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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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holman wrote: post #27
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…

> Acunote is still better. To be fair, I suspect Acunote may be just a little bit older than 48 hours old. ;) Splendid Bacon looks pretty awesome considering.

The first 95% of any app is always the easy bit. It's that last 5% that takes years.

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

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Post by nhebb »

lionhearted wrote: post #54

Looks 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…

Re lionhearted's comments:

Sometimes it's hard to discuss topics like this without being judged as PC at best or a Milquetoast at worst. But ultimately this is a business forum and businesses need to market.

Copywriter Joseph Sugarman wrote a book called Advertising Secrets of the Written Word. It's the kind of title you'd expect from a long-copy copywriter, but it's worth reading for his list of 57 points to consider in advertising. Part of marketing is about breaking down walls to acceptance, which is what I really got out of the 57 points. So the last thing you want to do is build a wall to conversion right out of the gate.

In other words, this is my long-winded way of saying that I agree with lionhearted.

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

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Post by dabeeeenster »

This is great - we've been looking for a scheduling app to replace an Excel sheet that we've been using, and this is close to what I had in my head.

One thing we'd happily pay for would be the ability to have finer grained resourcing. So instead of just saying who is working on what project, say precisely when they are working on it.

The goal would be for every person in my team to look at this in the morning to see what they need to work on that day or week.

Is this something you had planned?

Great start for 2 days work though!

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

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Post by kmfrk »

I really dig the simplicity of it. It's the first time I managed to fully understand a presumably minimalistic project management service in under a minute. I feel comfortable sharing this with friends and fellow students without fearing that I have to explain everything.

I would love to be able to embed images and code, though. A service like present.ly stands out better in this regard. At the moment, I don't know how well I would use it in a CS study group without at least a tag.

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

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Post by akonan »

kmfrk wrote: post #76

I really dig the simplicity of it. It's the first time I managed to fully understand a presumably minimalistic project management service in under a minute. I feel comfortable sharing this with friends and fellow students without fearing that I have to explain everything. I would love to be able to embed images and code, though. A service like present.ly stands out better in this regard. At the moment, I don't know h…

Embedding and especially code formatting are excellent ideas! Thanks for pointing those out! I'll push them forward myself

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

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Post by akonan »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #73

This is great - we've been looking for a scheduling app to replace an Excel sheet that we've been using, and this is close to what I had in my head. One thing we'd happily pay for would be the ability to have finer grained resourcing. So instead of just saying who is working on what project, say precisely when they are working on it. The goal would be for every person in my team to look at this in the morning to see…

Thanks for the feedback! I'm not sure how fine grained it'll be, but I promise we'll think hard how to do resourcing "properly".

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

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Post by akonan »

gridspy wrote: post #60

I also loved the demo. I particularly liked the fresh database every time. I suggest that you run a background process that always ensures you have say 5 demo databases 'ready to go' so you can dish them out with no delay when a user clicks on the evaluate link. The speed of that first click really is essential. Also, you could come up with some clever hacks to share the caching for the default dashboards. Until a us…

Excellent points! We didn't have that much time to do the demo data creation so we're going to do it on background when we get back our code ownership from Rails Rumble :)

Also we didn't have time to do any caching, but it's a good way to learn the bottle necks :D

Thanks for the great feedback! Much appreciated!

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