Yet another collaboration tool

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Anxiety started as one of four random landing pages back in 2019 — the wildest bet of the bunch. What began as swapping marketing copy for literal joke captions evolved into something bolder: real bugs, infinite loaders, and genuinely bad testimonials, all served straight-faced. The look has changed since then, but the honesty hasn't.

Lena Dorogenskaya

Lena Dorogenskaya

Behind the scenes

The full story of how this page — and the whole 2019 site — was made is told by Lena, our designer,

in her article. Spoiler: the team thought it was a failure. The internet disagreed.

"Two middle age business workers smiling happy and confident." by krakenimages

Yet another
collaboration tool

Claims to be all-in-one, is mediocre at everything.

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There are dozens
of collaborative productivity tools on the market.

Not that we are significantly better.

We just can't help building another one.

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We have miserably spent 5 (possibly 6?) years of our lives and are still ashamed of the result.

Try. Suffer. Quit.

Brace yourself, it won't be a smooth ride

Create custom
Spaces, breathe deeply

Maybe, Fibery will be really good 2 years from now.

Learning Curve

Learning Curve

Unfamiliar terms, new abstractions and an 'original' API.

Missing Features

Missing Features

Automations, forms, entity-level permissions, and blocks among other things.

No Android or iOS apps, never tested on a touch screen.

Try.Suffer. Quit.

Somehow you've managed to set this up.

It only gets worse
from here

It's not just the creator who suffers, but everyone else too.

Intolerable Quality

Intolerable Quality

No QA engineer, poor test coverage and 500+ open bugs.

Unpolished Interface

Unpolished Interface

We cut corners to beat the deadline, sorry.

Unknown Uptime

Unknown Uptime

Production cluster is a few weeks old, let's pray for the best.

Try. Suffer. Quit.

Why risk your reputation with unproven software?

Go with the tool
that works!

Nobody ever got fired for buying Atlassian.

Pick for a better wiki, more flexible structure and desktop apps.

Go for fast tables, diverse templates and an intuitive API.

Choose because of powerful formulas and automations.

But we have 🏠 mortgages...

Get a single connected workspace where all teams are welcome.

Back to boring:

Inspired by investors.