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Ask HN: For remote company, what tools do you use to manage teams and projects?

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Re: Ask HN: For remote company, what tools do you use to manage teams and projects?

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Post by jperras » 

  * IM: we use IRC. Yes, we know it's old. But we can and do run our own IRC server.
  * Video: Zoom
  * Source control: Github + github issues/pull requests
  * Project management: Github
  * Email: they're all kind of the same, as long as you can manage an org (all *@example.com addresses), it's good.
  * Time tracking: custom OS X menubar application
  * Fun stuff: some native apps/bots/etc. for sharing jokes/memes/screenshots/reaction gifs that we wrote to help build more a sense of camaraderie since we all live so far apart and in vastly different timezones.
We've been doing this for ~7 years now, so we're probably doing a few things right :)

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Re: Ask HN: For remote company, what tools do you use to manage teams and projects?

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Post by slipwalker »

jperras wrote: post #7

* IM: we use IRC. Yes, we know it's old. But we can and do run our own IRC server. * Video: Zoom * Source control: Github + github issues/pull requests * Project management: Github * Email: they're all kind of the same, as long as you can manage an org (all *@example.com addresses), it's good. * Time tracking: custom OS X menubar application * Fun stuff: some native apps/bots/etc. for sharing jokes/memes/screenshots/…

i would love to know more about this "custom OS X menubar application". Is it on github ?

Re: Ask HN: For remote company, what tools do you use to manage teams and projects?

#9

Post by jperras »

slipwalker wrote: post #8
jperras wrote: post #7

* IM: we use IRC. Yes, we know it's old. But we can and do run our own IRC server. * Video: Zoom * Source control: Github + github issues/pull requests * Project management: Github * Email: they're all kind of the same, as long as you can manage an org (all *@example.com addresses), it's good. * Time tracking: custom OS X menubar application * Fun stuff: some native apps/bots/etc. for sharing jokes/memes/screenshots/…

i would love to know more about this "custom OS X menubar application". Is it on github ?

It is not - we develop a lot of our own internal tools that better suit our workflows and varied tasks, since we don't fit a traditional mold of "agency" or "startup".

In reality it's just a little window that pops up at a time you can set and has some smart defaults, and makes the resulting compiled data available at another internal web application for further analysis.

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