Ask HN: Jira Alternatives?

7 pointsCraftThatBlock5y ago8 comments

We (a start-up) currently use Jira, but we have an opportunity to reevaluate our tools. We find Jira very clunky and hard to use, although it's very flexible (though extremely hard to configure).

We have tried out Linear a bit, and liked it a lot. What are some other popular alternatives which are fairly flexible, and good for software development?

Ideally, we want a tool we can use long-term, is easy and pleasant to use, and is flexible enough for the requirements of a software team.

7 pointsCraftThatBlock5y ago8 comments

We (a start-up) currently use Jira, but we have an opportunity to reevaluate our tools. We find Jira very clunky and hard to use, although it's very flexible (though extremely hard to configure).

We have tried out Linear a bit, and liked it a lot. What are some other popular alternatives which are fairly flexible, and good for software development?

Ideally, we want a tool we can use long-term, is easy and pleasant to use, and is flexible enough for the requirements of a software team.

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florg5y ago

Compared to more modern tools Jira is actually not very flexible.

For me the most flexible and useful tools are Kanbanize[0] and Kaiten[1].

Both companies are engaged in furthering the Kanban method which also means they care about having a lot of features for displaying cards, limiting work in progress, defining workflows and have solutions for working together on bigger workflows with several teams.

I use both professionally.

A lot of other solutions have assumptions built in which really limit flexibility. One example in Jira is the coupling between workflow status and columns on boards.

[0] https://kanbanize.com

[1] https://kaiten.io

offtop55y ago

I really like pivotal tracker, I'm using Asana right now for my personal project.

I'd go with whatever's easy. Issue tracking which is too rigid ends up being a burden

based25y ago

https://www.tuleap.org/

https://osticket.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system

designerdonna225y ago

I used Jira a long time ago, but now we are currently using Restyaboard which is far better than Jira. It is flexible and has more free features to use. A better alternative to Jira.

https://restya.com/board

dzhiurgis5y ago

Avoid Zoho, it's slow as shit. Typing up ticket the text latency is nearly a second.

Kinda liked Assembla - doesn't look great and search isn't great, but it's simple and quick enough for most part.

dewclin5y ago

I've really enjoyed using clubhouse [1].

[1] https://clubhouse.io/vs/jira/

fedormoiseev5y ago

Height[0] is also similar to Linear.

[0] https://height.app/

yuppie_scum5y ago

Trello? I think it is owned by atlassian FWIW, it’s good for smaller projects

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