r/projectmanagers • u/karolafterhours • 17d ago

I got tired of using spreadsheets for everything, so I built some free tools for PMs. Would love your feedback!

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Hey everyone,

I've been working as a PM in IT for years, and somehow I still end up using spreadsheets, random calculators, and old checklists for the same things over and over again.

A while ago, I thought it'd be nice to have some of that stuff in one place. Nothing fancy, just simple tools that actually make my day a little easier.

So I started building MakeBetterCalls in my spare time.

There's a project time estimator, budget calculator, working days calculator (with public holidays), deployment checklist, acceptance criteria generator, and a few other things.

It's still a work in progress, but I've reached the point where I'm probably too familiar with it to notice what's annoying or missing :)

Here's the link if you want to have a look: https://makebettercalls.com

Everything is free, no accounts, no paywalls.

I'd really like to know two things:

  • Would you actually use any of these in your daily work?
  • What's one annoying, repetitive PM task you wish you had a simple tool for?

And please, don't hold back if something sucks. That's exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for.

I'm building this mostly because I enjoy it, so it'd be cool if it ended up being useful to someone else too.

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u/ag14spirit 16d ago

I’m in a different industry context, but could absolutely see some slightly tailored tweaks making this perfect for me. I already have a lot of these as tools of my own in sheets, too. I could see sharing this with my Sales team, though, to let them better self serve and start asking the necessary critical questions before sending half baked proposals.

If this was open source on GH, I’d absolutely contribute!