For those who do not build their own task and client management tools, what are your thoughts on this, good and bad? Is it useful, or is it missing features that you would expect?
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i think that honestly looks fantastic and very impressive. and by far the best-looking app in terms of UI and functionality I've seen created on wappler.
however, I don't think i would ever switch my tools (clickup and discord) because they are so useful and feature complete. Which they should be, as they are like billion dollar companies. If I did want to switch, there is a lot of free opensource tools very similar to clickup/discord that I could start up for free.
Not meaning to discourage, as its impressive what you've built, but that's just my opinion on what id use for my business as tools.
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Keith,
If I was still actively employed as the Engineering Manager of a large manufacturing company, I would certainly consider purchasing Brightyard. With having to manage toolmakers, electricians, plumbers, boilermakers, turners and fitters with the production staff as my client, Brightyard would have made my task a lot easier.
Mind you, any shortcomings in the application would be more apparent after using the product.
All I can say now: Well done and I wish you a lot of success.
Ben
PS: I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation:
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Thanks @Hinky! What features do you use the most in those? What's the reason for Discord over Clickup chat?
Yeah, it's a crowded space and it's hard to compete with free. I'm hoping to get an initial base of users and gain enough feedback to create some unique features that make it more desirable.
That's a good reminder. I need to add groups to tasks. Right now it's only assignable to individuals.
Thanks @ben!
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Clickup, I just really like the tasks, allowing for high customizability on each one and nested sub-tasks. I use it for my technical teams, general admin team, and account, or specific tasks for clients (new features or long running issues they have). For example, the custom attributes section is really useful, can template everything, for example tracking outstanding invoices, the custom attribute section, we have client details, last contacted, confidence level, and importance, then the comment section, all uploads all related to that to just track how we are following up and anything irregular (example common excuses that we see as red flags).
I don't use clickup chat because, I play games, so I'm just used to discord, and is free, (idk how), also has voice chats, video, sharing and so on. We use clickup comments as like task specific chat so our general chats don't get messy.
I also use the clickup docs a lot, few of my docs has like 70k words, which is just my second brain and tutorials. (I don't like the docs much, but just convenient its all there)
Clickup, also has integrations with everything, so example discord, specific tasks we get notifications to our discord group for relevant teams (dev or account or editing team).
I truly do hope it goes well for you 
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i stress enough with competing against my competitors, and their teams are like probs 100x smaller than your competitors.
Also sorry I really probs not helping at all. because unique features I would ever want would be highly specific to my business, which i would just build myself in the current dashboard app.
This is extremely helpful and I appreciate your perspective. I agree that the ability to customize and integrate with other apps are must-haves. I tried to plan for those future additions as I built the app, but they're more complex to build and I'm still a solo founder with too little time in the day. 
I've also thought about turning portions of the code into custom app connect components so they are easier to use across pages and only need to be updated in one place. Long term, figuring out how to build a "module builder" that stores the page code in the database allowing for quick creation of new modules using common UI components in the app that are injected into the app's webview at runtime.