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Duet — A self-hosted alternative to Trello
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Evan Sims
This looks super nice! A mobile app would make this perfect for me.
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@evansims I'm working on mobile apps right now :) If you're interested, please sign up for the newsletter so you can get an announcement when they are released.
This is the third major rewrite of this app and looks to be a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp and Freshbooks.
At a fraction of the cost!
This looks great. It reminds me slightly of the Flow app by Metalab, which I loved. I can't find any info regarding the source code itself. What tech makes up the stack? How do you facilitate updates? I love the fact that it's self hosted as it means I can add features myself. I notice there is no way to tag/categorize tasks. Is this deliberate, or just a lower priority feature? How do you enforce the licenses? I see price varies based on # of users. Do you distribute different source based on that selection?
@andyjbas Flow was definitely one of my sources of inspiration. I love it's simplicity.
The app is PHP and Javascript. Updates are manual at the moment, but they are simple and should take no more time than the actual install (which takes 5-10 minutes).
Tagging will make it's way into the app eventually, but I had a bunch of more pressing features I needed to release first (i.e. recurring invoicing was a big one that people kept asking for). But even though there's no tagging, there's still categorization, which applies to both the kanban and the list views.
Yes, licenses are enforced exactly the way you describe :)
@sasha_radoslavov I'm working on native mobile apps right now. So soon it will be a lot better :)
@saleemelamin_ @sasha_radoslavov I think it's a great idea too! But the responsive layout was bad, even on desktop
All in all looks really nice.
One thing I'd say is that the price is advertised as a one-time cost of $59, but self hosted solutions require hosting as well which would be extra. A little disingenuous to directly compare for example, Basecamp's monthly cost of $29 totalling $348 to your $59 for Duet.
@dylanjnz Most users already have a server and most install on their existing server, so there's actually no extra cost :) I designed it specifically so that it would work on even the most basic shared server so even if you're using the $3/month plan from siteground, you can use Duet.
@saleemelamin_ Thanks for answering :)
Fair enough, just thought I'd mention it. Maybe making a deal with a hosting company would be a good idea at some point in the future.
Hey everyone. Founder of Duet here. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback about Duet. Always looking for ways to improve :)
Running the team of designers, I've really gone through all the pains and issues of organizing creative process. So I'm always keen to try the tools supporting efficient communication between the customers and the participants of the process such as designers, developers and project managers. I find your tool a good try in this sphere. What is especially attractive for me is its minimalistic design performance which is really applicable in this sort of tools and software. Still, I have a question around the general philosophy you set behind the product. What was the USP you set for it considering that it entered a highly competitive sphere?
This is a great idea... But I think there's just so much it's trying to be it could never have worked. The design, at least from what I've seen in the trail, is far less intuitive & well designed then it's competition. It's very messy & tries to pull lots of great things - without doing them well.
Having to tweak all that, get a host etc. Seems like a lot more work then a productivty app should take. It would be great if it came out of the box good & then you can change things around.