ProdoDesk is a productivity platform that unifies all your tasks, projects, milestones, and documents into one cohesive workspace with AI. Users can organize their tasks, projects, and resources in any way they can imagine and the AI suggests next steps or plans the day for them.
Some of the main features are:
- Personalized dashboard with recent stats and resources
- AI-powered daily planning based on your energy level and available time
- Task triage that helps organize your unsorted work
- Flexible task views with sorting
- Calendar view for scheduled tasks and upcoming deadlines
- Areas for organizing projects
- Projects with outcomes, progress tracking, and associated tasks, milestones, documents, and activity
- Milestones to break larger projects into steps
- Rich-text documents
- ProdoDesk AI for creating, updating, finding, and organizing your workspace
- Detailed activity tracking
- Secure authentication and ownership checks
- Pagination and infinite scrolling for efficient data fetching
- Responsive UI that supports light and dark modes
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I wanted to create my own platform to help me organize my tasks and projects tailored to my preferences and workflows. Building this project also taught me many valuable lessons and skills. The entire project from start to first usable prototype took 7-9 weeks of planning, careful design, thought about user needs and UI, and actually building it out, feature by feature. I hope to continue working on this project and turn this into something real used by real people.
Go to the ProdoDesk website, hosted on Vercel.
The application has many features you can explore. First go to the ProdoDesk website and create an account (note that the platform DOES send an email verification OTP when you sign in with email-password). You can create some tasks, play around with the numerous features the platform has to offer. Note that the AI features directly depend on HackClub AI so they might not work if HackClub AI is down.
If you would rather run this locally, I have instructions below.
- Next.js with React & Typescript
- Neon for DB and Drizzle as the ORM
- Better Auth for secure, easy authentication
- Mailjet for sending emails
- Tailwind CSS for styling and Shadcn UI for easy-to-edit and reusable components
- React Hook Form handles easy form input field management and Zod handles form validation and input validation
- Tiptap for rich-text document editing experience
- Vercel AI SDK and OpenRouter (through HackClub AI) for structured AI generation, streamed responses, tool calling, and AI features
- TanStack Query for client-side data fetching
- date-fns for date/timezone handling
- dnd-kit for drag and drop interactions
- Tigris for S3-compatible object storage for images and files
- PNPM as the package manager
To run this project you will need a few things setup:
- Node.js (At least version 20.9, check the Next.js docs for more information)
- PNPM (The package manager used in this project)
- Git (To clone the repo to your local machine)
Go to the Node.js website and follow the installation instructions there to install it on your machine. To verify it is working, you can enter the following command:
node --version
npm --versionIf both commands run successfully and print out version numbers with no "not found" errors, then you are good to go.
This project uses PNPM as the package manager. To install, run:
npm install -g pnpm@latestOnce installed, you can verify it is working by running the following command:
pnpm --versionIf it prints a version number with no errors, then you are good to go. Otherwise, please refer to the PNPM documentation for more information.
Go to the Git website and follow the installation instructions there to install it on your system (if you don't already have it).
Then run the following command to verify that it works:
git --versionIf no errors are raised, then you are good to continue.
To clone, run:
git clone https://github.com/Danieldkdao/prododesk.git
cd prododesk
pnpm installOnce finished, open the project in your favorite IDE or code editor.
Because the project uses @t3-oss/env-nextjs for environment variables, it will throw an error if you try to run the application without any of the following variables in an .env file at the root of the application:
# Database
DATABASE_URL=
# Better Auth
BETTER_AUTH_URL=
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=
# Google
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=
# GitHub
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=
# Mailjet
MAILJET_API_KEY=
MAILJET_API_SECRET=
SENDER_EMAIL=
# AI
HACK_CLUB_AI_API_KEY=
# Search the web
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=
# Image and file uploads
TIGRIS_STORAGE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
TIGRIS_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
TIGRIS_STORAGE_ENDPOINT=
TIGRIS_STORAGE_BUCKET=
NEXT_PUBLIC_TIGRIS_STORAGE_BUCKET=
To start the project locally, simply run:
pnpm db:push
pnpm devTo confirm that the project is running successfully, you can go to localhost:3000 in your browser. If you see the landing page, then it worked!
To build the project for production, you can run:
pnpm buildSee the package.json for more information.
There are a few bottlenecks that might impact the experience of using the website:
- Hackclub AI is used for some features. If the service is down, some AI features might not work.
If you ran into any issues while trying to run the project locally, you can Google the issue or ask an LLM for help.
If you found a bug, an issue, or just have a feature request please don't hesitate to email me at danieldkdao@gmail.com. I am actively working on this and I hope to make this a real thing used by real people, so I would appreciate any feedback or requests you may have!
The project was solely my creation with some AI assistance. No outside reference regarding the initial idea or code was used.
AI was used for some tasks which I have documented below. Every line of AI generated code was read, understood, and tweaked if necessary.
- Help troubleshoot and fix bugs
- Suggest next steps and new features
- Helped in researching documentation for new packages/libraries
- Helped me with code reviews and testing
- Automate boring, mundane tasks
- Suggest ideas for the UI
No other people worked on this project other than myself.
This project is licensed under the MIT license.