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Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript

by trastentrasten on 8/21/19, 8:35 AM with 27 comments

  • by chrisMyzel on 8/21/19, 1:49 PM

    Awesome - it happened I was exactly thinking about a tool like this when on a long meeting call today.

    I have clients that refuse to use another tool, refuse another sign up in their email account . In the same time those clients are mostly chaotic to unorganized and we tend to repeat the same points over and over again in the course of a year until all points are fulfilled (web platform dev work).

    This tool seems like the just Trello enough for ONE single view - no explanation to give - will try this from next week's meeting call on

  • by latchkey on 8/21/19, 2:41 PM

    So... the reason why Pivotal Tracker is still my favorite tool is because most PM's want to know when a feature is going to be done. With PT, developers assign points to stories and the 3 week average (customizable) is what makes a velocity.

    If velocity is 20, then 20 points worth of stories fit into an iteration (week). Points include testing, so that isn't cut out, like with sprints. As a PM, I can get developers to point stories out for a few weeks worth of iterations. If I need to move stories around, I can do that easily and I can see how moving things around affects 'when it will be available'.

    If I was going to use another tool, I'd want PT's 'velocity' as a base feature for sure.

  • by KhalPanda on 8/21/19, 3:03 PM

    I'm curious, is there a featmap for featmap? :)

  • by Gys on 8/21/19, 12:35 PM

    Looks very nice. I would use Trello for this normally as it does the job good enough. This seems like a more specific service. I am curious how many ppl will choose this instead and for what reasons.

  • by umpc on 8/21/19, 4:26 PM

    Just a thought: I tried using the demo on mobile and it was easy to accidentally reorder/reorganize tasks.

    Perhaps place an undo button nearby or somehow decrease touch sensitivity without removing functionality?

  • by topicseed on 8/21/19, 9:42 PM

    What's the license on the code?

  • by sphix0r on 8/21/19, 2:08 PM

    Thanks! Seems very useful and clean enough to inform stake holders and the entire team.

  • by ReD_CoDE on 8/21/19, 6:29 PM

    I think Featmap is good and I think if you want to work on some ideas that have the potential to become startups I have some ideas in mind. Do you want hear them?

  • by plexiglass on 8/21/19, 3:50 PM

    Can't wait to try this! I used miro.com in the past but it has a paywall. Congrats on the launch.