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Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:33 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #25

I 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…

+1 for Asana for actually including a text transcript with screenshots as an alternative to the introduction video. I wish more companies were doing that.

Re: Basecamp Personal

#32

Post by reidrac » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #18

nopeynoper wrote: post #9

Basecamp: the app any web developer should be able to create themselves in a week or two...

Let's hack it! make one open source.

I've never used Basecamp, but... Teambox? Last version seems SaaS only, but previous ones are OSS:

http://teambox.com/ https://github.com/teambox/teambox

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by marknutter » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

The project I've been working on, http://kona.com, has had the idea of personal/work projects baked in from the beginning, and it's free. Worth checking out.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by aviswanathan » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

Trello is absolutely incredible (and they have a really receptive development team). I've used them for development, marketing, HR, etc and have yet to be disappointed. Mobile version is also kickass.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by euros » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

alanmeaney wrote: post #26

Once 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. www.taskmessenger.com :: We make teamwork visible :: @taskmessenger

Charging a one-off fee, per project, is a great idea.

And if I was you, I would much rather make enough money to pay the bills, than play the freemium lottery.

And Taskmessenger is all about adding value to a project - something that you should be proud to charge for.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by sthkr » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

Podio.com is great too! You just need to configure it properly and it can become quite powerful! and best of all it's even free!

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by napoleond » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

I want Highrise Personal. There are so many CRMs for every different size of business, but I want a contact list where I can fill in information about people as I go (ie. start with "big guy with red hair at Mark's Dec. 17 party, discussed quantum tunnelling" and then add in his name and contact info if/when I learn it) and add arbitrary notes about everyone. I know I could just use a regular CRM but those always get hung up on leads/accounts/etc. I know I could use something like Evernote (or Workflowy, which I love and sort of use for this currently) but that's not really the right tool for the job.

Every time I mention this someone tells me it already exists; every time the thing they point me to is full of useless social integrations and other shit. Does anyone know of a "personal CRM" that doesn't suck?

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by blissofbeing » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:49 PM UTC

$25 is too much for something you can get for free with asana or trello. I guess you pay for the brand more than anything else, like the apple tax.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by scottmagdalein » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

This looks like a rebirth of Backpack to me, which is great because I sorely miss Backpack.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by technoslut » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #30

Great, 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.

>It's sad that all new great products stop as web-apps and never go further.

There are other apps for personal use or collaboration such as Wunderlist, Omnifocus (Mac, not PC) and Any.Do (only available natively for iPhone and Android.)