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Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

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

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Post by guptaneil »

codegladiator wrote: post #11
gauthamshankar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there kopiblanca, One of the founders of Zepel here. We believe JIRA and most other project management tools have evolved from the core use case of issue tracking. While they might be great for tracking issues and ad hoc work items, when it comes to product development, bug tracking is only a part of the equation. We believe 2 key aspects make product/feature development different. - Unlike bug tracking, a feature…

Product teams don't hate JIRA. They love JIRA. Engineers hate JIRA. From your explanation, I still don't understand how this is different from JIRA (apart from the theme).

I agree with this. OP, if you have 2 way sync between JIRA working already, then why not let the product folks keep using JIRA as they like and make a new approach that engineers can love and adopt without forcing the entire team to switch? Basically an engineer-driven front-end for JIRA. Focus on viewing/searching, allow the UI to be hackable/customizable on a per-user basis, etc.

Currently, you’re not competing against JIRA, but rather Asana, Basecamp, Trello, etc for customers. While not rational, a large part of their appeal is they look nothing like JIRA, which can’t be said for you.

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

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Post by Arubis »

atonse wrote: post #12
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…

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?

I previously worked on a team that used Clubhouse (clubhouse.io) to find this balance, and it was demonstrably excellent—to the point where I almost wish I hadn’t been exposed to it, because it’s made dealing with Jira that much more painful.

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

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Post by vasco »

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…

I use JIRA cloud every day and have for almost 4 years and it's never been slow. Is your company using JIRA cloud or hosting your own?

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

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Post by andy_ppp »

vasco wrote: post #26
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…

I use JIRA cloud every day and have for almost 4 years and it's never been slow. Is your company using JIRA cloud or hosting your own?

I'm not sure how we can possibly be using the same website.

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

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Post by cdurth »

23andwalnut wrote: post #16
rid wrote: post #14

Is there any chance this will be possible to self-host in future? That's a deal breaker for us.

I built a self hosted alternative to trello, basecamp, etc - http://duetapp.com I wonder if it's suitable for your use case? And if not, what I'd need to add for it to be something you'd use

this is really slick. any plans for an API for other integrations?

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

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Post by mrunkel »

andy_ppp wrote: post #27
vasco wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use JIRA cloud every day and have for almost 4 years and it's never been slow. Is your company using JIRA cloud or hosting your own?

I'm not sure how we can possibly be using the same website.

You're not. Jira is run over many different servers. I think that accounts for a great deal of the difference in experience.

We self host Jira and it's not slow for us.

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

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Post by 23andwalnut »

cdurth wrote: post #28
23andwalnut wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built a self hosted alternative to trello, basecamp, etc - http://duetapp.com I wonder if it's suitable for your use case? And if not, what I'd need to add for it to be something you'd use

this is really slick. any plans for an API for other integrations?

Thanks! Yes, an API is extremely high on my priority list. Zapier as well. Let me know what kinds of endpoints/actions you'd need from the API so I can make sure they are included. What integrations would you like to see?
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