Weโ€™re excited to see what youโ€™ll build and share with Zenkit 3.0
Tim Lagerpusch
What is the most exciting unique feature of your toolkit?
Siobhan O'Rorke
@tim_lagerpusch We're big fans of the flexibility Zenkit gives the user: the option to change how they view their data and how it's structured with custom views and fields. The new published collections features is also pretty awesome in my opinion. It really lets you choose exactly what's shown to the viewersn๐Ÿ˜Ž
Matthias Binder
Hey, cool update guys! The mobile apps got so much smoother and easier to use ๐Ÿ‘ Good job! Keep up the good work :)
Siobhan O'Rorke
@matthias_binder Thanks Matthias! We're so glad you like the apps ๐Ÿ™Œ
Rostane Gribi

Tried a lot of softs out there, finally found the one that makes me productive.

Pros:

Faster than ever with still all the great features.

Cons:

Looking forward for the next options coming up soon !

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thank you so much for your kind review, Rostane!! ๐Ÿ™
Kaitlyn Hanrahan

Mobile app works nice too.

Pros:

I recommend Zenkit all the time. Helpful to look at my same action items in different views like calendar, mindmap and kaban/Trello

Cons:

It's still just a tool. It won't do your work for you.

Denis Shershnev
Congrats guys! You've done great work! Awesome product!
Jessica Ludwig

I love Zenkit. At first sight, it looks like an easy to use tool but if you have worked with it for a while it's getting better every minute. It got so many features and possibilities for your business.

Pros:

Awesome Design and a powerfull tool for your business.

Cons:

It needs a bit of time to get to know all possibilities and features in Zenkit.

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback, Jessica! We're working on making it easier for new users to learn how it all works, so you won't run into this issue in the future ๐Ÿ˜Š
MK 2109
LOVE the flexibility.. but no subtasks..!
Daniel Tallentire

The API gives me a lot of control over the issues and tasks I love being able to create items on a mindmap, and switch to Kanban, then action them with a Eisenhower matrix.

Pros:

The new API The ability to switch between different visual representations The mindmap view

Cons:

Out of the box conversational integration

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thanks so much for your your review, Daniel! We're so glad you're getting to grips with our API. I'd love to hear more about your 'conversational integration' feedback (either here or via email to hello[at]zenkit.com)
Marcus Smolarek
You did a great great job guys. And great support too!
Siobhan O'Rorke
@marcus_smolarek1 Thank you so much, Marcus! And thank you for your support, too! See you on the chat some time ๐Ÿ˜‰
Marcus Smolarek

the new ui is fantastic!

Pros:

Very flexible! I can create almost all my business cases with this tool: sales cycle, project planning, onboarding, dev kanban ...

Cons:

no timeline / gantt - but its coming :)

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thank you so much for your kind review, Marcus! We really appreciate it and we're glad to hear you manage everything so well with Zenkit ๐Ÿ‘
Tahar Saidi

Zenkit is really intuitive and offer a lot of functionalities. You can adapt Zenkit to your way of working unlike many others trello like tools.

Pros:

Intuitive, user friendly, collaboration

Cons:

Nothing

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thank you for your kind words, Tahar! We really appreciate it ๐Ÿ™
Karl Guenther
The Zenkit product is, in my opinion, THE leader in this 'getting work done collaboratively' world. I work for a large company which is moving forward with AGILE techniques so Kanban and concept maps thinking are comfortable here. However, the corp standard is not as nimble as Zenkit, so I still find myself leaning on it in order to run my strategies and tasks without leaving anything behind. The move toward being Microsoft-friendly is huge! Thank you. Keep up the great work.
Siobhan O'Rorke
@karl_guenther1 Thank you for your kind words, Karl! ๐Ÿ™ We're so glad to hear you love Zenkit so much, and that it helps you run your projects more nimbly. Thanks for sticking with us!
Lulu
The published collections feature sounds really cool but I have a few privacy concerns... Can there be an option to require a password?
Siobhan O'Rorke
@lulu_93 Great question Lulu! We don't have that option for published collections yet - once they're published, anyone will be able to find them. We're considering adding a password option in the future, but the best thing to do for now is encourage the people you're sharing with to sign up for Zenkit ๐Ÿ˜‰
STYNG

We tried many different tools and Zenkit was the only one, that offered all the features we needed for our organization.

Pros:

It has a fantastic design and really powerful features.

Cons:

It needed some time for us to get to know and understand all the possibilities.

Siobhan O'Rorke
Thank you so much! We're so glad you guys are enjoying using Zenkit! We're working on making it easier for new users to get on board ๐Ÿ™Œ