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Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by taejavu »

mrweasel wrote: post #44
iba99 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For us, the key was to build a simple Jira alternative. A good PM tool should do the basics, and get out of the way. Personal opinion, so many PM tools tend to be bloated and each view ends up causing more mental overload for the team, EM and PM. We've tried to focus on speed with performance and keeping things simple.

Jira is a project management tool? I think that one of the only things we don't use it for.

It's a great operating system, lacking only a decent project management tool.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by dvt »

This is a bit of a meta-discussion (apologies to the people at Tara, they did a fantastic job!), but is the market really large enough for the insane amount of productivity tools that have been released over the past few years? From Airtable, to Monday, to Hugo, to Tara, to Asana, etc., etc.

It feels like there's a lot of stagnation here, also. If I was building a product management tool, I would certainly not make it anything like Jira. Jira's a bit of a "dirty word," anyway -- it's a monolithic system that seems to suck more productivity than it generates. Where's the innovation? The last truly revolutionary productivity tool was Slack, and maybe Dropbox before that.

I don't mean to throw any shade at the Tara people -- it seems like a ton of work went into the product. But I guess I just don't really get the state of the market (even though I work as an engineer and am often-times force-fed these kinds of tools).

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by viach »

syed99 wrote: post #59
viach wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I interpret it as "we will somehow monetize your data and train our AI model on your activities"

Hey! Co-founder/CTO of Tara here. We take privacy around your data very seriously. We're thinking about the ML training model as a "walled garden", ie recommendations are based on your past sprint activity, effort load, tasks completed during a sprint, etc. and are exclusive to your organization. In the future, if we decided to do benchmarking (for eg quick recommendations on how companies in your industry are runnin…

Interesting, just had this idea - would it be possible to feed the model with wrong data and make it giving bad suggestions to competitors who opted in?

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by iba99 »

mkarliner wrote: post #62

I really, really don't want another Jira.

Nobody does. It's ridiculous that it takes 21 clicks to create a sprint. We've literally timed ourselves in every Jira instance (cloud and next-gen), and every point of configuration, setup or action just takes hours.

A platform for productivity, should have zero to minimal setup, built-in views and it should work hard to get out of your way.

If it helps, creating a sprint is 1-click on Tara. And I'm hoping it stays that way!

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by jahlove »

smartbit wrote: post #49
brorange wrote: post #20

I don't see anything on the website about Gitlab integration

Gitlab CE free edition has many plan features https://about.gitlab.com/features/#plan including Milestones, Issue Board, etc. What features is gitlab ce lacking, that makes you want to use a 3rd party planning product?

sprints, epics, kanban boards.

They seem to use their "milestones" as sprints in the examples, but its a little clunky.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by jahlove »

iba99 wrote: post #22
brorange wrote: post #20

I don't see anything on the website about Gitlab integration

We haven't had time to update the homepage or the overall website, just been focusing on shipping early and often. This was just published - a quick guide on setting up the Gitlab webhook: https://help.tara.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360051704951-Gitlab-I...

"now with Gitlab" is overselling it a bit, no?

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by nahtnam »

iba99 wrote: post #13
poleapple wrote: post #12

Does Tara support a public facing board to capture bugs feature requests from our users? We would like to be able to link public facing issues to internal issues.

Not yet but it's on the roadmap! Several pen source repositories are requesting this feature as well, to monitor development with their contributors and we need to ship this. We've discovered there are very few options for open source communities to monitor and track/report on progress - and the cost for hundreds of contributors can become prohibitive with other PM tools.

And upvoting would be good as well! Not sure how you'd authenticate or maybe allow anon votes?

Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

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Post by rubyron »

dvt wrote: post #63

This is a bit of a meta-discussion (apologies to the people at Tara, they did a fantastic job!), but is the market really large enough for the insane amount of productivity tools that have been released over the past few years? From Airtable, to Monday, to Hugo, to Tara, to Asana, etc., etc. It feels like there's a lot of stagnation here, also. If I was building a product management tool, I would certainly not make i…

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