Not to take anything away from the launch of this offering, but I tend to find that project management for freelance work and any self managed project (whether as a solo dev or within a small group) that is intended to generate income requires a little more than just managing tasks/activities. Managing costs, availability, etc tend to be important as well.
For freelance and small contracting work, and then lately for my own side projects and such, I've been running a self hosted instance of OpenProject. It has 2 features that I find are extremely valuable:
1. resource and materials costs
2. Gantt charts
Having costing available is extremely useful for paid gigs: not only for budgeting purposes, but also indirectly in keeping scope creep to a minimum (or alternatively, being able to indicate how much the additional effort is actually going to cost based on task estimates, and having informed conversations with the client if needed).
And gantt charts seem to not be used as much these days, but its really helpful in getting a quick overview of how changes to a projects tasks (new tasks added, delays,
resource planning constraints, etc) affect the project timeline.
For the most part, I tend to find that increasingly, "project management" tools are more actually "task management" tools. Which have their uses. But for project management, there's more to a project than just its tasks.
You’re absolutely right—EnkiTask isn’t a full project management tool, it's more of a Task Management tool, and in the first version of the landing page, I positioned it that way. However, some friends in marketing suggested that if EnkiTask evolves into a more comprehensive project management system in the future, it would be tough and costly to change the positioning later. So, I decided to position it as a project management tool from the start, even though I know it’s not there yet.
Regarding Gantt charts and budgeting, I intentionally chose not to integrate those features because I wanted to keep things simple and affordable. There are already plenty of great tools for managing budgets and finances. Instead of building those features from scratch, I’d rather focus on creating a lot of integrations with existing tools to provide users with flexibility. That said, I’m planning to launch a Feature Suggestion page soon where users can propose and vote on features they’d like to see added. If those features gain enough support, we’ll definitely consider adding them! :)
For freelance and small contracting work, and then lately for my own side projects and such, I've been running a self hosted instance of OpenProject. It has 2 features that I find are extremely valuable: 1. resource and materials costs 2. Gantt charts
Having costing available is extremely useful for paid gigs: not only for budgeting purposes, but also indirectly in keeping scope creep to a minimum (or alternatively, being able to indicate how much the additional effort is actually going to cost based on task estimates, and having informed conversations with the client if needed).
And gantt charts seem to not be used as much these days, but its really helpful in getting a quick overview of how changes to a projects tasks (new tasks added, delays, resource planning constraints, etc) affect the project timeline.
For the most part, I tend to find that increasingly, "project management" tools are more actually "task management" tools. Which have their uses. But for project management, there's more to a project than just its tasks.