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No Kahuna Means Easy Task and Project Management
A new task and project management Web app launched a couple of months ago named No Kahuna. No Kahuna provides a simple interface for keeping tabs on projects and their associated tasks. You can easily invite others to a project so a team can manage and view the current real-time status. There’s also a news-style feed in the dashboard to see status on all projects at one time.
I spoke with co-founder Duff OMelia regarding the No Kahuna pricing structure. Duff explains, "you get unlimited projects and unlimited users on those projects. Only the projects that *really* take off need an upgrade. ($9 gets you 3 project upgrades). Only projects with more than 30 open tasks will ever need upgrading. Since closed tasks do not count, most projects never reach that limit." Open source projects are also free. I’d like to see the pricing page changed to make it easier to understand.
If most projects won’t hit the upgrade minimum, how will they generate revenue? There are no ads on the site. I still believe that if you are using the freemium model as the main business model, it’s critical that you don’t give away so much for free that no one needs to upgrade!
No Kahuna won’t replace Microsoft Project or other enterprise-level project management systems but for small-to-medium teams, it could be a good way to keep projects on track. In my testing and after managing teams of several hundred on multiple continents, I found No Kahuna to be simple and had no unneeded bells and whistles. Get in, report your task or project status and get out.
As for suggestions, I’d vote for an export option on the main status feed so that it can be added to Facebook, Twitter, mobile, etc. This will let the project manager monitor what’s going on from anywhere. A simple mobile app would also make No Kahuna even more useful.
No Kahuna reminds me of a couple off the first applications we reviewed on CN, Toggl and Tick. Toggl and Tick focus more on time management around tasks while No Kahuna focuses on the task itself.
It would’ve been nice if they provided a demo (video) about their product (I believe this is a good suggestion for them). It does look like a promising collaboration tool tough.
Thanks for highlighting this app, I love Basecamp but always open to new approaches. It is great to see apps that have a revenue plan from day 1 as well.
you are welcome Caleb – I am trying to bring new ideas, new concepts etc to the cn audience….
That’s a weird name, BTW. How is the tool different from the others? I mean Wrike, Basecamp and so on? I understand the pricing model is different, but is there anything else?
That’s a weird name, BTW. How is the tool different from the others? I mean Wrike, Basecamp and so on? I understand the pricing model is different, but is there anything else?
Sounds like a great package — im currently using Deskaway and im kind of happy with it. Nevertheless i might give it a shot. At first glance, i think the DA interface is better – your thoughts as to how the tool compares with others in the SMB sector?
We are using Intervals and are quite happy with it. We require time tracking which it looks like this one doesn’t have?
Thanks for the post and also for your comments and suggestions. We are planing to do add RSS feeds asap. But we are not likely to add time tracking in the near future. There is other tools that do that very well already and we rather work towards integrating with them.
Our focus (and strength) lies in team work and how that can be assisted by No Kahuna. We want to enable that without barriers or requiring much learning or even training. Check out our wiki for some more info on that: http://nokahuna.wikispaces.com/No+Kahuna+principles
Feel free to hit us with questions (and requests, too). Thanks again!