I may be weird, but I'd much rather use trello + properly sorted email than basecamp.
Basecamp Personal
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#22Basecamp: the app any web developer should be able to create themselves in a week or two...
Let's hack it! make one open source.
The guy who created activeCollab first released it as open source → http://web.archive.org/web/20060810011430/http://www.activec...
Then, he realized it could make money and put a $499 price tag on it → https://www.activecollab.com/pricing.html
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#23It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…
I'm not sure if the two products are comparable though, I love Evernote for unstructured content but to me Basecamp has always been more structured.
In particular for keep track of todo lists (along with audit trails of who's done what) and allowing email notification and response of discussions around todo's and documents.
I know you can do some of this to an extent in Evernote (e.g. todo lists) but I'd be interested to hear more about how you use Evernote such that it can be a Basecamp replacement?
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#24Basecamp: the app any web developer should be able to create themselves in a week or two...
I was one of the developers of a product in the same space, consider myself a pretty good programmer, and can assure you you wouldn't build basecamp (our any competing product) in a week or two. There's so much that goes into a product like this, that reading a comment such as yours can even be considered offensive. It is, at the very least, quite naive.
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#25I STRONGLY recommend Asana:
It's like using a smart piece of paper that just gets out of your way and let's you create, assign, toggle, set dates, etc really intuitively.
I'm a freelancer - and for my usage I typically have a Workspace called Freelance Projects. In that workspace I have many projects, each for each freelance gig I land. I then invite my client (YOU CAN INVITE UP TO 30 PEOPLE PER PROJECT FOR FREE HOLY BALLS) and collaborate intuitively from there.
He/she can upload photoshop files, images, text files, edit desriptions and I can comment on them and we go back and forth. Better than email.
I used to procrastinate a lot. It was my achille's heel; but since Asana I enjoy working because there's something deeply psychological in ticking things off and seeing them grayed out.
If you haven't checked it out.
There's also Trello but I kind of dislike it when there are more than 5 items in a list. It gets unwiedly.
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#26Once off pricing is interesting. We're allowing users of our new application to create two teams for free. Deciding on pricing is really tough. Should we follow Asana/Trello and go free for everything or come up with a paid plan?
If any fellow hn'ers get a chance please feel free to stop by and check it out.
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#27Basecamp: the app any web developer should be able to create themselves in a week or two...
I'm hoping this is a perhaps poorly-considered callback to one of HN's most famous comments, which described StackExchange as "simple software... that can be thrown together in a weekend."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501
If this comment is actually serious, please try executing on it and report back on how it goes.
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#28I STRONGLY recommend Asana: http://www.asana.com It's like using a smart piece of paper that just gets out of your way and let's you create, assign, toggle, set dates, etc really intuitively. I'm a freelancer - and for my usage I typically have a Workspace called Freelance Projects. In that workspace I have many projects, each for each freelance gig I land. I then invite my client (YOU CAN INVITE UP TO 30 PEOPLE PER…
Asana is fantastic software. I've been using it for several months now, and the interface is really, really smooth. I like that it feels like an evolving todo list, whereas most apps focus on archival and bug tracking.
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#29Basecamp: the app any web developer should be able to create themselves in a week or two...
How long before this comment shows up on @shit_hn_says?
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#30Great, but unfortunately not for me. I'd prefer something that can be usable off-line. Especially in case of personal projects, I don't want to always have Internet available to be able to work on stuff. There's no real reason for this data to leave my PC.
It's sad that all new great products stop as web-apps and never go further. The best thing I found so far is org-mode + Dropbox combo.