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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 frr149 »

Udo wrote: post #97
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…

I disagree about the branding. It's simple, it's awesome, it's a somewhat of a hacker cliche (in a post-Why The Lucky Stiff world). If anyone is "offended" by this, those are probably not the kind of religious nutjobs you want hanging around on your site anyway. People, stop it with the appeasement and stand for something! Disclaimer: on a moral level, I can totally understand why you don't eat mammals. That's an awe…

Couldn't say it better myself: http://xkcd.com/137/

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

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Post by jasonlotito »

enra wrote: post #95

I'm the designer for this app, it's great the people find it interesting and pleasing. I try write some more detailed post about the process but here are few pointers: * We've been talking about this kind of project portfolio / dashboard app for our company quite a while. * I worked on the concept and the first sketches to my notebook like week before while attending some rather boring keynote presentation. Took phot…

I just wanted to say thanks. It seems like you tested the app out on the iPad. If you didn't, it sure seemed like it. I first visited the app on mine, and was happy to see it fit like a native app. Highly encouraging. Good work.

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

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Post by akonan »

jasonlotito wrote: post #112
enra wrote: post #95

I'm the designer for this app, it's great the people find it interesting and pleasing. I try write some more detailed post about the process but here are few pointers: * We've been talking about this kind of project portfolio / dashboard app for our company quite a while. * I worked on the concept and the first sketches to my notebook like week before while attending some rather boring keynote presentation. Took phot…

I just wanted to say thanks. It seems like you tested the app out on the iPad. If you didn't, it sure seemed like it. I first visited the app on mine, and was happy to see it fit like a native app. Highly encouraging. Good work.

Thank you! We didn't have time to actually test it on iPad, but we were happy to see it somewhat working on it :)

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

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Post by akonan »

esonica wrote: post #110

Just testing it out on Android, everything I tried seemed to work perfectly. Great design and CSS work :) Perhaps some sorting & filtering options on the dashboard? An 'overdue, current and complete tabs?

Thank you for your comments and feedback! We're glad that it works on Android too :) Didn't really have time to test it on it.

Yes there needs to be some kind of sorting/filtering if you many projects.

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

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Post by slantyyz »

bdclimber14 wrote: post #70

Yet 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…

I just find it fascinating that there are SO many project management services, but none work for our team.

That's why there are so many. I bet that is what each developer was thinking when they came up with their product.

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

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Post by nagrom »

akonan wrote: post #107
nagrom wrote: post #96

Lovely app - very pretty. As someone who writes only mathematical code, I cannot imagine the effort I would have to put in to get something so shiny! I started with a few projects and I have a couple of feature requests: show the latest status update in the project dashboard and maybe consider an RSS feed for each project? I also couldn't figure out what the little person silhouette at the bottom of each project in t…

Thank you! We've have thought about RSS feeds, but we pretty much run out of time with that :) Little person silhouette is just a marker. We'll have person filters for projects at some point. Also if you see "-" next to the silhouette there are no people in the project (you can add them by opening the project and clicking "Edit").

Using ff 3.6.10 on a mac, I always get the (-) marker next to the silhouette without any names associated there. However, there are people attached to the project when I click on the project itself...that's why I was confused - I expected to see the people, but didn't!

I guess that'll get ironed out in testing.

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

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Post by bdclimber14 »

slantyyz wrote: post #115
bdclimber14 wrote: post #70

Yet 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…

I just find it fascinating that there are SO many project management services, but none work for our team. That's why there are so many. I bet that is what each developer was thinking when they came up with their product.

Completely agree, but we aren't about to develop our own. I just find it interesting that there isn't a solution to fits even most people's needs.
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