Nigel Ashworth
Independent Project Consultant · 1-10
1 review written · 5.0 average
Nigel Ashworth's favourite software
No favourites yet.
Reviews by Nigel Ashworth
★★★★★
Zapier is what made this whole thing click for me. About a year in as a solo consultant, I rely on Basecamp sitting comfortably in the middle of my stack, firing updates into Slack, pulling in tasks from email, nudging my invoicing tool when a project closes. None of that required a developer or a weekend of setup. The native integrations are modest, honest, but what Basecamp exposes through its API and third-party connectors is more than enough for a one-person operation who refuses to live inside a single app all day.
There are moments I wish the Zapier triggers were a bit more granular. A completed to-do fires just fine, but filtering by project or list takes some workaround creativity. Small friction. Overall, Basecamp does exactly what it promises: it holds everything together without demanding that everything live inside it. For a freelancer who juggles four or five client tools simultaneously, that philosophy is genuinely refreshing.
