Comments on: Reality Check: Basecamp E-mail Integration

By: J Lane

J Lane — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:12:37 +0000

Thanks for the links to wrike folks. I’ve checked it out before, but it’s too focussed on hierarchies, and reporting for me to really use it. Basecamp is everything I need in a project management app, missing the one key piece.

I’ve launched Mailmanagr.com in response to getting a little exposure for this project from the 37signals product blog.

@Olle Jonsson

I think this might be one of those things that’s better offered as a service to folks, rather than an installed application. It would be hard to set up the e-mail server and such for organizations to use it properly. I haven’t decided what I’m doing on “the business side” of this — Might end up being a free/small subscription setup.

By: Olle Jonsson

Olle Jonsson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:05:17 +0000

Hi, I googled for “email integration basecamp”, since I wanted to replace an old unarchived mailing list with something more archivable/integrated.

I’d be interested in checking out your work on emailing a Basecamp instance. What kind of license will you be adding to it? I’m a Ruby, Python, PHP, (insert “other” here) guy, so I might be interested in building atop your previous work, the license permitting.

By: Julia Sifers

Julia Sifers — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:15:36 +0000

I would love to hear how this works out for you. My team and I have been toying with similar concepts.

By: T.J.

T.J. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:55:11 +0000

Hi there. Yes, email and basecamp is, I think, one of the only ways to truly centralize project communications, tasks, and feedback for 90% of clients. Email is something everyone can use.

Anyhow, for features I’d recommend looking at http://www.wrike.com, who’ve been at email PM for some time. It’s a clunky interface with windows-like hierarchical organization, but it does have some good ideas.

Basically you only email one address: wrike@wrike.com. Then you may specify via tokens contained in brackets certain things like which project the task should be put in, the due date, and other things. That route seems more feasible than creating an email address for each project, as it also allows future tokens to be added.

You can make some good money with this plug-in, amigo. Keep up the good work.