Ask HN: best way to manage communication on a small coding project

The question is, how elaborate you want it to be. And how far the distance is, between your teammates.

If you are able to meet and you "just" need a way, to track status-updates, perhaps updating the readme on git would be enough (if everyone read it).

Or you could use a small and nice project-management-tool like Splendid Bacon (https://splendidbacon.com/)

You could use Skype (or anything like that) to discuss things (if you are far away from each other), if you can't meet in person.

Or - if you all have an email-adress with the same domain-name - you could use yammer to chat/discuss, make planing documents, and so forth... (http://yammer.com/)

We've been using 37 Signals https://launchpad.37signals.com/signin, which has worked great and we send emails constantly (saving docs/files with a date for easy reference)

Try Yammer, it works great for small teams (I am biased, I am the UX/UI designer at Yammer)

Just talk to each other.