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Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Post by ljuti »

Raisin wrote: post #8

This is perfect. With my team of 3 there couldn't be an easier way to do this. Thanks for this. Also killer design.

Thanks! We have small teams ourselves and we created this based on what we need. Great to hear that it'll be useful for others, too.

Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Post by ljuti »

sp4rki wrote: post #10

This looks really cool, and is designed beautifully. The only thing is that it id kind of featureless to be really useful for managing projects (read: even though I love the concept and execution, I wouldn't pay to use it yet). I do think that the design is beautiful and will probably make an excellent company dashboard on a big screen in the office. Add more project management tools, if you guys can merge help desk…

Thanks for the feedback!

First, this app is 48 hours old so we didn't have too much time to build features. We'll likely introduce new stuff later on.

Second, this tool is actually more for project portfolio management than project management per se. The goal is to let teams use the tools that they like for ticketing, bug reports, etc. and focus more on scheduling, resourcing and overview of the projects in an organization.

Currently we have GitHub integration with commit messages updating the project activity stream. We have plans to introduce other integrations like this.

Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Post by swah »

ljuti wrote: post #6
russell_h wrote: post #5

Nice! It seems easy enough to use and the design is downright gorgeous. What are your plans for this? I could definitely see myself paying for this.

Thanks for the compliments! Due to the excellent feedback we've received, we are planning on commercializing this soon.

So, can you teach us something about the design process? I too found it very pleasing.

Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Post by ljuti »

swah wrote: post #15
ljuti wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the compliments! Due to the excellent feedback we've received, we are planning on commercializing this soon.

So, can you teach us something about the design process? I too found it very pleasing.

Hopefully. :) We'll try to pressure our designer @karrisaarinen to write a blog post about it.

Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Post by DanielRibeiro »

Acunote (http://www.acunote.com/promo) is still better (which I'll admit is kinda an unfair comparison, given this was made in only 48 hours). Managing an agile backlog is possible in acunote. And it is free for up to 7 users (startups will be able to go a long way before having to pay).

Also acunote makes sure you don't have to reload the page most of the time (even though Splendid's reload is very fast). I'd really recommend competitors to borrow from it.

Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

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Post by ljuti »

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #18

Acunote ( http://www.acunote.com/promo ) is still better (which I'll admit is kinda an unfair comparison, given this was made in only 48 hours). Managing an agile backlog is possible in acunote. And it is free for up to 7 users (startups will be able to go a long way before having to pay). Also acunote makes sure you don't have to reload the page most of the time (even though Splendid's reload is very fast). I'd real…

Thanks for checking out the application.

We think it solves a different problem than Acunote. From our own experience, tools often get in the way of working and Acunote does a lot more than we and other small teams need.

And as I eluded to in another comment, we think Splendid Bacon lets you use tools like Acunote to manage the backlog and other details or accomplish other similar project tasks.

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