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

Post by yboris » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

iba99 wrote: post #16

munkay wrote: post #6

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!

Hey munkay- we're free for unlimited users. Principally, we believe teams shouldn’t have to be limited by user counts when deciding which project management system to use. Most are still clunky and cap at 10 users for free accounts- planning to have a free forever plan for unlimited users (much like Gitlab). Paid plans may include functionality for enterprise teams, full fledged integrations and/or smart features suc…

Post by lifebeyondfife » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:02 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #30

It’s a nice looking tool, but the marketing feels oh so very Enterprise Agile(tm) in ethos. “Run your weekly sprints on time” — as opposed to them taking two weeks? To achieve predictability, something has to give. It’s usually “learning” which is never on the plan. The next release will be done when the right top priorities are met well enough. When’s that? You decide by prioritizing how many priorities are in the r…

Post by sngz » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

derektwong wrote: post #23

cooperadymas wrote: post #13

How closely is it coupled with Github / Github issues? Would it work as a replacement for something like Zenhub, which is mostly just a facade over Github's own interface? Can you still add replies to issues directly in Github or do you have to do it in Tara? I would love to replace Zenhub, but almost every other tool would require us moving some key functionality out of Github. We still want to keep all of our issue…

Our Github integration is a two-way sync, so that you can import any open GitHub issues into Tara as Tara tasks. If you update the corresponding the Tara task, the corresponding GitHub issues are also updated, so you can certainly keep using the GitHub issues. The main benefit of using Tara is that it provides the team a much better way of plan upcoming sprints, and the system also pulls in GitHub PRs to eliminate an…

Post by Scarblac » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:53 PM UTC

bberenberg wrote: post #31

beart wrote: post #7

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.

Disclaimer: I run an Atlassian consulting company. In most scenarios I run into, "Unfortunately I work at a large company which has 'standardized' on Jira" translates into "Someone set up Jira poorly and now we dislike using it". The thing is that if you replace Jira with any tool you can imagine, the statement will hold true. Jira isn't inherently a better or worse tool than most others out there. If you're at an or…

Post by qznc » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

pj_mukh wrote: post #18

We've been using Tara for a while now. As a smaller team, we never had good luck with the hyper-complexities of JIRA, we were stuck with Trello (and/or a simple Notion Kanban board) for a while. But Tara's really worked the best for us. I personally, really like the personal dashboard for every developer on the team, flagging all your main tickets, PR's, and your teammates commits. I'm hoping for awesome things here.