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Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by [deleted] »

meh01 wrote: post #119
alanmeaney wrote: post #63

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Thanks for the feedback. We're really focused on facilitating teamwork. It's normally something intangible and we're trying to make it visible which will hopefully in turn make it contagious. I will take a look into how a one-off fee model would work.

Please don't listen to the idiots telling you to charge a one-off fee for SaaS. You're not 37signals and unless you have a couple of million burning a hole in your pocket, you should be charging reasonable subscription fees.

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Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by alanmeaney »

meh01 wrote: post #119
alanmeaney wrote: post #63

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Thanks for the feedback. We're really focused on facilitating teamwork. It's normally something intangible and we're trying to make it visible which will hopefully in turn make it contagious. I will take a look into how a one-off fee model would work.

Please don't listen to the idiots telling you to charge a one-off fee for SaaS. You're not 37signals and unless you have a couple of million burning a hole in your pocket, you should be charging reasonable subscription fees.

You'll notice from my profile that I'm from Ireland.

We ain't exactly flush at the moment ;)

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by skrish »

unreal37 wrote: post #87
brads84 wrote: post #48

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100% Agree. Asana is awesome.

Based on just this thread, I'm signing up for a trial account.

All those keyboard short cuts & everything is cool. We have tried so many of them but it is hard to find one which every member of your team like something.

It really is impressive.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by skrish »

rushabh wrote: post #70

After seeing so many apps / websites on HN use Proxima Nova and rounded avatars immediately after the new Basecamp was released, its interesting to see this anti 37signals wave on HN. I think the HN crowd has lost its objectivity in evaluating 37signals and its become something like an Apple. One-time forever pricing is a very innovative concept for a web based SAAS application. I bet we will start seeing more of thi…

Isn't one time pricing, a road lot of business have gone to get some cash upfront & went back on their word?

We need to remember, in SaaS it is the "service" that you pay for not just the "software".

It is okay to be skeptical when someone says, I will support you forever when there is an ongoing cost somewhere.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by hamidpalo »

bookwormAT wrote: post #73
aviswanathan wrote: post #34

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.

Unfortunately the mobile version is very poor on Android and does not at all scale to larger screen sizes. I'm sure they are working on this but so far Trello is not very fun to use on the platform.

We are -- new version of Trello for Android is coming out very soon.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by praxeologist »

alanmeaney wrote: post #116
praxeologist wrote: post #102

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The 30 person limit "per project" got me excited until I looked at pricing and that just seems like the "team size" of "workspace members". I was thinking to try using Asana to collect feedback from beta testers (of real world items). Across several projects, this would total more than 30, but the 30 limit per type of thing being tested would be fine. Is this going to work for me or any other suggestions? I haven't d…

We don't limit team members. If you sign up before the end of our Beta you'll also be able to create unlimited teams. Our Team chat feature would be useful for collecting and responding to team feedback across multiple projects. http://taskmessenger.com Feel free to mail me directly if you've any questions: alan@taskmessenger.com @AlanMeaney on twitter

I tried sending an invite to another email address to join a team and the Register Page URL in the email was simply "http://login/register

Chat is nice, but there are lots of ways to do that and I need something where I can make sure people are submitting feedback, otherwise I don't want to give them the discounted goods in exchange for the feedback.

I think I realized what will work.. some sort of e-learning software. I would basically just pass/fail each item tested on whether an "exam" was submitted, but I do have some quality requirements for feedback. Having used Moodle before a bit, I think you can give more or less points for multiple choice answers. I wouldn't care about the aggregate of these but maybe could use that too.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by phylosopher »

napoleond wrote: post #37

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…

Take a look at www.minggler.com, a service myself and two others started last year. We aim to automate who and when to reach out to someone. Haven't quite perfected the formula. Would love your feedback.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by FireBeyond »

benatkin wrote: post #117
weaksauce wrote: post #110

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There is a feedback link at the bottom of the page that you might consider telling them about your issues. help them make it better for all of us.

Sorry but if they cared about my workflow these issues would already be fixed.

With what, their powers of telekinesis?

I'm sure your workflows aren't identical to mine. Why would it be to theirs?

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by alanmeaney »

praxeologist wrote: post #126
alanmeaney wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't limit team members. If you sign up before the end of our Beta you'll also be able to create unlimited teams. Our Team chat feature would be useful for collecting and responding to team feedback across multiple projects. http://taskmessenger.com Feel free to mail me directly if you've any questions: alan@taskmessenger.com @AlanMeaney on twitter

I tried sending an invite to another email address to join a team and the Register Page URL in the email was simply " http://login/register Chat is nice, but there are lots of ways to do that and I need something where I can make sure people are submitting feedback, otherwise I don't want to give them the discounted goods in exchange for the feedback. I think I realized what will work.. some sort of e-learning softwa…

Thanks for the catch on the register link. That's been fixed and will be released shortly.

Best of luck with finding something suitable.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by AVTizzle »

jlmendezbonini wrote: post #84
AVTizzle wrote: post #66

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I feel you. I ended up going with Salesforce's $5/mo contact manager edition and just stripping all the tabs and modules on the contact pages so it's super-simplified. Now all my personal contacts are managed in Salesforce which is super robust and powerful. I love sorting them by "Last Activity" to see who I haven't spoken with in a while and working my way through the list that way. (I was able to negotiate a disco…

Can you add pictures as part of the description of the person? Not a profile picture of the person but photos that could be part of what you want to remember from the interaction with that person.

Interesting, no unftly not that I know of. Maybe if you went with one of the more advanced packages. The Contact Manager edition is pretty limited.

You can pull profile photos of theirs from Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook though. But obviously those images aren't yours to choose.

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