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Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by iba99 »

Hey folks. My co-founder and I started noodling on productivity tools a few years ago. After interviewing 250+ engineers and founders, we discovered that most project management software a) takes a lot of time to configure b) is not built for cross-functional teams and c) takes away focus from the release cycle. The status quo is that engineers spend precious time wading through tickets, and EMs + PMs continue to lack visibility at the release level. This only gets worse with distributed teams across different time zones, and as teams outside of engineering rely on product to meet customer milestones and release dates.

Currently- the tool helps run and manage tasks, requirements and sprints. With team level insights and a smart indicator for sprint planning.

This is our open beta. RN Github integration is live for PRs and commits tied to sprints- we're still working on Bitbucket and Gitlab.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by lidHanteyk »

Hi. I worry that this sort of tool does not benefit engineering very much; in my experience, Jira and other time-management tools are used to allow product ownership and management to request ever-sillier features, while penalizing engineers who do not make themselves legible with constant status updates.

When designing Tara, how did you account for the power differential between the employees who will be using Tara to record their daily work and the managers who will be using Tara to supervise said employees?

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by robotron »

lidHanteyk wrote: post #3

Hi. I worry that this sort of tool does not benefit engineering very much; in my experience, Jira and other time-management tools are used to allow product ownership and management to request ever-sillier features, while penalizing engineers who do not make themselves legible with constant status updates. When designing Tara, how did you account for the power differential between the employees who will be using Tara…

I hope you've at least read the first page. It doesn't sound "like" Jira at all.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by munkay »

great tool - congrats on the open beta!

it wasn't immediately clear to me that the product is still in beta, and was unable to find any pricing information which threw me off.

another question - is there a reason why Github isn't a support authentication method, considering that Github integration is a big part of the product?

But the tool looks super interesting - going to try it out and intro it to our team!

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by beart »

Looks awesome and I would love to try it out.

Unfortunately I work at a large company which has 'standardized' on Jira + other related tools. Now that the majority of work is being done through Jira, it would take a world ending event to move away, no matter how good of a product the alternative is.

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