About Me & TaskView

Hi, I'm Nikolai Giman. I build TaskView — solo, in my spare time. I live in Serbia.

Short version of how this came about: I've been doing fullstack development for 11+ years, mostly inside product teams. Along the way I'd worked with every major project management tool out there. Each had something I liked, but none of them got two things right at the same time:

1. Permissions that match how real teams work. Some tools had no permissions at all. Others shipped a flat "admin / member" model. The enterprise ones had granular controls but required a dedicated admin to set up. I wanted granular RBAC — per role, per project, per action — that a small team can configure without help.
2. Your data stays yours. Self-hosted, no telemetry, no behavioural analytics on users, no ads — even where those things would help me grow the product faster. Cloud is an option, not the default.

So I started building TaskView as my own answer to those gaps. In January 2026 I made it source-available. Today there are 400+ registered users; a few small teams use it daily. I don't run surveys or chase feedback — I read the bug reports that land in my inbox and fix them.

This is a side project, but it's not a hobby. I treat TaskView as a real product I want to make better year after year. I'm in this for the long run.

Want to help shape TaskView? You're welcome to jump in — code, docs, bug reports, ideas. I'd especially like to find a designer to work with: someone who cares about UI craft and wants their work shipped to real teams who use the product daily.

— Nikolai