aC forum: What are you doing?

Post #23 by J1m

J1m — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:15:28 CDT

Hello,

I work for a door manufacturing company in the UK. We receive orders for custom external doors which currently go through our factory ad-hoc - and hopefully a door comes out the other end when it's supposed to. I believe we can use aC to schedule work through the factory. Each door can be a project with all the tasks required to manufacture it assigned to our individual employees on specific dates. We can make and track changes as the door progresses through the factory and see at any time what stage the manufacture is at. We can even give our customers external access so they can see the progress of thir own doors.

We're hoping to use aC to schedule our entire workflow :D - should make our jobs here a hell of a lot easier. Thanks for the app guys!!

J1m

Post #22 by Eon McKai

Eon McKai — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:23:28 CDT

Hello I'm a Pornographer from Los Angeles. I over see the Vivid-alt imprint witch is backed buy Vivid Entertainment.

using aC to keep all I'll the projects running on time. So far it's been a big help..

you can see my work here
http://vividalt.com/home.php

and my sight here...
http://www.eonmckai.com/main/

Post #21 by joebarone

joebarone — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:51:48 CDT

Greetings from Chicago!

I'm a design student at the Illinois Institute of Art and I just switched from BaseCamp to activeCollab and couldn't be happier :) I recently created a design collective called MotionScience and will be using aC to organize internal development (our website creation, PR, etc...) along with artistic collaborations and other creative "projects" in the future. I plan on making aC a core component of our efforts :)

I am also a freelance designer/consultant and use aC to organize my clients projects, and the seem to be very happy with it as well!

congrats on such a successful app!

-Joe

Post #20 by mvrana

mvrana — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:09:41 CDT

I run a boutique graphic design studio in Montreal specializing in book and publication design (www.blackeye.com). Activecollab has proven to be the first project management system that we've kept with for longer than a few months. We've been on for over a year now, and love it.

Post #19 by talahari

talahari — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:59:51 CDT

Hi,
I'm french, I'm an engineer working in an architecture company. I use AC to plan projects with all structural, fluid ... engineers. I also do 3D, com and network.
I'm happy with AC except that we cannot create subfolders witch is a nightmare for the kind of projects I work on (lot of files, sketches and images) even if I found a writing manner workaround. My other problem is that I cannot get the authorization to tweak my external account to make AC work with linked files and not storred database files.
I'm waiting a lot from this new version and I'm confident.

Cheers

Post #18 by drgreenway

drgreenway — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:03:48 CDT

I'm an trainee Anaesthetist who has created a website for my other colleagues to collaborate on audit and research projects. I have a little HTML experience but haven't made a website other than this one for almost a decade. Ilija has made this easy to do. Thanks!

Dr. Mike

Post #17 by aduess

aduess — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:49:26 CDT

Hi

I own a publishing company in Canada (Spire publishing, http://www.spirepublishing.com) and we're currently using basecamp for our author support system. With a growing number of authors this was getting expensive and activecollab came around just at the right time.

Our webhost, dreamhost, offers a one click install, which makes things really easy for us.

Post #16 by superjadex12

superjadex12 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:41:04 CDT

I run a custom screen print shop in southern california (usa). We print shirts and hoodies for high school clubs mostly. I am looking into aC to work with our customers in going over their designs, garment and sizing information and any other concerns. aC is great because it provides written documentation of everything that was discussed, edited, and eventually agreed upon.

I did make a custom system to keep track of customers and their orders , written in php/mysql. But I'm looking to streamline everything into an online (product) site, with customer/order info, and as well, an order collaboration sytem(aC).
Even though I print shirts for a living, I have been passionately obsessed with coding for 3 years now. It's amazing how people are able to do this stuff. I am self taught, mostly from reading about code online. Even though I can do so much more now, I still am very new to all of this and theres so much to learn!

Great to see I'm not alone! Happy coding everyone!

P.S
my company site is here www.apsurd.com
still got a long way to go but its my prized posession! Hand coded in notepad++

Post #15 by pixelita

pixelita — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:55:50 CDT

I am one half of Pixelita Designs, LLC, a Houston, Texas (USA)-based web design shop specializing in WordPress-, Drupal-, and ExpressionEngine-based small business, personal and professional web sites. I had been using PHPCollab to manage my projects but the daunting layout of the project details and difficult navigation and separate Project Staging Area made it cumbersome for both me and my clients to use.

This is a much leaner, easier to set up and use program, and so far one client has taken it for a "test drive" and loves it.

Post #14 by jsamlarose

jsamlarose — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:37:02 CST

I'm a poet, freelance web developer, executive editor, and artistic director for a range of literature and education projects. (Imagine rolling that off the tongue at your next social function...)

As you can imagine, I use a range of tools to help me stay on top of all of the things I need to do - I currently use kGTD (in conjunction with iCal and mail.app) for my personal project/task overview/management, and I'm setting up aC to help me project manage most of my collaborative projects. I've got an install of aC on my own server, but I'm also introducing it to one of the companies I work with, and installing it on their server for a specific project.

Oh, and I'm based in London, UK.

Kudos n' props to Ilija and the aC fam.