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No Atlassian products!
I'd pay for Trello, though I'm sure they'll ruin it soon. I'd take a pay cut to never have to use JIRA again.
I will assume you've experienced it used in large projects / environments. What do you prefer/recommend instead?
SaaS I happily pay for: - CloudFlare - Roam - Slack - Linear - Geekbot SaaS I’m okay with paying for: - Figma - Gsuite - Gusto - Stripe - Netlify SaaS I’d rather not pay for, but have no choice: - AWS (SaaS in a sense I suppose - I actually don’t “pay” yet, working my way through credits) - Heroku (terribly expensive and does not provide startup credits that they say they do) - Wistia (the platform is clunky, but the…
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Heard this one before. "Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew (the product we make) for the same price?" Apparently hundreds of people are happy to pay for quality indie software that solves their problems. We are among them.
"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew" No, that's not the argument being made though. The argument is 'why is a team of 3 paying 3x$10 to 'schedule meetings'. There's only 3 people, i.e. a reasonable questioning of the value being made. Honestly, $10 is not that much, but why on earth would it be needed is a fair question.
Linear looks fascinating. We’re using Zenhub now and it’s slow and misused in our org (one giant project board instead of separate boards per repo / project). Curious if anyone here is / has used linear and could compare their experience with it to Monday, Asana or Zenhub?
Using Linear on an 8 person team. Refugees from JIRA in the corporate world. Absolutely love it - keeps us on track across time zones. The one piece that's probably missing is a tie in to broader "roadmapping" software - I know what's coming in the next 3 sprints, but we haven't found a way to intuitively tie this to our 12-month roadmap - well automatically anyway.
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This is overkill, add 35% to the top and you will be closer (depending on absence/sick levels). Statutory allowances in the UK are higher than in the US, and in the UK for instance you would add: - 12.5% national insurance + apprentice levy - 3-4% pension - 10% of days as holidays - 5% of days as sick / other leave (dependent on amount taken in reality) - 2% payroll fees / other Note, this excludes training and equip…
That metric isn't just about actual payroll expenses, but also things like office space, janitorial services, etc.
While I think it's great you're thinking of tools to optimize your time BUT a team of 3 at early stage project/startup level should be a bit more frugal and look for clever ways to save the ~$200/month you're spending right now! I understand you have your own SAAS and want to justify subscription and this is a good promo method. I've written on HN before that I'm TIRED of subscription apps, specially per user subs, f…
Can you mention specific self hosted apps that you think are great?
For analytics for example you can save a lot of money without sacrificing insights or privacy by using self-hosted userTrack[0] instead of GA + Hotjar/FullStory for example.
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I'd pay for Trello, though I'm sure they'll ruin it soon. I'd take a pay cut to never have to use JIRA again.
Honestly was it your managers and the development pipeline you hated or was Jira really to blame here? I will assume you've experienced it used in large projects / environments. What do you prefer/recommend instead?
It was Jira specifically. I've worked in very similar environments with and without Jira, and at a place that migrated onto Jira.
> I will assume you've experienced it used in large projects / environments. What do you prefer/recommend instead?
Trello for the "who's working on what right now" part, even if that leads to having to copy tasks over from another system. For the bug-tracking part... honestly I was happiest using Bugzilla, though I don't know if that even still exists. For the roadmap part, just something like a wiki page, though admittedly a lot of that just comes down to not breaking down your tasks in too much detail too early on.