@Dean @sarina Thanks for the suggestions! Another one we have been using at OpenCraft is https://monday.com/ (tool makers were very inspired by days of the week, apparently ;p). It is good, but it has problems of its own (price, clunkiness, noisy notifications).
Another good suggestion several people have sent to me is Google Forms – it’s simple but would do the job, and allow easy exporting.
That said, a general issue with every single tool we have found so far is that they are closed source – which is a problem, especially for an open source project. We have tried many (proprietary) tools in that space over time at OpenCraft, and there is always a point where the processes don’t quite fit the tool, and without the ability to make changes to it, we ended up stuck.
Which is why I’ve looked into the possibility of re-using an open-source project we’ve been working on, to solve similar needs around our async reporting & checklist. I wasn’t sure we would be able to offer to adapt it in time to fit the core sprints needs before June, but it looks like @Fox_Piacenti @ali_hugo and @itsjeyd found a way to make it fit, if we want to pursue this. So what do you think – could this be a good way to replace Friday.app?
Here are a few links to learn more:
- Discussion about it on the OpenCraft forums
- Project repo on gitlab
- Design mockups (for another process - to be adapted to the core sprints) (CC @ali_hugo )
Btw, one of the advantages of using an open source tool is that if you see something that doesn’t quite work or would be missing, we can change it – so don’t hesitate, especially now before the adaptations would be designed & developed.