I’m not naturally a super organised person. I don’t think many people are. As I was thinking about returning to freelance I was hunting around for a suitable project management system. I had looked at and used a large number of the many alternatives that are available on the market, but nothing quite captured me.
Enter Verb
Verb began as an idea one day on a long drive. I’d thought about building a project management system before, but this time I had a real idea that wasn’t just rebuilding what already existed, and was achievable by my one man team of developers and designers.
I have been working on Verb on the occasional weekend or evening for the last few months, but in the last few weeks I have put in a bit more effort, and even found a name for it. So now you all know what my secret project has been.
Verb is a user focused task management and sharing system. It’s not really trying to compete with the big project management systems out there. If you want all the bells and whistles then you might want to go pay for them. What I am creating is something different.
The difference
Where the popular alternatives are group focused, Verb is user focused. This means that all your tasks are in the one place. Each user has their own projects which can be shared as needed. This is great for people who frequently work with other business or freelancers, without having to log into a separate system for each project. Needless to say, if you don’t work with other people then Verb is still great for managing your tasks.
Most importantly I want Verb to do two things, and do them well. Those two things are 1. task management, and 2. task sharing. I want Verb to be shaped around what you as a user want. I will be considering all feedback carefully.
Currently Verb is in alpha, but it is hurtling towards beta, where I will start to open it up to more people.
You can find Verb at verbapp.com. If you want you can follow the updates at the Verb twitter page.
For those that care:
As an alpha tester/user, I’m loving Verb!
Using it for personal projects and work projects. It’s exactly what I was after so far… looking forward to beta :D
The site has the simplicity in design I love from your sites Huw. I haven’t explored it fully yet but I will start giving it a workout soon.
Looks pretty slick, can’t wait to try it, whenever you enable registrations again :)
Just curious, what powers Verb? (other than blood, sweat and tears…)
@Rowan Thanks. I will be handing out some invites to existing users soon.
Verb is built with Django. I find it to be the perfect framework for me. There’s also a bit of jQuery in there as well.
I wish I had come sooner. I would love to try out Verb.
I arrived here through Smashing Machines article on 404 pages because I really loved yours. It’s so pretty and funny.
It’s a nice looking blog too.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/29/404-error-pages-one-more-time/
@fairyhedgehog Thanks!
@Rowan @Marc If you want to try Verb when we get to beta then you can now sign up at http://verbapp.com/ we hope to be handing out some invites soon!
Really like the design , NEAT . But i was missing the now standard effects and ajax which we see in web apps so much now.
Good work .
Great minimalistic template. I like it.
Quick wish: put bigger screenshots on the Verb site. As it is, I am not really sure it’s worth registering. I still will, but because I’m desperate :P
I love this color blue. I love it on Virb, and on this site. Nice site.
I agree with jj, The screenshots are too small, there is no demo so I do not know if it is worth registering.
Somebody send me a link to your blog, and I decided to check it out. Cool, friendly and simple. That is what most of the people are looking nowadays,right? Just stop to say Hi. Keep up with good work.
I agree with the guys - it does look interesting. But without bigger screen shots it is difficult to make a conclusion regarding common layout.
Madame? Monsieur?