Michele’s Freeminding

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I’m very excited to introduce you with my new sweet little creature. I’ve been working very hard on it for a good while and now it is ready to see the light.
Here comes 16bugs.

16bugs is a Web application — of course, with a bit of so-called Web 2.0 — for managing a usually tedious and dull task such as bug tracking.

If you’ve ever scouted around for a good bug tracking solution, sure enough you know what all of the available solutions have in common:

1. They’re hard to install, usually needing a custom machine.
2. They’re not intuitive to use for non-developers — and often for developers, too.
3. Most look really bad!

And this is where 16bugs comes in. It tries to fill all those gaps:

1. No need to spend 1 day to install it: it’s hosted!
2. I struggled to make it as intuitive and easy to use as possible.
3. Aren’t those ladybugs lovely?

It’s the first time I attempt something of this kind — I mean on the hosted side of things — so you might see things stumble and fall at the beginning. But rest assured I’ll do everything I can to fix any issue that might — and definitely will thanks to our good friend Murphy — arise.

It definitely isn’t choke-full of features, indeed it’s actually what I tried to avoid.
If you’re Apple, Google or Microsoft, you might find it useless. Instead, if you’re a small software development company or a web designer, it might suits your needs perfectly.
Especially web designers don’t need many features, they just need a place where their clients — or anybody else for what this matter — can go to tell what’s wrong: so it needs to be easy to use.

Now I ask you, my fellow readers, to try it out — if you’re interested, of course — and then spread the word — if you like it, of course ;) .
And if you don’t want to do it for me, at least do it for those poor little ladybugs… :)

Update: digg 16bugs! :)

This post was written 2 years, 4 months ago on March 27th, 2006 early afternoon.