Ask YC: What do you use for Project Management?

Basecamp from 37signals, love it.

For the last year I have been thinking about how to do a proper project management app on the web - and once you start thinking about it you realise that it is a lot harder than you think. Basically the problem is that if you have 100 project managers they will manage in 100 different ways. Which makes it extremely hard to do something that will have exactly the features each manager need.

As it is now you can basically choose between project (great with gannt charts and dependencies, but you can't do much else and have to spend loads of time updating it), excel (lots of lists but nothing else, and no interaction with other people), or something like basecamp, which is pretty simple and really just an extended to-do list.

Whatever project you do, and whatever you choose it never quite fits, there's always something missing.

The real killer, of course, is that even though you need a gazillion features for all the different sorts of projects and managers it still needs to be simple to use.

So this is what I spend my time developing - who knows it might even work...

I am a one man band so I just use http://backpackit.com not going to be that useful for teams. basecamp is pretty cool.

have you looked at liquid planner that was showcased at demo 08? that looks pretty tidy.

Mingle http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence

"I use "Project Management" or "Planner" available in Ubuntu's repositories."

Same as me. Free, and easy.