This looks great! Any plans for Gitlab integration?
Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
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Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey munkay- we're free for unlimited users. Principally, we believe teams shouldn’t have to be limited by user counts when deciding which project management system to use. Most are still clunky and cap at 10 users for free accounts- planning to have a free forever plan for unlimited users (much like Gitlab). Paid plans may include functionality for enterprise teams, full fledged integrations and/or smart features suc…
Super amazing that you're aiming to have it free for unlimited users. I wonder if it's worth sharing prominently on the website a bit about the plan and an explanation of how you expect to fund this project. Without someone paying for the development it's not clear to anyone why this won't collapse and be closed in a month.
https://tara.ai/privacy/#Third-Party-Ad-Networks
I can't find anything on the website that tells you what is free and what you have to pay for after the beta is finished.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#73We've been using Tara for a while now. As a smaller team, we never had good luck with the hyper-complexities of JIRA, we were stuck with Trello (and/or a simple Notion Kanban board) for a while. But Tara's really worked the best for us. I personally, really like the personal dashboard for every developer on the team, flagging all your main tickets, PR's, and your teammates commits. I'm hoping for awesome things here.
That sounds like a more realistic description than "alternative to Jira". Jira is an Enterprise product which means it is designed to tick every feature checkbox any company could ever wish for. It integrates with whatever (Enterprise) ecosystem is around it. Tara sounds like "once you have outgrown Trello".
I think it’s kinda the opposite. It seems like Jira/Confluence doesn’t really do much on its own. Anything semi complex you need plugins.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#74>> Tara, a smart [...] alternative to Jira
If someone there were smart, they would have named it Tira.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe the problem with Jira is that bringing in an external consultant is the best recommendation.
Depends on what your timeline is for changes, but you can also learn how to use it and do it yourself. My experience is that if an org decides to use then they will do it wrong the first time without external assistance. This holds true even for popular tools like Postgres, AWS, Terraform, or even Git. Anecdotally, I don't know of any tool that is highly configurable that makes it easy for users to set it up and then…
I feel that Jira first adds a lot of restraints and red tape, and then makes those highly configurable. I prefer tools that don't have the constraints in the first place.
Ie if in the middle of the sprint a developer finds that some tickets are stuck waiting for some other team and he wants a column on the board to make that visible, he should just be able to add the column.
In Jira if I accidentally put the wrong issue in Done, I have no idea how to get it out... It's the complete opposite.
A physical whiteboard with post-its is rather good. You can use different colors, if each team member has one magnet with his/her name then it can't be on multiple tickets at once, you can draw lines and write words wherever, it's very flexible.
What an online tool should add, besides corona compatibility, is being a good issue tracker. Jira doesn't seem much different on that front compared to almost everything else I've used.
What Jira adds is lots of rules and constraints and imposed structure that gets in the way.
We are in the process of leaving it in favour of Github projects.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#76I've been using clubhouse for myself and it's pretty much what I need in terms of "advanced to-do list" but "not as heavy as JIRA". What I'm more interested in is how project management software like this keeps popping up and I genuinely wonder what the rationale is? We use JIRA, Trello and Asana at work and between three of them, yeah, things are working. How much more do we want out of them? Not much. Let's just ge…
I've tried 8+ different task tracking systems (though never Jira), and each has had it's merits, but has always been some critical feature missing for me. Be that custom metrics for sorting, performance, looks or something else. So I'm still shopping around.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#77As someone who makes this type of product, I tend to hate this industry. We make things far more complicated than they need be. It's all just ticketing software with labels changed and I just want a list of all the tickets for me to manually filter. I'm tired of companies thinking I don't know the best way to see the tickets I want to see.
This is an exact reason why I decided to make another task management tool (recently showed here on HN), where you can simply create tickets, assign tags and get everything filtered. I would highly appreciate feedback if you decide to try it.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#78We've been using Tara for a while now. As a smaller team, we never had good luck with the hyper-complexities of JIRA, we were stuck with Trello (and/or a simple Notion Kanban board) for a while. But Tara's really worked the best for us. I personally, really like the personal dashboard for every developer on the team, flagging all your main tickets, PR's, and your teammates commits. I'm hoping for awesome things here.
We have also been really eager to try Tara at our company. Everyone who tries it says this is wayyy better than Trello, Asana, and Monday. Glad to hear it's worked well for you.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#79We've been using Tara for a while now. As a smaller team, we never had good luck with the hyper-complexities of JIRA, we were stuck with Trello (and/or a simple Notion Kanban board) for a while. But Tara's really worked the best for us. I personally, really like the personal dashboard for every developer on the team, flagging all your main tickets, PR's, and your teammates commits. I'm hoping for awesome things here.
the hyper-complexities of JIRA
Apparently Atlassian was aware that most customers didn't need all of that so these days they are rolling out 'next gen' projects where one of the incentives was apparently to expose less configuration and make things less complex. The setup of a such a project is now a couple of clicks and the defaults seem pretty sane.
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#80Well done for getting your project out there ! I'm sure its great.
I've commented on this in the past. This is what I want from my "ticketing-software":
-I don't want 100 ways todo things or configure a ticketing tool...
-Sell me the BEST "Software Development PROCESS" with a tool.
-Don't give me a "Great Ticketing-System" !
I want to know what is the fastest, best process to develop software and track it.
All of "these ticketing software" starts with "track , manage , assign tickets" but leave the process up to you... I want to buy an EXPERT PROCESS not a REALLY GREAT TICKET TOOL with x10 options.
I always use the example of the "ultra high-end amplifiers" they don't come with a "Tone-Control" because these companies are THE BEST... my ears can never be better than their in-house "mozart-prodigy-tuning-expert".
Why would I soil my ears by thinking I can better adjust the "tone" of the amplifier that cost $500k :/ I'm buy FANTASTIC SOUND... not a great amplifier with 100 ways to get good sound.
Sorry rant over.. So... Sell me a GREAT SOFTWARE PROCESS - if it comes with software and a ticketing system... so be it. But make sure the software supports the process and I don't want to configure anything but user accounts :)
Sorry for all the caps... don't flame me :)