We removed more than we added.
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Every task tool becomes a second job
The pattern repeats regardless of which tool a team picks. Adoption is enthusiastic. The board is beautiful for six weeks. Then updating it starts competing with doing the work, and updating loses — quietly, without anyone announcing it. Three months later the tool is a museum of intentions and the real status lives in someone's head. We did not think this was a discipline problem. We thought it was a design problem: the tools ask for more maintenance than the value they return, and people respond rationally.
Four principles, applied consistently
The tool should lose to the work
Every feature has to help someone finish a task, not just help someone report on one. Anything that only serves reporting is a candidate for removal — which is how the AI inbox we shipped last year ended up being taken back out.
Defaults over configuration
A configurable tool moves the design work onto you and then charges you again in maintenance. We would rather make a decision, be wrong occasionally, and change it for everyone.
Assignment requires agreement
Handing someone a task is a request. Until they accept it, nobody should be able to assume it is underway. This is the single opinion that most shapes the product.
Say the limitation out loud
There is no board view, no automation engine, no custom fields, and no public API. We would rather you read that here than discover it in week three.
The feature we took back out
We built an AI inbox that scanned Slack, email, and meeting transcripts for action items and proposed them as tasks. It demonstrated well. In practice it produced a queue of maybe-tasks that people had to triage — a new inbox to process, on top of the ones they already had, which is precisely the failure mode the product exists to avoid. So we removed it, and the integrations that only fed it went with it. It may come back if we find a version that reduces work rather than relocating it. Until then we would rather have a smaller product that does not lie about what it saves you.
Early, and saying so
TIBLR is free because we are at the stage where teams using it and telling us what is wrong matters more than revenue. There is no board view, no automation engine, no custom fields, and no public API. If any of those are essential to you, our comparison pages will point you somewhere better, and we would genuinely rather do that than waste your time.