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Ask HN: Web Devs: What do you use for project management and billing?
11 points by matthewatcd 3269 days ago
Curious to know what other web design and development teams are using to manage their and projects and bill clients?

Our team charge time at an hourly rate. We only estimate, never quote, so it's important to keep clients updated on where things are sitting and let them interact on tasks when testing and reviewing.

In the end, after trying a few of the popular apps, we decided to build our own. We've been using it and evolving it for 5 years and are just now launching a beta and trying to see if others might be interested

https://tasman.io/

https://vimeo.com/223398703

In my experience, all the features can be met by different apps but I haven't seen anything yet that handles the end-to-end workflow and has a nice user interface for users and end clients

What do you use? for client interaction -> project and budget tracking -> task tracking -> time entries -> billing

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I currently use Billings Pro, but thats just because I haven't had time to replace it yet.

Have/would you consider making it open source (no reason you can't still charge for your hosted version)? I'd love to use something that already exists, but OSS is a must for me for a new tool.

Yes, Open Sourcing it is definitely something we're considering.
Trello for planning boards (free) and Harvest for billing by time (modest fee for several clients). I wish Harvest had a simple way to let clients check timesheets though.
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