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Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app

by softwareman on 2/2/15, 7:39 PM with 7 comments

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.

  • by jakejake on 2/2/15, 7:55 PM

    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.

  • by robmarkg on 2/2/15, 9:59 PM

    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

  • by fiatjaf on 2/2/15, 11:50 PM

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

  • by softwareman on 2/2/15, 7:39 PM