starphp Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Hi Can you suggest some good FREE web based project management packages? My clients wish to post project and its requirements in a managed system than to send mails. Any suggestions would be great Thanks Team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ober Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I've looked at a lot of them and they don't really fit my "freelancer" style. I basically want a copy of freshbooks.com that is free and allows the client to provide a "to do" list with dates and details, among a few other features. So I'm building my own. It's not even close to ready, but I'll let you all know about it when I'm done. Maybe you guys can be my beta users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Why not just use on of the existing products that already exist and work fine? If you are doing any serious work then having to pay something like $25-50/mo shouldn't be a major issue. That's like a couple of hours' work. You have to take into consideration the time you will need to build and maintain your own project management solution as well. If you charge $25/hr, which isn't even in the high end, and have to pay $50/mo then it's the same as maintaining your system 2h/mo. That doesn't even account for the initial overhead of having to use a lot of hours of building it in the first place. These are hours you don't get paid for, and hours you could have spent on working for a client. Sometimes the benefits of rolling your own doesn't outweigh the cost of having to purchase it from somebody else. Of course if there are none of the existing solutions you like, then you'll have to, but otherwise I think it would be overkill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I thought that originally as well. I looked for months for something that I liked. I use freshbooks.com to do the financial side of things right now and I'm using the free account. Even if I bumped up to the next level ($14/mo), I'm still not getting all the features that I want. I don't like the look and feel of the other existing products because they all fall into one of the following categories: 1) Overly complicated for what I need and I don't want to confuse my clients. 2) Missing a feature that I think is crucial to my normal workflow. Besides, if I can make a tool that people would use, I could eventually charge a minimal fee for it for other developers and that money I lost making it is nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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