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Any good alternatives to basecamp for a startup/side project?

We've been using basecamp for the project we're working on, and of course we're bumping up against the limits of the free plan.

I was thinking about upgrading to the basic plan, but just found out it is now $24 a month (I remember it being $10), which is something we can clearly not afford at this stage.

This isn't a rant against 37Signals or anything like that (though I think they should have more options to cover folks like us). I just want to know what hn'ers out there are using to project manage their startups.

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I'm not a basecamp user, but if $24/mo is make-or-break, I'm not sure how much you believe in the startup.

I'm not saying you must blindly buy crap or else you don't believe, but if Basecamp is working for you, I'd pay the money instead of burning time on finding a substitute. (Said differently: what is your time worth to investigate and to port your data over the new system and/or to live with the losses while you have two systems of record?)

Interestingly, His name is "trustfundbaby."

However, it should be noted that he may be from another country where $24/month is extremely expensive.

> Interestingly, His name is "trustfundbaby."

Thats the joke. Get it?

> I'm not a basecamp user, but if $24/mo is make-or-break, I'm not sure how much you believe in the startup.

Many people believed in their startup and they still failed spectacularly ... so belief doesn't mean anything to me.

I like data, facts ... you know ... that sort of thing. So we're proceeding cautiously spending as little as we can till we see an opening, then we'll run like the wind.

Basecamp is nice, but its simply not worth $24/mo to us. For the money I'd spend on that in a year, I could get a html person to convert our designs into html/css so I don't have to do it ... thats worth more to me at this point.

Also, The plans go from free (0 projects) to Basic (15) ... surely there is a middle ground (4 ... 8 projects) there that is being missed ... not that they care, but I don't see why they'd pass up that revenue.

On the other hand, if you couldn't find a way to spend $288 during your company's first year that would impact it more positively than basecamp, I'm not sure you're spending your money well.

A few alternatives:

https://teambox.com/ http://goplanapp.com/ http://www.assembla.com/ http://www.codebasehq.com/

I love basecamp and signed up for teambox for the document sharing, but haven't really used it yet. What do people think about it?

Have you tried google docs?

We seem to doing okay using google docs + remember the milk.

Here is an open source option: http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/ works great for my company`s project management.

Your profile says that you know Ruby on Rails, so I'd recommend just installing Redmine on a spare or dev server.

Thank you ... I forgot about that.

Have a look at clockingit.com : project management, collaboration, time tracking..

There are a lot of solutions. I like Manymoon and Zoho Projects. If you use Google Apps, you can purchase both of them on the market and integrate.

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