Martin Welker

Zenkit 3.0 - Flexible project management you can share with the world

Zenkit 3.0 is a new way for users to share their work online with published and embedded collections, a documented API, new integrations, brand new mobile apps, and more (for free!)

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Kaitlyn Hanrahan

Mobile app works nice too.

Pros:

I recommend Zenkit all the time. Helpful to look at my same action items in different views like calendar, mindmap and kaban/Trello

Cons:

It's still just a tool. It won't do your work for you.

Denis Shershnev
Congrats guys! You've done great work! Awesome product!
Bogna H.
I'm definitely going to try it out, looks like a great alternative for Trello! On a side not - your design and visuals absolutely rock :D
Richard Pearce

I've tried a ton of project management solutions and I always found myself having to compromise my process at some point. However the custom fields in Zenkit provides the flexibility missing in many other solutions. The new "Publish Collection" pretty much completes my needs as it's now easy for clients to view the status of a project. This feature currently uses a public, unsecured URL, which is fine for me as the URL is impossibe to guess, but some will prefer this to be password protected. If you've used similar apps before, you'll be able to switch with little grief.

Pros:

A familiar interface, but with greater flexibility

Cons:

None that I've found

Clifford Fajardo
PROS: - much more flexible & featureful than Trello out of the box. Trello requires a plugin for just about everything, which is inconvenient; this is a more of a one stop hub experience! - calendar integration, different views (table, kanban, list) - Filtered views - embeddable collections (you can share them on your website..) CONS: - no global view across projects yet. It would be amazing to be able to filter and view everything in one view to update/cross/delete items. Similar to this:
- API docs/API stuff in general is lacking. You need to use Zapier and a combination of other services. I dislike this model of having to integrate too many 3rd parties (sometimes it makes sense). If Zenkit had API docs & experience similar to Airtable (auto generated docs based on your data), they would crush the competition:
- slower than Trello & not as fast. Under the hood, it looks like they're still using AngularJS v1 (looked at Chrome dev tools) to build their frontend application. Inherently, this is going to be much slower than if they used a modern version of their javascript framework or another framework so they can take advantage of the build time optimizations like treeshaking (dead code), faster UI updates (angular 1 change detection mechanism is significantly slower than what's available now) and lazily loading modules, among many other things that could be improved. I used to work with Angular 1, so I know a bit about these and have worked on highly performant frontend UI's.. Feel free to reach out to me directly on twitter or here too. I really want Zenkit to succeed since it's really good, but I know it can way better with time =). Ask me web performance questions as well. I used to work on web peformance on Linkedin.com, plus I just plain love the topic of web performance and frontend engineering. @martinwelker , @peter_oehler1 , @peter_oehler