ProjectThingy: Innovation in Collaboration
We've written quite a lot about project management and collaboration tools in the past but recently we came across a tool that takes the collaboration process to the next level. ProjectThingy is project management software that can be seamlessly integrated into your site giving your team and clients a familiar project environment and full collaboration capabilities.
While we love Basecamp and use it daily here at ReadWriteWeb, the idea of embedding this type of software into a page using only a few lines of code is appealing. Easy to use, you just point to the domain you want it to live on, create a username, password and voila - ProjectThingy spits out the code for you to cut and paste to your site.
Feature overview:
Projects
- Name and mission statement
- Status: none, in progress, problem, complete
- Due date
- Milestones with dates and status indicators
- Project members from your user pool
Work items
- Discussion threads with assignments
- Limited client access
- Work items
- Name and description
- Status: none, in progress, problem, complete
- Assign to any project member
- Attach links and files (up to 1GB per file)
- Add link and file revisions
- Clients only see latest revision when assigned
Messages
- Project and work item message threads
- Optionally assign to any project member with status: none, in progress, problem, complete
- Clients only see messages when assigned
User pool
- Unlimited number of users
- User permissions: no access, client, team, administrator
Pricing
There are four levels of pricing and you can cancel your subscription at any time. ProjectThingy will keep your data for six months after you cancel, making it easier for you to return if you change your mind later on.
- Free: 1 Active Project, 50MB Storage
- Small: $19 P/M: 10 Active Projects, 6GB Storage
- Medium: $39 P/M: 30 Active Projects, 20GB Storage
- Large: $139 P/M: Unlimited Projects, 100GB Storage
Using Amazon Web Services for scalability and reliability, ProjectThingy runs on EC2 with a MySQL database with data storage on Elastic Block Storage and files in Simple Storage Service buckets.
The team behind the project Chris and Utka Ritke have created five short videos if you want to learn more or check out their FAQ page.
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A brilliant idea, seems worth checking out. I wonder if basecamp will ever consider implementing this kind of feature in the future?
It's also interesting to see the increasing popularity and number of startups using Amazon Web Services, including ourselves for our collaboration app colaab.
Bob
http://colaab.com
Great stuff thanks for posting it!
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The approach is innovative, but i don't think that the set of features is enough to manage projects effectively and while developing http://www.comindwork.com we found out that very often customers want very specific features, so i believe that customization and integration is the way to go.
@Arturas, right on! There isn't an end to what customers want. Feature creep can kill ya! :)
Cool.. This is real Web 2.0 innovation