Splendid Bacon in simple words is "Splendid". Keep up the good work and make it awesomer! Totally loving it!
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
#62Is there a way to "complete" a project? Am I missing something?
Currently no, in the future we'll probably add the "completed" state, or something similar...
Which is what I love about smart development. People worry so much about features, scalability et al that they end up never building anything!
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#63Full disclosure: I was on the team who built this. I really love how this turned out.
I just started a new project with a friend of mine. We'll be using Splendid Bacon. This is such a KILLER app!!
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the kind words! We do have some plans, but we really need to gather feedback and then decide what's the roadmap. Firewall version has been planned, but we had no time to think about the pricing yet. I'm sure we need some sleep before that :)
I'm sure! :) Still, amazing work for 48 hours. How large was your team?
It was developed by a team of 4. Happy to know you like it!
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#65Looks very clean and beautiful. Feedback on your branding - maybe everyone in your social circle eats bacon and it's cool and loves it, but the name will probably be an emotional level turnoff to vegetarians, Jews who eat kosher, and Muslims who eat halal, or people who otherwise don't eat pork. Something to think about before you really get rolling, because you might potentially have an unnecessarily hard time break…
Hm, I think I just might call my next project Yummy Maggots...
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#66Firstly: I think you've done a great job for 48 hours. That's an awesome inspiration. Secondly: what is the purpose of the random characters (e.g. %, 2) on the front page and elsewhere? I found the characters on the front page to be somewhat unbalanced, especially the comma. Once I tried the demo, I thought they might be indicating keyboard shortcuts, but nothing happened (firefox 3.0, crunchbang linux). I'm not sure…
Glad you like it! I'm sorry to hear that the site doesn't render properly on Firefox 3.0. We are using @font-face and the Pictos icon set for the icons, and only newer browsers support it. Here's what it actually looks like: http://skitch.com/jcxplorer/d5hdh/splendid-bacon
Ah, that's much better. Cool!
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#67Looks very clean and beautiful. Feedback on your branding - maybe everyone in your social circle eats bacon and it's cool and loves it, but the name will probably be an emotional level turnoff to vegetarians, Jews who eat kosher, and Muslims who eat halal, or people who otherwise don't eat pork. Something to think about before you really get rolling, because you might potentially have an unnecessarily hard time break…
Hm, I think I just might call my next project Yummy Maggots...
> Hm, I think I just might call my next project Yummy Maggots...
It's okay to offend people if offending people furthers your goals and strategy. Typically though, if the offense is tangential to your product and doesn't polarize people, or get one group really excited, or target your customerbase while turning off other people, then it's a bad idea.
So, "Yummy Maggots" could work for... I don't know, some sort of grossout humor site, or maybe some hybrid survival horror/dark humor game, or something like that. But it probably wouldn't be a good name for bug tracking software, because it'd turn off legitimate potential users without turning on, segmenting, or otherwise intelligently engaging other users.
It's okay to offend people. Just know why exactly you're doing it.
(I know I just gave a serious reply to a sarcastic remark, but I thought it was a good topic to riff on)
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#68Saw this on Forrst earlier today and I'm still loving it. Great to see your project is getting so much attention. It deserves it.
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#69I can't sign up from the 'try the demo' link. I tried changing my demo account, but it wouldn't let me (the existing password was blank, it complained).
After a while I figured out I needed to logout and sign up again.
Re: Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
#70Yet another project management service? I'm amazed out how often these pop-up promising that they are the now "simplest" project management solution. Where's the differentiation? Other than the UI and a couple custom fields, these are no different than Basecamp, Producteev, GoPlan, etc. etc...
With that said, I think it looks and functions great. Very user-friendly. Would I use it? Probably not. My team seems to hate every simple project management website service. The ultimate project management service is to integrate something within the current workflow, which does not involve a separate website nor does it involve creating tasks, etc. I'm just stating the problem, but unfortunately I don't have a solution. I just find it fascinating that there are SO many project management services, but none work for our team.
The ideal solution would HAVE to have smartphone apps for major platforms, and gmail integration. Heck, it doesn't even need to have a website frontend.