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Now you can build custom teams in your ActiveCollab workspace, and use notification reminders to make sure everyone stays on top of their work, time, and project goals. 00:00 Intro 00:21 Team… September Recap: Team Profiles and Reminders

ActiveCollab September update:

👥 Team Profiles.Stay on top of team projects, tasks, and availability,
⏲️ Reminders for Notifications. Never lose track of a notification again.

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Have two accounts, one for global and one for local conversations. Usually topics and areas of interest differ, sometimes even the social networks.

Lets promote curiosity and tinkering, it will definitely help us exercise that bias for action muscle. Like with an actual workshop, safety first, of course. ✌️

Was 100% accuracy required?

Great books 👌 Got to Cibola Burn, and then got distracted with other series (first Mistborn, now neck deep in the world the First Law). Need to get back to the Rocinante crew.

Heroes completed. I still miss Tul Duru 🗡️

Depends on what's being presented. For concepts and ideas, no interruption is usually a good approach, as questions are frequnetly answered later on in presentation part.

During April and May ActiveCollab team shipped:

📊 All new Time dashboard
🔌 Updated QuickBooks integrations
🏋️ Up to 5x faster Workload
💵 Cost summary report for projects and tasks
🗓️ Improved calendar filtering

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Or have been doing that for a long time. There's so many established products where shipping fast is the only way to stay competitive. Trunk Based Development, CD, mature design systems and UI pattern libraries, reusable (micro)services (auth, billing…), all big assets.

Maybe hook needs to be a bit more "pointy"? Show the graph of CL revenue over the decades, a list of contenders that did not succeed in overthrowing it etc? Something to test maybe?

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I mean a reliable removal of signatures, so actual content of messages remain.

Do you still experience problems with signature stripping, or is that something that got solved long time ago, but I did not get the memo? 😀

HTMX shows an interesting direction. I would expect far richer palette of standard form and layout components.

Actually, you want both.

March Recap: ActiveCollab 8 Rollout, Revamped Time Reports, Client Invoices, and Recurring Events in Calendar From ActiveCollab 8 rollout and improved time reports, to client invoice widgets, and recurring events: March was busy over here!

March was a busy month here at #ActiveCollab. We shipped:

🚀 ActiveCollab 8 launched to most accounts
⏱️ All new Time Report, with new ways to filter, sort and group data
💰 New ways to create invoices
📆 Improved handling of recurring calendar events

Ah, OK. You also have public pages. In our case everything's behind login, but there are some types of notifications that people did try to exploit. Weirdest thing was a wave of accounts that paid, and then sent spam.🤯

Which email donains are they using? What's the HelpSpot funcgion that they are using to send spam? Creating help desk tickets and sending them out?

I healthy dose of skepticism is required, it has been like that for years. Some areas are more problematic that the others (social media, vs closed communities).

Question was what you think about offering a really cheap plan, way cheaper than the rest of the offering, as a free plan replacement. Most of the time, Good-Better-Best are equally "spaced" price-wise. There's linearity to the price. I'm asking about Good plan being 5x cheaper than middle plan.

The idea is to have something in the range of impulsive purchase, but they actually have to commit by paying. If Good works for them, fine, they are a paying customer, but if they grow and need Better, it's easy to upgrade, and their card is already on file.

What about plans that offer great value for an intentionally low price? Ex, there are Good, Better & Best plans. Best and Better and priced as they should be: $20 and $40 per user per month, but Good is $10 per month for 10 people.

Jira had something like that, but turned it to free at some point.

Share WiFi passwords between devices. When traveling and connecting to a new WiFi, first person connects, and shares the password with everyone else.

The Illusion of a Smart Home I woke up too early this morning to watch India play Australia in the Champions Trophy cricket. I know, I don’t have a life. But while the game was unfolding...

"The IoT industry isn’t focused on making great products—it’s focused on trapping consumers into ecosystems" We built a new, modern family house in 2018. There's not a single smart home device in it. When old tech's better than new, I just pass.

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What type of tools are you referring to? Editors? Frameworks? Librarirs? CLI tools?

Depends on the market. Is your audience your target market? Techies building for techies is one of the toughest spaces to make something big(ish). Markets like insurance, manufacturing, logistics etc may hold more potential, yet it's unlikely I'll find a lot of these customers in my Followers list.

February Recap: External Calendars in ActiveCollab, Client Invoices and Estimates, and Improved Timesheets Now you can import external calendars in ActiveCollab, see invoices and estimates in clients' profiles, and better manage timesheets!

During February we worked on 👇

📅 Option to import events form Google Calendar, Outlook etc, and show them on Workload (Early Access soon)
🧾 List estimates and invoices under client's profile
📋 Sort and export Timesheet data, to see trends and if someone missed to track time

Microsoft does it best. They start with "Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription", and then continue by saying that they are removing one service (no replacement), and one product (sort of replaced). How…? Never mind…

Crazy thing about these stats is that I mostly listen to audio books while driving. Alone! That's a lot of alone time behind the wheel.

Onboarding Made Easier with ActiveCollab Virtual Users Virtual Users are ActiveCollab's signature feature that helps you plan capacity and prepare for team member and client onboarding, free of charge!

Now that I read an article that described what Virtual Users are and how they can be used for team member and client onboarding, I'm a bit sad that it came as a smaller part of a big release (ActiveCollab v8). It's such a great feature by itself!