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Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by kevsim on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:37AM (#23583122)
My startup is also working on alternative to Jira for anyone interested: https://kitemaker.co

It's really fast and tons of hotkeys and keyboard navigation. No need to use the mouse at all if you don't want to.

Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by spiderjako22 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:43AM (#23583372)
Hey, I'd be glad to include your tool in the list during my next update.
Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by kevsim on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:37PM (#23586479)
That’d be great!
Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by gshdg on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:30AM (#23584482)
Looks interesting but there’s zero info on your site (at least in mobile) about its features. It looks a lot like Trello from the screenshots. How does it differ?
Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by kevsim on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:48PM (#23586614)
Yeah, our landing page admittedly needs some love. Actually top of our list right now. And the board does look like Trello but so do most boards (we also have a list view of the issues if you prefer that but it's new so no screenshot on the site just yet).

In terms of differentiating features from Trello:

- we have more structure. We have themes (like Jira epics) and a roadmap view for giving a big picture overview of what's going on. Also software development specific features like effort and impact estimation (small, medium and large aka t-shirt sizes)

- the aforementioned hotkeys and key nav. We love using Superhuman for email and we put a lot of love into making the product keyboard friendly

- our issues are richer than Trello cards. Our document editor feels a lot like Notion documents. We also have threaded comments

- our integrations are getting better all the time. You can mention issues from GitHub and see the commit messages in Kitemaker, you can set up automation rules to automatically move issues in the board. You can embed Figma designs and we're about to launch a Slack integration. And more integrations in the pipeline

It's still a young product, but we're adding features every week and onboarding more and more teams. If people are using Trello or GitHub issues, they can use our importer and try it out quickly with their own data. We'd love to hear any feedback you might have.

Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by gshdg on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:35PM (#23587526)
Thanks for the info. What search / filter features are available?

Also, what’s the pricing model? And how do I get my data back out?

Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by kevsim on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:41PM (#23588034)
Search is currently a fuzzy text search on issue titles, labels, etc. Lots of plans to improve it. Filtering is quite full featured. Can filter on labels, assignees, themes, created date, free text etc.

No way to get data out yet (besides asking nicely) but it’s coming. Developer API very soon as well as exporters for every system we have importers for

Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by gshdg on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:53PM (#23588748)
And... I assume you’ll eventually start charging for it?
Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by kevsim on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:18PM (#23593448)
Sorry! Missed that part of your question.

There will always be a free tier (mostly likely for 6 users). Then it’ll be something like $10 per user per month which we think is pretty standard in this segment

Re:Jira alternatives (ultimate break down) – not biased by gshdg on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:40PM (#23616378)
Thank you!