Ear to the ground: Staction
We’re constantly listening to what people are saying about our apps. Whether it’s on Twitter or someone’s personal blog we listen and, when we feel we can help, we try to respond. Besides being a great way to gauge public opinion, these conversations have given us quite a few good ideas for new features and blog topics and, for our users, its a great way to let them know that someone on the other end is listening.
Since releasing Staction in January we’ve been seeing more and more mentions of it on Twitter and, like the proud parents we are, we’d like to share a few with you. It makes us especially happy that a few of the tweets from users sound like they’re having great success at simplifying their workflow with Staction.
Hello,
I’m intrigued by the idea for Staction. I can’t find a discussion forum about the product, so I’ll comment instead.
I’ve signed up and I can immediately see that this would be of most use to me outside of the browser, perhaps integrated into a Twitter client or in its own standalone client.
I think your free accounts should be a bit more generous with their terms. I don’t think 2 people is really enough to discover the true potential of the app. 5 would be better.
J.
Hi Jonathan,
We also feel that Staction would work great in a dedicated desktop app, and it’s been something a lot of our users have been requesting. We have some ideas for it and it’s definitely something we’re considering as a future improvement.
We’re constantly re-evaluating our pricing, and your suggestion about the limited number of users for the free plan is a good one. We also sent you an email about this matter.
Thanks for the interest in Staction!
Hi,
I’m afraid I typed my email address in wrong last time (put ‘googmail’ by accident), can you send me that email again please?
Thanks,
J.
No problem Jonathan- email is on its way.
It looks like we adhere to the same principles of simple UI and beautiful design.
I’ve been searching and searching for a web-based collaboration tool that works for our small team of 4. We have to work double-time (even triple)— it’s been a rocky first quarter. We wanted to do our own web apps, but have found that we do have to focus on client services for now.
So, I’ve tried planning out our projects on Basecamp, 5pm, Google calendar, etc… Nothing quite works. I’m liking the simple interface, it looks like you’re months ahead of our internal project management app. I’d also like to be able to try it out with my team, but the free account is limited. Ditto on J’s last point.
Hi Marie,
We’ve worked really hard to keep it simple, so thank you for the kind words about the UI. We agree that the free plan is pretty limited, but we didn’t build Staction to give it away for free (as I’m sure you appreciate). We want to continue working hard to make Staction absolutely the best app that we can muster, but if we gave it away for free, we’d never be able to justify the time to work on it.
If you guys are keen on getting a better feel for how your team works with Staction, I’d suggest signing up for a simple account. You’ll get 4 users with that plan and all the features except time tracking. That would be the best judge of whether or not it fits in well within your organization. If it doesn’t you can always cancel after the first month (no questions asked) and you’re only $7 lighter. I hope that helps!
I just watched the tour, and I am intrigued… I like the simplicity and the built in time tracking, but I think that I need to combine my client management, with my project management tool.
Would you consider adding some features to allow clients limited access to staction? Could be a way to think of staction as ‘locations’ clients get added to a ‘conference room’ location, and employees / contractors have access to the ‘planning room’ – I’m sure you all could figure out a smart way to add that functionality in without taking away from staction’s keen simplicity.
Hi Greg,
Thanks for taking the time to watch the tour and comment. We always appreciate hearing people’s thoughts.
That is an interesting idea about different locations. Certainly something for us to think about for the future. I’ll be honest though, we’re generally quite slow to implement big features like this – so it won’t be in the near term future if it happens at all.
For right now, you can always create users and then limit their access with Staction’s permission system – that would approximate what you’re talking about I think.
Thanks again for the comment.
G’day Guys,
Just came across your product via twitter, haven’t really looked at it yet as the videos are .mov files which I can’t view on my machine. (I know, just download the 40mb plugin… not that simple, I can’t view .mov files in a browser for a technical reason )
Anyway, just an encouragement to use flash video as it really is the standard for video on the web.
Thanks, Aaron.
Hey Aaron,
Thanks for stopping by to check Staction out. We’ve actually uploaded all the tour videos on our Vimeo page for just such an situation. You can check the videos out here, http://vimeo.com/pasteinteractive .