Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

I mean succeeded in replicating it, not necessarily as a business.

It doesn't seem so. I tested all I could find, LiteTracker seems the best, but still extremely buggy even in the initial demo project changing task status fails. The rest appears either half-finished, untrustworthy or has a very sketchy interface. But would really like to be surprised.

I am very rarely willing to pay for software and this is one case I really want to, but cannot find anything.

This thing kinda feeds my pet theory that the art of making functional software has been lost by late 2010s. People say Linear is fast but it's nothing compared to how well Pivotal worked. Any half-skilled indie dev could have made a killing on making a good replacement, but no one has been able to?

They spent A LOT of time building PT. It isn't something easy to replicate, especially if you didn't work at Pivotal Labs and get their knowledge of how to use it. But, you're right, I was just lamenting the other day that there is nothing like it. I wish Rob had just open sourced it.

I still like redmine

How much would you be willing to pay for a replacement?

We use Zube.io these days. Everything is just a GitHub ticket under the hood, it just slaps a PM friendly UI on them. I'm a fan.