Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

#81

Post by kull » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC

It is super hard to switch to the new platform for bugs reporting / tickets. You just do not want to lose all the old tickets and then retrain your team, then there is a big probability the new tool is not that great after all.

We switched from JIRA to youTrack[1] and it was one of our best business decisions recently. It is not perfect, but we will switch again, only if a really superior tool arrives and when it is maintained with some larger company that we know will not go away anytime soon.

BTW. Zepel looks very sleek.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/

Re: Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

#82

Post by xxdesmus » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

The site is broken on iOS Safari with an ad block on. Not a good start. Looks interesting otherwise.

Re: Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

#83

Post by awillen » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 9:51 PM UTC

edmundhuber wrote: post #60

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…

What are those things that you need to duplicate?

Basically all the user stories/tickets.