HN: I just started my own company, any recommended task management software?

4 points·jlongster··9 comments

Hey guys,

I just started my own company, and I'm curious to know what you guys would recommend for project/task management software. I'd like for it to be simple and elegant, and actually work. I've used basecamp and bugzilla before; I simply don't like basecamp for many reasons, and bugzilla is awesome but too complicated and ugly.

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If you're familiar with Emacs you can use Org-mode. There's actually a pretty good video from its creator that shows you the main features:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM

I totally forgot about org-mode. I have a few friends that use it and love it. Maybe I should go ahead and dive into it.

http://www.redmine.org/

Description taken from the website : Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Pivotal Tracker has been getting good reviews.

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

Depends what you're trying to track I suppose but I use Pivotal Tracker for everything I work on (programming-wise) pretty much.

That's the 3rd time I've heard about it today, so I'll look into it. It looks really good.

You could always try Verb. It's pretty good. http://verbapp.com

Trac.

A great suggestion, it's super robust and powerful and has some very cool features for tracking the sorts of issues or work you do, where you end up spending time, etc.

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