Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8986355

by softwareman • 11 years ago

5 7 11 years ago

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GOLO: http://getgolo.com

To be honest, its a personal itch project.

Reasoning behind the project is that I needed something extremely simple to do project management for very small teams (3-6).

Golo has only 2 entities in a project: task-name & priority (0-1000). Use priority number to group tasks together and order them too.

There is no concept of logins. An access link is emailed to you every time you request it including sign ups. The app has persistent sessions. Its not super secure by any standards and hence DO NOT put sensitive data in there. Its only for management purposes.

I know its not even Show-HN quality yet but I would love to get as much feedback as possible while I am building it rather than later. So thank you guys in advance for checking it out.

softwareman4• 11 years ago

http://getgolo.com

jakejake• 11 years ago

Nice work, clean looking. There is something to be said for a simple but useful app.

I were going to ask for one more field, I'd like to see a field for the task owner (could just be simple text) at which point I think it would definitely work for simple project management.

Of course a status field, notes and comments would make it a more complete system, but I think certain types of projects can get away without those things.

softwareman4• 11 years ago

Thanks a lot Jake.

Actually thats the idea behind it. So, I am planning to support all these functionalities which you mentioned. In fact these features will be off by default. You can enable it on need basis per project. But this is still in development.

Do not forget to use it on your next simple project and give me feedback. Just reply to the registration email.

robmarkg• 11 years ago

I like it - not sure why "priority' is not used more - it is such a useful construct. Instead of re-purposing it though, maybe add "tags' and still keep it super lean

softwareman4• 11 years ago

I agree. I thought of tags but still went with priority because an open ended priority serves two purposes: high level ordering as well as low level ordering.

What I mean is that you can separate out very different tasks by giving them far apart priorities and order and group sub-tasks/related-tasks by giving them priorities closer by. Let me know what you think.

Or if you have a way in mind about tags, would love to hear your thoughts.

fiatjaf• 11 years ago

This is a simple tool, but I see that it can be useful. However, why not use other tools already built? Why not Trello?

softwareman4• 11 years ago

I agree. Trello is closest to what I needed. I do not have a strong reason to not use Trello. I come from a background of using excel sheets for this task and needed something in flatter structure. Trello seems more visual than I need it to be.

I will understand if you didn't find my logic very convincing :).

Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app

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