I’ve been working with Basecamp at work for a few years now and it works very well. When I decided I should use something similar for some of my personal projects, it fit the bill. I also started using GitHub for my repositories, this was fine when it was in still in Beta and I had a private repository for free. After a few months of not committing code and painful deployments (no capistrano), I decided it was time to find an alternative to GitHub. I didn’t really feel like paying for a private repo.
After a quick search, I found Unfuddle and to my surprise, it had unlimited Private Repositories free. So I signed up. Now after using it and looking at all the features I’m thinking it can maybe be my all-in-one place to do all the project management for my own projects. It has messages and Milestones like Basecamp, it has git and subversion repos, and a wiki (well, notebooks, but they can be managed like a wiki) like GitHub. There is some things that Unfuddle is missing compared to Basecamp. First there is To-Dos, Unfuddle has Tickets which can be used as To-Dos, but with Basecamp I would have to find a way to manage tickets if there was ever a need for it.
Now the only issue with Unfuddle is that I can only have 2 users on the free account. Basecamp has unlimited users.
I’ll keep using Unfuddle for a bit longer as my project management tool to see if I can switch, but I’m pretty confident that I will use Unfuddle exclusively.