What is the best project management application for start-ups? • Hacker News Board

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by mello1 » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 10:11 PM UTC

Daptiv is a SaaS provider with great project management and built in collaboration features. Firefox or IE, nothing to install. Customers in many industries including software dev and gaming. www.daptiv.com

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by markessien » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 10:21 PM UTC

jsdalton wrote: post #9

Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com/ ) is great.

The text on the lighthouse site is irritatingly Web 2.0ish.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by markessien » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 10:22 PM UTC

gleb wrote: post #8

I am fan of Acunote http://acunote.com Not surprising since that is my startup :-) It's tailor-made for a software startup, includes SVN integration and is free for <= 5 users.

Yikes, be very careful with the audio on screencasts. It sounds highly unprofessional to have smacking sounds on audio - and additionally, it should not auto-start.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by mattculbreth » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 10:34 PM UTC

Rally at http://rallydev.com. There's a free version.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by mhp » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

FogBugz. It's free for startups. But I'm the president of Fog Creek so maybe I'm biased ;)

http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/StudentAndStartup.html

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by andrewljohnson » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 10:45 PM UTC

makecheck wrote: post #2

I'd recommend Trac (trac.edgewall.org). It's pretty configurable with basic milestone tracking and a wiki (and people have written addons, etc.). It also integrates with Subversion.

I also recommend TRAC. And I recommend my ISP too - WebFaction - which gives you integrated SVN/TRAC out of the box, along with any database or programming language you need. A small slice costs $9.50/month.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by walesmd » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 11:05 PM UTC

I have a found using Beanstalk and Basecamp together to be absolutely awesome. It gives us the ability to use todos/milestones as well as establish polices (coding standards, design docs, etc) on Whiteboards.

The best part - and what gets the most use - is Messaging/comments. The ability to post comments directly related to a commit has become insanely powerful for our 2-man crew.

Best of all, you can do it all for free.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by symesc » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 11:09 PM UTC

eo3x0 wrote: post #6

Pivotal tracker has been mentioned here on HN before. Just throwing that out there as a possibility.

We use Pivotal Tracker to manage our agile development at an airline. We love the open nature of the tool, in that it only presents the bare bones of what you'll need and then you can make it work in any way you want. We also like the dynamic nature of the real-time updates. I can watch my browser window update to reflect the work in process.

The tool has been extremely robust. They notify us well in advance of outages, both on their site and via twitter.

The most important item for gaining acceptance of the tool is that we can export our work from the tool into .csv so we can continue to work if Pivotal goes offline.

Highly recommended.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by cvg » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 11:58 PM UTC

We use unfuddle, http://www.unfuddle.com . Kind of like Basecamp, but a bit more dev focused. Integrates well with Subversion.

Re: What is the best project management application for start-ups?

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Post by ilanos » Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 11:59 PM UTC

hi there! We've been using Producteev.com for the past 2 weeks, and it is simply amazing for Team Task Management... A pure jewel. If you request a code on producteev.com, you get a token within the hour You might want to try them out, I discovered them through this post on TC : http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/producteev-launches-gro...