Moving from Basecamp to ActiveCollab

http://allinthehead.com/retro/347/moving-from-basecamp-to-activecollab

by blasdel • 17 years ago

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jmount• 17 years ago

Congrats on finding a way to move off Basecamp. Despite the 37 Signals halo- Basecamp was, in my opinion, a pretty crummy user experience from the start.

antidaily• 17 years ago

Clearly you haven't tried out ActiveCollab.

bfung• 17 years ago

What is bad about the user experience with ActiveCollab?

sree_nair• 17 years ago

Can you give some details as to what you found Crummy in the User Experience?. Just curious.

hypermatt• 17 years ago

I have to admit Basecamp is really underfeatured, no matter how they want to sell it. But the cost having my own hardware installing and managing it, even if its just 1-2 hours of my time is more expense then a year of Basecamp or one its competitors as a hosted. service.

drewmclellan2• 17 years ago

I absolutely understand the principal there, but the reality is that it took me less than 30 minutes to be fully up and running with aC, using hardware that was already online running our subversion server. A light bit of tinkering for a Sunday evening - I don't anticipate any further ongoing investment in maintaining it. It's just PHP, so it should run and run.

That said, this wasn't directly a cost-saving exercise for us. That's just a nice by-product.

hasanove• 17 years ago

Yeah, only 30 mins. And just pray that you wouldn't need backup, that you did not set up. Or that nobody breaks in through hole that you did not patch in php, web server and whatever else you had to install.

Self-hosted solutions requires maintenance even if you don't anticipate it. It's not "just PHP". It feels like a zero cost (you have got the spare capacity server after all), but only until you hit a problem.

diN0bot• 17 years ago

pivotal tracker is the best.

pivotal tracker site: http://pivotaltracker.com

my own blog post on initial reaction to using pivotal tracker: http://proudly.procrasdonate.com/project-management-and-moti...

a follow-up post: http://proudly.procrasdonate.com/retrospective/

ams6110• 17 years ago

Interesting little aside in this post, where he talks about hitting a license threshold on the number of projects and this triggering an evaluation of whether they really like Basecamp enough to pay more for it. I'm wondering if this would have happened if the pricing model was a much smaller increase per project. If adding a project is just a small additional cost there is no "threshold" you hit where you have to jump to a noticeably more expensive license.

officemedium• 16 years ago

Business Pundits "Top 10 Biz Collaboration Web Tools"

http://www.businesspundit.com/the-10-best-collaborative-web-...

Moving from Basecamp to ActiveCollab

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