Hello World
One of my favorite SpongeBob episodes is Procrastination (sorry just a mediocre link),
where SpongeBob has writer’s block. He stays up all night putting off writing a short essay for Mrs. Puff, with the pressure building
the more he procrastinates, even going so far as to have Dali-esque nightmare of sleeping past his deadline.
(SPOILER: Yes he finishes his essay on time, but Mrs. Puff had cancelled the essay and didn’t tell SpongeBob.)
I’ll be honest and say I feel the same way trying to write my first blog entry. Taking the plunge anyway…
I promise you’ll get:
- Fresh content every working day from me or Mike.
- A little humor in all my posts.
- Something educational in all my posts.
Mike and I have developed a really easy to use hosted project management application.
We’re going to open it to the public real soon now — the private beta is just about over. We got some good feedback (thanks people!),
fixed a bunch of bugs and kept adding features.
Yes, the project management application space is crowded. However, crowded does not necessarily mean all niches have been filled.
You have the low end covered by such sites as Basecamp, which aim for short and small
projects such as web design. If you have a MS project plan with a thousand tasks, they’re not going to be helpful to you. And on the
high end, you have such “enterprise solutions” as Project.Net and eProject.
And when they say enterprise, they mean: no price quotes online (you have to negotiate, where the bigger the company the bigger the discount),
“on demand” means you wait for them to get back to you, and the feature set is described in hazy marketing literature.
But please understand, each company I just described has their own niche where their customers like how they operate.
Our product is a bit unique, we think that we have a good blend of the low-end friendliness and ease-of-use that people want, and the high-end
functionality that people need. We tried to design our application so that little or no training is needed to use it. We have two killer pieces
of functionality that I’ll explain more in a later post:
- Two way integration with MS Office (including MS Project).
- Easy-to-use traceability.