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Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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This looks interesting (as does linear, which many have brought up). For kitemaker - you probably want a "pricing" on your menu - on mobile it wasn't obvious there was any pricing available (and we'll not be using a gratis service for something as essential as this). Is kitemaker (or linear) intended to also be customer facing? We'd love to switch out zendesk for bugtracking/support tickets, and improve our process v…

May I ask why you want to switch out of zendesk ? I'm reluctant to use it where I am (we have so many badly integrated third party software already...) but some people are pushing a lot for it.

We have modest needs from a ticketing system, no desire for customer chat - just email to ticket workflow. Zendesk works, but is a bit oversized for our ticketing needs (and slightly overpriced, perhaps - but not by an order of magnitude, so to speak).

We have a lot of history in our zendesk - and some of our customers are acquainted with the workflow.

I would probably not introduce zendesk as a new tool, but I do not have a clear recommendation on what should replace it.

At a previous work place we were quite happy with Trac - and I was a bit disappointed ttha Apache Bloodhound seemingly died off (it was in many ways an opinionated Trac setup/distribution).

On the other hand, if the other choice was a monstrosity like jira, I'd probably prefer zendesk.

I do think it's important to realise that support ticket (sub)systems are not issue trackers/scrum tooling - and vice-versa. Not all tickets are issues, and many issues are not tickets.

But if the two sub systems have some easy integration, that can still be beneficial. Just don't fool yourself into thinking that it can (should!) all be automated. Good support ticket handling provides real value both for customers and the development team.

[ed: maybe fogbugz warrant consideration?]

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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You're selling yourself as a fast alternative to Jira. There's already an established company doing that ( https://clubhouse.io/ ). They also offer a free plan for teams of up to 10 users. You're obviously in business to make money, so good that you're focused on selling your product, but why would someone pay for Kitemaker rather than use Clubhouse for free? Edit: Yes, Kitemaker has a free plan, but it looks quite l…

Google "alternatives to Jira" and there are hundreds of articles with titles like "33 Best Jira Alternatives". It's a massively crowded market. I thought clubhouse was that audio chat thing, but it seems they don't own an actual domain name for their company.

> I thought clubhouse was that audio chat thing

It is, but project management Clubhouse [0] has been around far longer than audio chat Clubhouse.

[0] https://clubhouse.io/

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Are there plans for self-hosted versions? That's pretty much the "if I will use it or not" question for me. Atlassian's killing of their self-hosted solutions for smaller companies is just really a shame.

We've been waiting on this a bit to see if there's much demand for this and so far the answer has been "not much" but we're open to the idea. So the answer is "not right now". Good news I don't think it would be super tough for us since we're built using pretty boring tech (i.e. not a lot of dependencies on a particular cloud vendor), don't have a bajillion microservices, etc.

Extra vote for this, my company prefers to keep the data inhouse whenever possible

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Do you feel this is appropiate? I am not getting this.

No, it's not appropriate, and it's dead and gone in 14 minutes.

Super sorry this is my first post on HN. Which part is inappropriate?

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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No, it's not appropriate, and it's dead and gone in 14 minutes.

Super sorry this is my first post on HN. Which part is inappropriate?

All of it. Wrong thread dude.

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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No, it's not appropriate, and it's dead and gone in 14 minutes.

Super sorry this is my first post on HN. Which part is inappropriate?

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