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by dchuk 1619 days ago
(Not trying to discourage you)

For those companies that have sufficiently consumed the Atlassian Kool-Aid, what differentiates this product from just using Confluence? Confluence has pretty robust widgets/embedding options, plus there's the plugin ecosystem to unlock embedding external things like designs/etc. And obviously it easily connects to jira for tickets.
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addorai 1619 days ago
Interestingly, Confluence doesn't have a 2 way sync with Jira. You can embed Jira tickets but you can't push content from Confluence to Jira and automatically create tickets.

Aside from that, we've designed Fable to be customized for the product team workflow - with features like the decision feed, zippy content editing, etc.

We also work with Linear, which has a fast growing user base

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bberenberg 1619 days ago
You can push content from Confluence into Jira, it's been around for years [1] but this functionality does need to improve. At the same time, Atlassian has also has created Jira Product Discovery which is currently in closed beta [2]

1 https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-jira-applications-a...

2 https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery/wa...

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addorai 1619 days ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. In Confluence you can highlight content and create a ticket - it just prefills the title of the ticket to be the highlighted content. You still have to fill in the description. Then after pushing it to Jira there's no ongoing sync.

Fable has a true push + sync, where the live content in the editor is continuously sync'ed with Jira. This means you can keep editing product requirements in the place that your whole team lives (marketing, design, sales, of course eng) and not worry about tickets going stale

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