I've been working on project planning tools for a while, and I keep running into the same gap.
On one side are simple task apps. They're easy to use, the whole team adopts them, and they look great. But ask them "when will this project actually finish?" and they can't tell you. They track to-dos but don't schedule anything. If one task slips, nothing else moves.
On the other side is traditional scheduling software. It has real dependencies, critical paths and resource planning. But it's expensive, takes weeks to learn, and usually only the project manager opens it. Everyone else works from an exported PDF that's out of date by Tuesday.
Most teams I've talked to end up with a messy middle ground: a task board for the team, a spreadsheet for the timeline, and a manager quietly re-doing dates by hand every Friday.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Smilu, and I built KaamGrid.
While managing projects, I kept ending up with two tools open. A task board my team was happy to use, and a scheduling tool only I could read. The board couldn't tell me when we'd actually finish or who was overloaded. The scheduler could, but it was desktop-only, expensive, and nobody else wanted to touch it. So the real plan lived in my head and in a pile of spreadsheets.
KaamGrid is my attempt to stop choosing between the two.
You type tasks like a list. Link them, and the dates, critical path and finish date work themselves out.
The plan is everyone's to-do list. Assign a task and it lands in that person's My tasks with subtasks, files and comments, and their progress flows straight back into the schedule.
You see workload across every project, so you can spot who's overbooked and rebalance in one click.
It opens Microsoft Project XML files, so you don't have to start over.
It also works with any working week: Sunday to Thursday, six-day weeks, your own holidays.
It's free to start, no card needed, and there's a live demo with sample projects if you'd rather look around first:
Live demo – KaamGrid
It's day one, and we don't have customers yet, so honest feedback means a lot. One question for you: what made you give up on the last planning tool you tried?
I'll be here all day replying to everyone.