At least we've tried
At least we've tried
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
2019
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
There are dozens
of collaborative productivity tools on the market.
Not that we are significantly better.
of collaborative productivity tools on the market.
Not that we are significantly better.
We just can't help building another one.
We just can't help building another one.
We have miserably spent 5 (possibly 6?) years of our lives and are still ashamed of the result.
Create custom
Spaces, breathe deeply
Create custom
Spaces, breathe deeply
Spaces, breathe deeply
Maybe, Fibery will be really good 2 years from now.
Learning Curve
Unfamiliar terms, new abstractions and an 'original' API.
Missing Features
Automations, forms, entity-level permissions, and blocks among other things.
Mobile Last
No Android or iOS apps, never tested on a touch screen.
It only gets worse
from here
It only gets worse
from here
from here
It's not just the creator who suffers, but everyone else too.
Intolerable Quality
No QA engineer, poor test coverage and 500+ open bugs.
Unpolished Interface
We cut corners to beat the deadline, sorry.
Unknown Uptime
Production cluster is a few weeks old, let's pray for the best.
Go with the tool
that works!
Go with the tool
that works!
that works!
Nobody ever got fired for buying Atlassian.
Notion
Pick for a better wiki, more flexible structure and desktop apps.
Airtable
Go for fast tables, diverse templates and an intuitive API.
Coda
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.
Marc Andreessen, investor
Ben Horowitz, investor
Paul Graham, venture capitalist
Peter Thiel, venture capitalist
Andrey Filon, investment director
Don Valentine, venture capitalist
Ellen Pao, investor
Warren Buffett, investor
Jess Lee, venture capitalist
Mara, Credit Blanc Suisse