Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by crossroadsguy on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:16AM (#48516075)

People who like Jira (or rather want; I doubt one ever “needs” this thing), and make decisions on its implementation and payment, and force it on others, are not the people who are shopping for alternatives. So who these alternatives are really for?

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by sambucini on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:13AM (#48516522)

i always quite liked the flexibility of jira and the ability to logically connect tickets etc. I can see how it's perceived as this clumsy corporate tool, but i often whish gh issues had more of the features jira has.

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:53AM (#48516354)

There's an entirely new class of people doing development with AI.

Presumably some of them?

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by brookst on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:15AM (#48517021)

I’m co-developing lots of projects with AI. Right now I have a hand-rolled backlog system that lives in each project’s git repo with a standard prompt on how to create, triage, and review backlog items.

This looks great for me. Better than what I have, smaller/cheaper/more AI focused than Jira.

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by paytonjjones on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:51AM (#48517345)

The people it's being forced on, maybe?

PM says "we're going to start using Jira", engineer says "how about we use this thing that looks similar but is not as terrible as Jira?"

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by subscribed on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:15PM (#48520985)

Oh, what thing that would be? :)

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by cco on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:45PM (#48521809)

Linear is both Jira shaped and less terrible.

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by subscribed on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:00PM (#48521923)

Notes, thanks!

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by andylynch on Saturday June 13, 2026 @11:01AM (#48517989)

This always irritates me, because it used to be just like that. First time we bought Jira, it was like a (small ) one-off charge on someone’s card, and included full source code to let you build it yourself.

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by subscribed on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:15PM (#48520977)

People in companies above 2-3 people have to use _some_ ticketing / task system.

I like Jira. Much more than Service Now

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Re:Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI... by jamesvnz on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:01PM (#48523148)

I make decisions on implementation and payment for our Enterprise use of Atlassian today (mid 6 figures per annum of spend) - and I'm definitely shopping for alternatives!

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