We’ve made four releases in March. Total Highlights Score: 310 (for comparison, it was 788 in February). Overall, it was more about polishing and smaller things.
Polina recorded a nice webinar again, watch it to see all changes in action:
Now, let’s talk about our current activities and plans:
Import
One major obstacle on the way to adopting and even exploring Fibery is getting the data in.
Hypothesis: if we make it easier to import data from elsewhere, more people will understand Fibery and there will be less friction to switch from other tools.
The workspaces that create, import, or sync at least 100 entities in the first 14 days after sign-up, are 17 times more likely to purchase (9.9% vs. 0.6%). So far only around 8% of workspaces fall into this category.
I bet we can make it 8% → 12% of workspaces while keeping the predictive power of the import/create action (at least 15x difference). In this case, we’ll improve the overall conversion rate from sign-up to purchase by around 15%.
There will be three main tracks:
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Make import more discoverable and improve the general UX, regardless of the data source.
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Make CSV import great as we will never add decent connectors for all the tools:
– Merge CSV and CSV 2.0 import
– Find, merge, and prevent duplicates based on Field
– Update existing entities via CSV import -
Improve connectors to our top Competitors:
– Import Pages and rich text from Notion
– Slice ClickUp Tasks into multiple Databases based on Task Type
We’ll start in April.
Permissions
Group sharing, especially DB sharing, has received some adoption while the rest of the functionality is steady:
As Andrew is migrating Space permissions to the new model to unlock Allow not to extend access from Space to its Databases, we continue to focus on simplification:
- Explain sources in access audit
- Add Access page for Spaces and Databases
- Manage Users like any other Database
- Manage User Groups as part of User DB settings
The next important thing here is Explain access templates.
Adding and updating data
Required fields
We are finalizing features to make the addition of records with required fields easier. Almost all tasks are completed, and we will close this area for good in April.
Next
Eugene will finalize all this grand development with Simplify adding new entities when Name generated via formula.
Sidebar
We have finalized Sidebar changes with some improvements and not gonna touch it again in near future (only very small things and bug fixes).
- Merge search results for both tabs in the sidebar
- Make d&d in the left menu great
- Separate Space configuration and collaboration in sidebar
Next
The last piece we want to do is Home Page in Fibery. I hope we will start it in April.
Gantt View
We are going to finalize timeline improvements with the major update. I hope we will release it in April (at least first version).
AI
We’ve restarted AI theme last month and expanding it now with a major development around getting started and Smart Agent.
Q&A Smart Agent
It is a very capable beast that can answer complex questions around Fibery data. Around 10 customers tried early prototype and 7 of them liked it, some liked it very much. We almost completed all needed functionality and are going to release it in April.
What is remaining:
- UI
- Data sources (to help people check reply correctness somehow)
- Create new entities from the replies
- Maybe chat history
Getting started
Our grand idea is to give users full control over Fibery Workspace via text commands, so a user can start building Fibery workspace expressing problems, not solutions. First, we will build a prototype to see how it works. Nothing to share so far.
Whiteboard
We have finished developing comments and whiteboard external sharing. The remaining work includes improving sections (in progress) and groups, plus embedding individual views (board, table, doc etc.) into the whiteboard. Once that’s done, we’ll take a break from adding new features.
- Share whiteboard externally
- Whiteboard: Sections improvements
- Embed views into the whiteboard (reports, tables, etc)
Mobile
We’ve started developing mobile apps for iOS and Android. The first TestFlight/Google Play version for beta testers will have better sidebar navigation, an improved view’s toolbar, a new rich text editing panel, and updated popups behavior on mobile.
P.S. Ask your questions and provide constructive (or crazy) ideas. 
