Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

Post by e12e » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

dragonsh wrote: post #17

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That’s funny that people get JIRA to associate themselves with agile methodologies because theirs is one of the worst tools for it (in that the UI is this confusing herrendous mess). Whereas Pivotal Tracker feels a bit too “purist” in the other direction. Maybe this tool will feel somewhere in the middle?

Try Taiga [1] [2] truly open source beautiful system supporting both kanban and scrum style development. It's very intuitive with beautiful cards based interface. It also support user story point poker to assign story points. Indeed it can be projected directly on a wall screen to see a kanban board in real-time with customizable details. Also with easy plugin system, it can extend to integrate with other system in c…

Post by spullara » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

msla wrote: post #19

new_here wrote: post #8

Zepel looks great, a much cleaner and more pleasant experience than JIRA. Everyone uses JIRA because it's become synonymous with agile, so companies purchase and use JIRA to show that they're agile. In practice though, JIRA is ridiculously cumbersome and slow. It's time for it to be challenged. If you can market yourself as a simpler and faster way for agile teams to run projects, and deliver on that, then you'll pro…

The thing about Jira and Confluence which annoys me most is the fact it's possible to have useless combinations of permissions. For example, in Confluence, there's a nested structure: Pages exist in spaces. Pages can have more restrictive permissions than the space they're in, so you can have a space with pages anyone can edit and pages only a select few can edit. Now for the annoying part: It's possible to have perm…

Post by 23andwalnut » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

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Duet can definitely do this. It's self hosted though- http://duetapp.com Let me know what you think (I'm the developer)

This looks amazing. It appears to have absolutely everything I need. For $150 I'm willing to give it a trial. I'm currently using Pancake ( http://pancakeapp.com ) which is also self-hosted, so I'm fine with that. Duet makes me feel bad for Pancake already because if it's as awesome as it looks, I may switch my billing over...provided one thing... Because I work with an agency, I'm typically billing my client, who th…

Post by ska » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

MegaButts wrote: post #45

giancarlostoro wrote: post #5

This looks nice and sleek, I hope it improved upon the pain points of Jira and builds upon new strengths. The thing that kills me about Jira is the inconsistency I experience between projects. Everybody sets it up differently, and work based off entirely different views and contexts. It is exhausting and there's always too much friction. Maybe managers love it cause they got more time to waste on tools like Jira than…

I'll be the first to admit that as a whole, Jira is poorly used. That said, it's surprisingly powerful software. It's just that nobody takes the time to learn how to use it properly. Think of how shitty your first massive OOP language project was. Think of how different coding schemas and practices are between companies. Now realize that over the years, better and best practices have started to be established. Obviou…

Post by edmundhuber » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

awillen wrote: post #32

As a PM, I've generally used JIRA because most of the people using the product are engineers, and that's what eng management pushes for. I have generally found that most PM-oriented products like this just require me to duplicate all the stuff that's already in JIRA to the point where the additional effort just isn't worth whatever benefit I get. Given JIRA's ubiquity, I would strongly recommend that you build an int…