Evans: ClickUp's Lineup feature was a flop that never gained traction
Zeb Evans · Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans · Nov 16, 2021 · at 10:45
ClickUp founder and CEO Zeb Evans discusses failed product experiments with Nathan Latka.
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“A feature called lineup is honestly, it's one of those where, The whole vision for it was to be able to prioritize your work and know exactly what people should work on next. So picture a list of five tasks. That's each person has in your company. That's this is their priority. It just never took off. It never really went in anywhere. And so it actually still exists in our product. And I know we'll be able to get back to it at some point and use automation to make it better. But that was certainly a flop.”
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