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Ask HN: Project management app for a digital agency?
We are a small web design company with remote team of 5 in few time zones. Currently our project management is based on emails and Google Docs. It is slowly turning into nightmare. Keeping track what is going on, time tracking and billing etc. is getting very difficult.
We are looking for a simple software, which will easily let us organize our work - many small projects and few bigger ones per month, including ongoing clients. I also need to be able to extract information such as “how many issues completed and time spent on each for a given project in a given month.”
Suggestions?
Thank you!
- iamben 11y agoHarvest works very well for me as far as time tracking and billing goes (and seeing time spent on what and where). You can connect it to a bunch of other stuff as well (trello for instance). https://www.getharvest.com https://www.getharvest.com
- kull 11y agoI am just testing it and it seem to be not so intuitive, I cannot just go and create an issue to assign it to a team member? I create some event and it starts counting time... strange.
- kull 11y agowhat about teamwork.com ?
- dtawfik1 11y agoGizmo App works really well as a project management solution for digital agencies: https://www.gizmo.cool/ https://www.gizmo.cool/ It has invoicing and billing built in, which really solves a major pain point for most agencies.
- mhoad 11y agoI have a remote team of 3 currently and am using a combination of Basecamp and Todoist. Find it works really well so far.
- atmosx 11y agoI ended up at tectonic's website[1] this morning. We spoke once at #ruby@Freenode. He is a really nice guy. He works at Mavelink[1] which from what I've seen is EXACTLY what you're looking for. On a side-note, huge upgrade from Google docs could be tiddlywiki[3]. This little gem can me moulded into nearly everything. I wouldn't use it for billing and time-tracking of course. But as todo, wiki, docs, notebook, etc. is excellent. If you go with tiddlywiki server-side, make sure you backup and auto-save the data! [1] http://andrewcantino.com/ http://andrewcantino.com/ [2] https://www.mavenlink.com/ https://www.mavenlink.com/ [3] http://tiddlywiki.com/ http://tiddlywiki.com/
- micwo 11y agoA list of project management apps with time tracking feature: http://www.eduhub.io/b/project-management-software/t/time-tracking http://www.eduhub.io/b/project-management-software/t/time-tr...
- j2bax 11y agoOur company which sounds similar to the makeup of you company has been using Teamwork.com for project management along with getharvest.com for time tracking and invoicing for a few years now. Both of the tools are great at what they do. We also use Hipchat for instant communication, project specific group chats etc. although lately the service hasn't been stellar. I think we are going to give Slack a shot instead.
- thecodemonkey 11y agoI can highly recommend https://basecamp.com https://basecamp.com - it just works and you can even invite clients to the projects so you can show transparency. Worked with this in multiple agency settings in the past.