Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
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This is weird. It’s almost as if this is a sales pitch to non-technical management who gets to make the executive decision on what issue tracker to use.

That’s almost antithetical to “by engineers, for engineers”

If this project is driven by commercial interests, then the open-source spirit, if any, isn’t genuine and won’t stick around once VCs want the bait-and-switch.

Edit: the blog post goes at length to discuss growth hacking and “engagement”. The reason Jira is the mess it is is because they tried to accommodate the feature request of every paying customer

Edit 2: seems they are logging telemetry by default https://github.com/makeplane/plane/issues/1694

Edit 3: it’s possible this engagement story is to impress VC / funding first, paying customers second

Edit 4: I’m starting to see the other commentary about plagiarizing Linear in a different light, now that I’m cynical about the ethics and honesty of this project. All the non trivial contributors are exclusively from a country known for Infosys, clickfarms for social media engagement, gamifying the interview/recruitment funnel (see Grace Hopper convention). If this was a truly global crowd source effort as the GitHub stars would make you believe, you’d expect to see more geographical diversity. There’s a point where GitHub stars isn’t just a weak signal, but a negative one