Fibery.io chronicles #18. Enduring January 2020.
By: Michael Dubakov
Tags: SaaS, Startup, Product Management, Fibery, Software Development

It is hard to say what these metrics mean, but it is not a sign of great traction yet.

Product Updates

January was strange. There were many distractions caused by technical instabilities, technical interviews, sick days and deep refactoring of events in Fibery that is still in progress. I am not happy about our development velocity (well, I never am, so maybe I have to change my perception).

DONE

Migration from Trello

You can migrate your Trello boards into Fibery and augment cards with additional data.

Trello → Fibery migration

Color entities in Tables, Boards, and Timelines

Finally, you can add colors based on some rules into Views.

Color entities in Fibery.

Login from Fibery.io web site

Many people had complained that they don’t know how to login into their Fibery accounts. Indeed, you had to remember the account name to log in. Now you can log in from the Fibery web site and select between all your registered accounts:

Login into your Fibery account from the web site.

IN PROGRESS

All the features below should be released in February. February 2020.

Whiteboard v.0.2

It’s taking longer than expected, but in February we will deliver something if Vadim will survive the grind. In this version, it will be possible to create diagrams. The next step is to create Fibery entities from diagrams to make the whiteboard (finally) useful.

Better CSV import

When you upload a CSV file, we automatically guess Field types from the data. Unfortunately, our algorithm is not perfect and there is no way to manually adjust the Field types at the moment. In the new version, feel free to overwrite the robot’s predictions.

Better import from CSV is coming.

New Getting Started

The current getting started is tough. A new user has to create the first app from scratch without any knowledge about Fibery building blocks. In fact, we ask him to speak meaningful phrases using an unknown language. It’s cruel… In the new version, we will provide a set of templates to start with and some videos to watch (optional).

We expect people will get some value from Fibery earlier and then will be motivated enough to learn the building blocks eventually.

New Getting Started page in Fibery.

Login via any email and switch workspaces

Soon it will be possible to register a Fibery account using any email (not just a Google or a Microsoft account) and quickly switch between several accounts in the top left section of the Fibery menu.

Workspace switch in Fibery left menu.

Events queue refactoring

Andrew is killing himself to make events reliable and stable. The problem is that in Fibery you can change data and meta-data, and we still want to have correct history information to build reports, provide changes history to people, etc. It is a surprisingly challenging task since it is impossible to cover all the cases and make history 100% correct no matter what. So we apply the “best effort” principle here and are trying to be as consistent as possible. Still, this is hard to achieve and we have already done a couple of iterations.

This holds our public release since we want to have history info for all new accounts. We all hope that Andrew will finish the task in 1–2 weeks and not die 🐨.

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Fibery Getting Started is HARD.

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