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
#2Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387
I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab integration. We've discovered from teams, just how painful Jira and Confluence can be for tracking issues, sprints and docs. Our requirements feature has also gone through a bit of a re-design, and with Gitlab, we've also shipped commenting, workspaces and teams.
As for why we're working on this problem; we just wanted to use something fast, with minimal setup, and built-in views for Git. We just couldn't find anything designed from the ground up for development teams.
Finally, Tara AI is free for teams and developers. Our free forever plan has no limits on users, tasks or workspaces. Looking forward, we're working on predictive functionality around effort estimation, release planning and engineering analytics.
Thanks for reading!
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#3Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387 I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab in…
Just signed up and so far everything worked well. Couple tweaks, you may want to use more than 1 letter for the workspace name icon in the left menu when a user has a few workspaces since naming is unpredictable.
There is also a lot of whitespace between welcome username, and the getting started copy on the page.
The home icon and the logo in the left nav do the same thing not sure if you need both.
Create task in the backlog should stand out more, I'm a PM and that is probably one of the most used options. Is there an option to add time to a task or urgency?
Hope this helps, looks like a great start.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#4Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387 I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab in…
Can I be the first to ask _how_ it's free?
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#5Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387 I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab in…
Thanks for sharing. I'm curious about the GitLab integration, is there a page on your website describing it in more detail?
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#6Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387 I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab in…
Just signed up and so far everything worked well. Couple tweaks, you may want to use more than 1 letter for the workspace name icon in the left menu when a user has a few workspaces since naming is unpredictable. There is also a lot of whitespace between welcome username, and the getting started copy on the page. The home icon and the logo in the left nav do the same thing not sure if you need both. Create task in th…
Hey! So we had the option for a min char count, but users wanted to have one letter workspaces (for fun I guess?). We need to revamp our navigation anyway since it's hard to know where to click to change workspaces.
Good point on the whitespace- will take a look.
As for creating tasks- we're thinking of a sticky area on the left (that's always on) to create tasks.
For priority- we're releasing labels in 3 weeks. You should be able to assign #P1 or priority overall on different sets of tasks. That being said- we are considering adding some form of auto recognition or NLP to suggest priority and labels automatically based on past tasks. For time, we have 3 effort options (points, hours or days), we kept it simple to create a standup view where you can see how engineers track throughout the week.
Let us know which other parts may be tedious. We have more work to do!
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#7Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387 I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab in…
Can I be the first to ask _how_ it's free?
The website mentions in the pricing popup:
>We are working on functionality for teams that provides visibility and predictability in product development. Features may include automation around sprints and multi-team workflows. This will be part of our premium plan, and is where the AI comes into play.
I've also been hurt by free tools that disappear after we commit to them but since Tara did AI stuff for PM in the past maybe they already have it in the roadmap.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#8Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387 I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab in…
Thanks for sharing. I'm curious about the GitLab integration, is there a page on your website describing it in more detail?
Just made this live: https://help.tara.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360051704951-Gitlab-I...
Basically, RN its a webhook. Once active, you can view merge requests related to a task, when synced. Over time, we should be releasing a full fledged Gitlab bi-directional sync and app (similar to our Github app here: https://github.com/marketplace/tara-ai)
Our Github app also allows you to view stale PRs that are blocking the sprint. We should have similar functionality for Gitlab over the next few wks.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I be the first to ask _how_ it's free?
The website mentions in the pricing popup: >We are working on functionality for teams that provides visibility and predictability in product development. Features may include automation around sprints and multi-team workflows. This will be part of our premium plan, and is where the AI comes into play. I've also been hurt by free tools that disappear after we commit to them but since Tara did AI stuff for PM in the pa…
Thanks
Re: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
#10This thing is in absolutely no way a Jira alternative.
(YouTrack is the Jira alternative, but it's not free.)