[HN Gopher] Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal trac...
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Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement
A lot has changed since the shutdown of pivotal tracker was
discussed here. As there were no viable alternatives it seems every
month there was a new project popping up. With the last month
before the sunsetting approaching, it starts to get exciting who
will make it in time, who stays in the race and what the
differentiating features of the projects will be.
Author : jFriedensreich
Score : 41 points
Date : 2025-03-16 13:30 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bye-tracker.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (bye-tracker.net)
| jsnk wrote:
| I am feeling nostalgic just looking at this.
|
| The year is 2012, rails is the hottest thing and mongodb is the
| inifinity guntlet scaling monster. BackboneJs and underscore were
| said to replace all jquery and we deployed things with just one
| command to heroku. The good ol days
| the_lonely_time wrote:
| cap production deploy still reigns king in some dark corners of
| the world. Also Hotwire is awesome if you havnt had a chance to
| check it out.
| slowtrek wrote:
| Serious question, Grunt or Gulp?
| bartread wrote:
| I still use gulp for a side-project: it works and it's simply
| not worth the effort of replacing.
|
| But I remember back in the day immediately preferring gulp to
| grunt once I became aware of it.
| Aeolun wrote:
| Those were the dark days of JS as far as I'm concerned.
| jasonjayr wrote:
| Of course! MongoDB is web scale!
| applied_heat wrote:
| I've been a happy redmine user for about 15 years. It may not
| look as flashy as newer systems but I appreciate the consistent
| UI which hasn't broken, and someone is doing the hard work of
| making non flashy but extremely useful things like e-mail
| workflows, export as PDF, git integration, etc stay working
| vishalontheline wrote:
| Make that 11 teams! :)
|
| I've been quietly working on oknext.io since late last year. If
| you're looking for an opinionated task manager for yourself and
| your team, then I'd love for you to check it out!
|
| One thing I love about it is that it sort of takes care of sprint
| planning for me. No more figuring out how much I can fit into a
| week - it does that for me, and seeing my progress over the past
| few weeks motivates me to keep my momentum up.
|
| It isn't just like Pivotal tracker - will likely never be - the
| estimation is in hours, rather than points. I plan on explaining
| the thought process behind this decision soon. And it isn't built
| specifically for software teams - I manage personal and dev and
| non-dev work tasks with it.
|
| If you do try it, I'd love to hear from you (vishal@oknext.io).
| alakra wrote:
| This was recently posted:
|
| Separation of Concerns in a Bug Tracker [2024]
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296422
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| where do those team coordinate and track their backlogs and
| sprints? ;)
| kunzhi wrote:
| Pivotal Tracker was built bespoke around Extreme Programming so
| no sprints.
|
| And obviously...they track everything in the tools they're
| building. :)
| Aurornis wrote:
| Can you at least link to some of the efforts? This post is light
| on details.
|
| I'm already seeing parallels to the MeetUp situation: MeetUp
| hasn't shut down, but it's becoming disliked enough that multiple
| teams are working on replacements. Unfortunately it seems they're
| all more interested in doing greenfield work of developing the
| replacement themselves when it would be more effective in the
| most dedicated contributors to the various teams were willing to
| join up and work on one promising replacement.
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| Related: "Pivotal tracker will shut down" -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41591622
| otikik wrote:
| I'm more interested in MilkyTracker replacements.
|
| Something that worked well on mobile would be nice.
| porker wrote:
| What made Pivotal Tracker so popular? It had story points front
| and center, was that it?
| stevage wrote:
| Huh, I totally forgot about Pivotal Tracker. There was a phase
| where every project I was on used it.
|
| The killer feature was the UI. When the alternative was
| basically JIRA, Pivotal was so quick and easy to use. That
| front page view that let you see every task in a compact list,
| and easily drag things around to reprioritise was pretty
| revolutionary.
|
| Now it seems kind of passe but it really was pretty excellent
| at the time.
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