waffle.io was github projects, built on top of the github api, a few years before github projects. basically a github-based kanban board. It was pretty great if you were a smallish startup.
I worked at a small startup that used it, and I didn't see the point. It was clever in how it provided an alternative interface to GitHub Issues, but to someone who was already familiar with GitHub, it didn't really make anything easier than just using the normal interface. There are things I hate about GitHub Issues, but this didn't solve any of them.
Plus, an add-on service like that was just begging for GitHub to add the feature themselves, so the company always had an end-of-life looming.
One possible exit was GitHub buying them, but I'm sure GitHub would rather build the feature natively (as they did, right?) for technical reasons. Another is expanding to a standalone service, but GitHub and Trello already owned each side of that space.
It always looked like a technically interesting product but one that I wouldn't use myself and which had no future.
Plus, an add-on service like that was just begging for GitHub to add the feature themselves, so the company always had an end-of-life looming.
One possible exit was GitHub buying them, but I'm sure GitHub would rather build the feature natively (as they did, right?) for technical reasons. Another is expanding to a standalone service, but GitHub and Trello already owned each side of that space.
It always looked like a technically interesting product but one that I wouldn't use myself and which had no future.