Stikkit in your Campfire

Warning- boring, typical rambling post for most of you . . .

Do any of you use Basecamp, Stikkit, Backpackit or RememberTheMilk? I’ve been trying out the sites for a while and keep thinking about them in the work environment. I’m not sure if I completely like/love any of them although they each have pretty nifty features. I’d be interesting in hearing what you think if you have used them.

They each have been getting a lot of buzz (stikkit a lot recently just because it’s newer and 43folders mentioned them — well, 43F’s main dude is on their board). But I’m not sure if the buzz is deserved. (Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good site, but the 43F community tends to go a bit overboard on things).

RememberTheMilk is the newest one for me. Pak told me to check it out. It seems like it’s pretty fast and slick (nice maps), but not as intuitive. Stikkit goes out of the way to be automatic for the user. Basecamp and Backpackit aren’t as automatic but seem more “enterprise-level” friendly.

I’m also not sure how stikkit, in particular, is going to make money. Basecamp/Backpackit and the other 37Signals sites seem to have their price plans well thought out and implemented.

I was going to write a brief blurb about what each site does, but you can look them up yourselves. Besides, if you’re looking them up, then the answer to my question at the start this post is “no”. If you do sign up for Betas/Free Accounts, and want to add contacts I’m usually using my gmail account and my typical username.

But really- if you were a consultant, or had a small office, or projects that didn’t require SVN-type repositories, I can see you liking this. But in a company with more than a certain amount of people- you’d need an in-house version of these types of sites. (A slimmed-down CollabNet anyone?)

Okay, enough – I’m going to play with my free Basecamp project planning thing for a little while longer.