Docs for building software

Docs for building software

Balsa is for organizing ideas, tracking projects, and collaborating with your team. Give it a try and see how it can simplify your workflow!

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Balsa Roadmap

Balsa Roadmap

In progress

Jan 04, 2023

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Highlights the important stuff

status, Date,
& links

Balsa keeps your team and external shareholders up-to-date, with minimal extra work. The status, key dates, and relevant links of your project are available at a glance and sharing a project update takes just a click.

Highlights the important stuff

Balsa keeps your team and external shareholders up-to-date, with minimal extra work. The status, key dates, and relevant links of your project are available at a glance and sharing a project update takes just a click.

Balsa Modules v2 final

#feat-better-docs

Add a new link

Write an update

A better doc for making software

We are huge fans of products like Dropbox Paper and Notion. These products are great for lots of different use cases, but we aim to make a document that is great for making software—with the ability to write specs and put a plan into action in one place.

  • Simplified text formatting that make docs easy to write and a joy to read

  • Structured modules like milestones that can power views like timelines and rosters

  • All-in-one workflow from doc to execution without the overhead of out-of-date documentation or switching tools

Reads & writes beautifullY

Our document editor is the perfect tool for product, technical, and design specs - both utilitarian and delightful.

Reads & writes beautifullY

Our document editor is the perfect tool for product, technical, and design specs - both utilitarian and delightful.

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Problem Statement

Making software is a team effort that requires collaboration and coordination among team members. However, the current tools available for writing and managing software documentation are often disconnected from the actual development process, leading to inefficiencies, misunderstandings, and delays. This product aims to solve these problems by providing a better way to write, organize, and execute software plans in one place.

Audience

  • Product managers, who need to write and communicate specs and plans to their team

  • Engineers, who need to understand the requirements and dependencies of a project

  • Designers, who need to collaborate with engineers and other stakeholders

  • Executives, who need to stay updated on the progress of the project and make informed decisions based on the data

helps you get started

Sometimes the hardest part of writing specs is the first step. Jot down a little about your project and Balsa will help you hit the ground running with some AI-assisted suggestions…

Designs for the text formatting bar. We also support keyboard shortcuts and _some_ markdown.

Kickoff prep

Create a feature channel in Slack

Project plan first draft (this one)

Kick off meeting

Balsa's checkboxes are no ordinary checkboxes. With milestones and tasks, you can easily organize your projects, track progress, assign responsibility, and power views like timeline.

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Highlighting

Milestones and tasks

Paragraph

Image annotation: it would be so useful to be able annotate screenshots/comps

Bullets and lists

Code formatting

Timeline view

powers a timeline view

Balsa visualizes your projects for you - from a bird's eye view, you can see how they might affect each other and the progress of your team overall.

powers a timeline view

Balsa visualizes your projects for you - from a bird's eye view, you can see how they might affect each other and the progress of your team overall.

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Text Formatting

Kickoff 👉

Refactor 🪢

Basic formatting 🐣

Anchor text ⚓️

⚙️

Modules

Text modules ✏️

Lists and bullets 🔢

Milestone module

Pizza party 🍕

👯‍♀️

Team roster modules

Kickoff

BE breakdown 🦉

1% launch

1% launch

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Sort: status

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Text Formatting

Kickoff 👉

Refactor 🪢

Basic formatting 🐣

Anchor text ⚓️

⚙️

Modules

Text modules ✏️

Lists and bullets 🔢

Milestone module

Pizza party 🍕

👯‍♀️

Team roster modules

Kickoff

BE breakdown 🦉

1% launch

1% launch

Starter

FREE

Up to 5 projects

Status updates

Timeline

Directory

Calendar integration

Professional

$24

per user / month, billed annually
$29 billed monthly

Everything in free...

Unlimited projects

Private projects

Timeline annotation

Initiatives

Enterprise

$99

per user / month, billed annually
$199 billed monthly

Everything in pro...

Private initiatives

Reporting

SAML SSO

SCIM provisioning

Starter

FREE

Up to 5 projects

Status updates

Timeline

Directory

Calendar integration

Professional

$24

per user / month, billed annually
$29 billed monthly

Everything in free...

Unlimited projects

Private projects

Timeline annotation

Initiatives

Enterprise

$99

per user / month, billed annually
$199 billed monthly

Everything in pro...

Private initiatives

Reporting

SAML SSO

SCIM provisioning

Get Started quickly

Start your next project in Balsa and invite your teammates to help.