Fibery.io chronicles #15. Multi-tasking October.
By: Michael Dubakov
Tags: No Code, Startup, Productivity, Fibery, Product Management

How pricing will change in future? First, users with read-only access will not be billed. Second, we might consider pricing differentiations for real creators and usual users like editors. Anyway, we don’t want to have complicated pricing scheme and it seems Coda did it wrong, too many users complained. We want to avoid repeating their mistake.

NOTE: All private beta accounts will enjoy one year of Company edition for free.

Features

DONE: Fast selection and new entities creation in inner lists

It took surprisingly long to make it happen. Somehow all existing solutions are not great and we had to customize intensively to have good performance. Sometimes we think that Javascript is doomed in a long term and everything should be re-written on canvas (this is only part-joke).

DONE: New left menu with Folders

Finally, we are quite happy with information organization in Fibery. You can group Views and Documents in Folders, thus replicating your desired content structure.

DONE: App creation flow re-design

Since first release is focusing on creators, we re-designed App Creation flow. Dozens of improvements were made, so it is hard to enumerate them all. Now we are doing usability tests to fix rough edges.

In Progress: Canvas View

Canvas View is still in active development, so there is a risk to miss it in a release. You can add Tree View component and visualize hierarchy, but that is it so far.

Canvas View current state

In Progress: Stable production cluster

We decided to ditch continuous deployment for production accounts and deploy new releases weekly. However, we’ll still have Edge environment for early adopters (and ourselves) with 10–20 deploys per day.

In Progress: Polishing 🇵🇱

We still have ~50 bugs and small stories to fix and implement. 😅

Public Release Roadmap

Last record of this kind. Almost everything is completed. Overall we skipped automations and history reports. We’re releasing Fibery in November 💪.

✔︎ Search ✔︎ CSV Import ︎︎✔︎ Public API ✔︎ Metrics (Formula Field) ✔ Table View. We discovered that Boards are not enough for many cases, and we will add Table View (or Spreadsheet View if you like) ✔ Domain evolution: we will finalize renames (Apps, Types, Fields). Now it causes some problems. ✔ Permissions: Collaborator role (a user that can’t change things created by other users), and we will deny Views modification by ordinary users as well ✔✘ [Only Action Buttons so far] Automation Rules. It will enable process automation, like internal Zapier. ✔ Notifications (mentions, in-app, activity stream, Slack, Email). ✘ [Postponed] History information and reports (CFD, Burndown Chart, Burnup Chart, Burnout Chart) ⇢ Account management and payments (some tasks are in progress) ✔ New web site ✔ Getting Started experience ⇢ Polish EVERYTHING. ⇢ Haha 😅

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NONE. We were so busy nobody took a photo…

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End user programming can be fun too. In the spreadsheet study, one of the pleasures of having done the research was to frequently hear people who have never taken a computer science class describe their work with spreadsheets as "fun." A cynic with tongue-in-cheek remarked to me that perhaps this is the most fun accountants can have, but it is safe to say that most designers would be happy to have millions of satisfied users enthusiastically and productively using their product.

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