Hey all, this week, we planned to finalize on the perfect project management tool for us.
The whole exercise took us a couple of days. We signed up & tried all the tools one by one. In the end, we believe this time was worth it! Below is the summary of all the options which have most of the features, an indieHacking team requires to kickstart the collaboration. At the bottom of this post, I have revealed which one we decided to go with and why.
(None of the links I have put are affiliate links except Slack, and the reason for Slack is mentioned at the bottom of this post )
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Tasks, Subtasks, Chat, Documents, Comments, Free external users(contract people/interns/freelancers), Budget-friendly, and more than 15 projects allowed.
1. Notion
Notion - The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
2. Asana
Manage your team’s work, projects, & tasks online * Asana
3. Quip:
4. Jira
Jira | Issue & Project Tracking Software | Atlassian
5. Clickup
ClickUp™ | One app to replace them all
6. Basecamp
Replace all over the place with ONE place.
7. TeamWork
Teamwork: Work & Project Management Software
8. NiftyPM
Nifty: Manage Projects, Tasks, and Communications
9. Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams | Group Chat Software | Free Chat for Teams
(Slow and loading bar everywhere, otherwise it would have been my first choice - because of tabs.)
10. AirSend
Something is missing. Not sure why, but somehow I didn't like the interface and the feel. Although features are good - no complaints there!
11. Rock.so
Not good UI - eye candy-ness needs to be improved. Tasks need to be improved in order to be used.
12. nTask
nTask - Free Online Task & Project Management Software for Teams - nTask
Although feature-ful, it somehow didn’t connect to this one when Asana and other tools are there
13. Flow
Flexible Project & Task Management Software for Teams - Flow
All good, not sure what is the issue, something seems missing, maybe the UI is a bit too bold/loud? [m on a monitor]
14. ActiveCollab
Collaborative Project Management Software · ActiveCollab
Free for three users and unlimited clients. It seems a little buggy here and there - not sure If I did something.
15. ORA
Ora - Task management done right!
Only one list is viewable at each time. It feels we will have to do too many clicks to juggle between tasks.
16. Nimbus Notes
Nimbus Note - One place to manage all your information | knowledge base | tasks | projects |, etc.
(Is more notes-oriented than chat. Although good features.)
17. Hive
Manage projects faster & collaborate better | Hive
(very good with most features we need. I could have selected this if pricing had been lower.)
18. ProofHub
ProofHub: All-in-One Project Planning Software | No Per User Fee
Beautiful pricing and features for the small team. We almost decided on this one. But we are missing a good sidebar with quickly switchable projects, And looks can be improved (i.e., eye candy)
What we chose
We went through all the options and finally decided on Slack + Notion. We realised there is no silver bullet and to get best of both world, we will need to keep these both open all times.
Slack is best for communication, it has great looks and is eye candy that we were looking for. And it’s webhooks which we’ll be needing once our product grows.
Notion is great for document management. And it has a desktop app. Feels pretty fast and snappy. And the sidebar is great. I like the bookmark feature where you can expand the details. I use this feature a lot.
Try Slack today with our referral link: https://slack.com/intl/en-in/r/0257ja8mmy-025e9nn7mk
We both will receive 100USD credits inside Slack to begin with, which is rare to get in Slack these days.
Great, I prefer Notion here
Wow, such a great post. Very well written, honest and transparent.
We also use Slack here. Cheers!
Thanks
Awesome post! Very insightful
For those who voted <no, but still will not change>. I wonder why you are not happy with your pm tool and you are not willing to change it ?
Nice post
Very rare to find so many tools with reviews in one place; that too by someone using them professionally . Thanks for sharing!
Awesome list. Bookmarking right-away!
Thanks Emma