115 points | by aerugo_1 week ago
I wish more things are released like that.
Also your tool might be very useful because there isn't a good Gantt tool that is lightweight anymore, i search for one recently and my only solution in the end was to use an excel template...
My 2 feedbacks if you are interested: - it is annoying to have the "category" required to create a task. Maybe you could create a task with an "undefined" category if none provided? - a great feature would be to be able to export the result output or view in a PNG picture or SVG.
The first button in the bar is create a new task. That's the first thing any visitor will click. If you try to create a task there is no category available, no hint they are required or important, no reason why I'd care what category the task is, and the error state is indicated by a green highlight - the universal signal for "everything is good." All I would have seen is, hmm, I can't make a task, this must be broken. Move on.
I mention all of this because the app looks like a fantastic new tool and I suspect this small issue would have a much bigger impact on adoption than you might anticipate as the author of the tool.
Feature request: Allow planning by days following Authorization to Proceed or similar undefined start date. I realize this runs into its own problems but 99% of the time I don't know when that date might be yet I need to lay out a schedule to support a proposal to get the funding to do the job being planned. Weekends, holidays, and other specifics are less important than a view of task relationships and milestones over weeks and months.
Even the huge MS Project cannot or will not do that.
It looks like a light weight tool. Thanks.
Over the last 15 years the browser has become more and more of an application delivery platform, and that notion has caused SaaS to run basically everything.
I realised this not too long ago, and incidentally it was due to gantt software.
We, like everyone it seems, use Jira for issue tracking, but the actual roadmapping of resources and dependencies leaves a lot to be desired, tools like Microsoft Project are not only prohibitively expensive- they also don't work on MacOS.
Similar issues can be levied at Omnigraph.
Only SaaS tools like "InstaGantt" seem to fit the bill of cross-platform, lightweight and reasonably cost effective.
Note: I'm currently not using Instagantt, despite it being the closest to good I could find, because I dislike subscriptions. :(
I'd use a plain file picker for loading instead of the file system access API. That's even less security cross-section.
I've worked in very large scale project management, to the tune of 3-8 companies working together on a single project, each with 1,200 to 2,500 people working on the project from each company, and all the tasks are managed by fractional hours per person, and then summed into working groups to accomplish the hundreds of thousands of individuals tasks over a 12 to 36 month schedule. Think animated media production.
I'd love to integrate something like simplegantt into this work. Currently it's fed managers' scheduling excel files, with no easy way to visualize the entire schedule across all participants without an external moderately lengthy process to compile all that info.
Great work on this!
Sharepoint just runs arbitrary aspx files???????