Freedcamp CEO/Co-Founder Angel Grablev Shares the Company’s Origins and Methods for Project Management – The Busy Creator Podcast 63
08/03/15 • 52 min
Angel Grablev (@AngelGrablev) is the CEO and Co-Founder of Freedcamp, an online project management and collaboration application. Angel began Freedcamp as a side project, but has since built a global distributed team, and now works full-time to improve project management for thousands of customers.
Our conversation covers Angel’s previous work as a web developer, Freedcamp’s origins and intents, as well as the trouble faced in conventional project management. We also discuss management style and company culture more generally, as it relates to measured results and keeping your co-workers informed.
Sign up for Freedcamp, for free, at Freedcamp.com
Show Notes & Links- Freedcamp is a collaboration system which helps any team work together on any sort of project.
- Prescott learned about Freedcamp from Bryan Orr, when he appeared on Episode 31 – Project Management Tools & Collaboration Software
- FTP, the best way to share files not that long ago
- Jack Johnson
- Lenny Kravitz
- Angel’s former employer introduced him to Basecamp
- UCSB – University of California at Santa Barbara
“No team is alike.”
—Angel Grablev
- Angel got the idea for Freedcamp after attempting to organize a camping trip on email
- “Underdo The Competition” — Basecamp’s tagline
- iPhone 1, started with basic apps, but the App Store added tons of functionality
“No one is interested in paying money to organize a camping trip.”
—Angel Grablev
- Freedcamp boasted 30,000 users in its first year
- Some use cases include hurricane clean-up efforts, parent-teacher associations, university students
- ADHD & Dyslexia led Angel to becoming a web developer with design skills
- Angel built the first HTML5/CSS3 framework, 52 Framework
- Santa Barbara City College
- Freedcamp’s team lives in California, Australia, Ukraine, and Netherlands
- Eating your own dog food
- GitHub
- Agile Development
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- AMC, users of Freedcamp
- A gaming studio used Freedcamp’s Wiki application to plan an entire game
- The Wall, a social, less formal place to have conversations within Freedcamp
- Animated GIFs & Emoji — adding flavour to group chatter
“The biggest gift I have is the people I work with.”
—Angel Grablev
- The One Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan On Amazon and On Audible
Angel Grablev (@AngelGrablev) is the CEO and Co-Founder of Freedcamp, an online project management and collaboration application. Angel began Freedcamp as a side project, but has since built a global distributed team, and now works full-time to improve project management for thousands of customers.
Our conversation covers Angel’s previous work as a web developer, Freedcamp’s origins and intents, as well as the trouble faced in conventional project management. We also discuss management style and company culture more generally, as it relates to measured results and keeping your co-workers informed.
Sign up for Freedcamp, for free, at Freedcamp.com
Show Notes & Links- Freedcamp is a collaboration system which helps any team work together on any sort of project.
- Prescott learned about Freedcamp from Bryan Orr, when he appeared on Episode 31 – Project Management Tools & Collaboration Software
- FTP, the best way to share files not that long ago
- Jack Johnson
- Lenny Kravitz
- Angel’s former employer introduced him to Basecamp
- UCSB – University of California at Santa Barbara
“No team is alike.”
—Angel Grablev
- Angel got the idea for Freedcamp after attempting to organize a camping trip on email
- “Underdo The Competition” — Basecamp’s tagline
- iPhone 1, started with basic apps, but the App Store added tons of functionality
“No one is interested in paying money to organize a camping trip.”
—Angel Grablev
- Freedcamp boasted 30,000 users in its first year
- Some use cases include hurricane clean-up efforts, parent-teacher associations, university students
- ADHD & Dyslexia led Angel to becoming a web developer with design skills
- Angel built the first HTML5/CSS3 framework, 52 Framework
- Santa Barbara City College
- Freedcamp’s team lives in California, Australia, Ukraine, and Netherlands
- Eating your own dog food
- GitHub
- Agile Development
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- AMC, users of Freedcamp
- A gaming studio used Freedcamp’s Wiki application to plan an entire game
- The Wall, a social, less formal place to have conversations within Freedcamp
- Animated GIFs & Emoji — adding flavour to group chatter
“The biggest gift I have is the people I work with.”
—Angel Grablev
- The One Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan On Amazon and On Audible
Previous Episode
Programmer & Developer Ben Borowski explores the creative side of software and shares his recent personal projects – The Busy Creator Podcast 62
Ben Borowski (@TypeOneError) is a software developer and programmer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In past years, Ben run a small studio doing web development for top agencies, but has recently made a move to create his own project, and is working on that full-time.
Ben is one half of Oki Doki, along with Designer & Digital Strategist Marie Poulin. Together, the duo are hard at work on Doki, a web platform to build and run online courses and communities. In this conversation, Ben discusses the creative side of programming, the definition of a “coder”, and the challenges of putting aside client projects for the endeavor of building your own app.
Catch up with Ben on his site, Type One Error, or check out Doki.io.
Show Notes & Links- Marie Poulin was a guest on The Busy Creator Podcast last year
- Ben defines himself broadly as a web developer, but more specifically as a programmer in Ruby, and other disciplines
- TWiT – This Week in Tech
- Ben doesn’t subscribe to the idea that “Coders aren’t necessarily programmers”
- If Statements, For Loops – essentials in programming
- Mark-up is code
“I’ve met many computer science guys ... who are completely stumped by CSS.”
—Ben Borowski
“If you’re building a website and you write HTML tags, you’re a coder.”
—Ben Borowski
- Markdown, the coding format for Reddit comments
- Dustin Hartzler, WordPress Engineer and host Your Website Engineer Podcast
- Podcast Movement Conference
“Programing is more technical ... but making software is creative.”
—Ben Borowski
- Product Designer, as the term applies to web design, can incorporate development/programming
- Open-Source, a place for inspiration
- Ben consults and develops cross-platform games, and other projects
- Doki, currently in development as a consulting platform and will be a public product soon
- Previous guests on The Busy Creator Podcast have discussed online teaching, such as Karen Marston, Steve Dotto
- Javascript framework Ember.js (similar to Ruby-on-Rails for the front end of the website)
- Prescott attended Drexel University, a school set up on the quarter system.
- Alpha testers
You can’t have nine people make a baby in one month.
—productivity adage
- Unit Tests or Feature Tests are useful for programmers when merging code and error-correcting
- Material Design, from Google — hard to describe because it’s almost like a framework ... for design
- Facebook asks developers to work on the main product in their first week
- Gone in 60 Seconds, writing on the walls in detergent and using a blacklight
- Type One Error
- Oki Doki
- Ben Borowski on Twitter
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Todd Henry Returns to Discuss Significance, Vision, and Competence for Creative Pros – The Busy Creator Podcast 64
Todd Henry (@ToddHenry) is an author, speaker, and creative consultant who has written three books, including his newest, Louder Than Words, available August 11, 2015.
Todd Henry’s new book, Louder Than Words
Building on his previous writing efforts, Louder Than Words is aimed at creative professionals who struggle to find significance in the larger arc of their work and careers. Together, we discuss his unwavering writing methodologies, the struggles faced by creative pros at various points in their career, and what he’s discovered in writing and publishing three related books in seven years.
Catch up with Todd at ToddHenry.com, or AccidentalCreative.com
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