What are the best self-hosted project management software reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeuPingu · 2023-12-11 16:27 I'm looking for self-hosted [monday.com/clickup.com/nifty.pm](https:// monday.com/clickup.com/nifty.pm) solutions as I want to be in control of my data. It's to be used to run project for a small business and should include, at the least, some sort of kanban board. What are you guys using, and what can you recommend? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sky_Linx · 2023-12-11 16:51 I use Planka and like it a lot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wireless82 · 2023-12-11 18:22 Redmine and wekan; openProject. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eldiabolo18 · 2023-12-11 18:31 Openproject. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NMS-Town · 2023-12-11 18:35 Projeqtor has both Gantt and Kanban included for free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ZAFJB · 2023-12-11 18:43 Free or best? Pick one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dcabines · 2023-12-11 19:36 [https://kanboard.org](https://kanboard.org) has a kanban board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brock0124 · 2023-12-11 19:51 Taiga ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deityftw · 2023-12-11 20:14 Leantime ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Verbunk · 2023-12-11 20:22 ^ OpenProject +1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-11 20:30 I don't mean to hijack this thread, but does anyone know if PM software that includes, or can integrate with, email and invoicing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaronduce · 2023-12-11 20:30 +1 awesome software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeuPingu · 2023-12-11 20:31 Hijack away. Interesting angle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- finlan101 · 2023-12-11 20:38 ERPNext or odoo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nixellion · 2023-12-11 20:57 I recently did some research while looking for PM software for myself. Tried and ibstalled all the usual suspects: ooenproject, leantime, taiga, kanboard, plane, and some others. Settled on OpenProject. Plane is promising, second place, but not yet mature enough, imo. Hard to deploy, heavy on resources and does not yet have all the stuff needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CosineTau · 2023-12-11 21:10 We use gitlab at work. I effing love gitlab's project boards and issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeuPingu · 2023-12-11 21:54 What stuff did you need from OpenProject that the other projects did not have? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- new__vision · 2023-12-11 22:03 [wekan.github.io](https://wekan.github.io) or Planka for Trello clones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-11 22:33 That's exactly what's missing for translators, like me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-11 22:34 With Odoo, that ain't free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GWBrooks · 2023-12-11 22:36 Lightweight and gets the job done: Leantime. Heavyweight and all sorts of related functionality like wikis, issue tracking, etc: Gitlab. Both have a very clean UI, which was a priority for me. Wanted to love Open Project, but you don't get kanban boards in the free edition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GWBrooks · 2023-12-11 22:38 Not free, but self-hosted and very nice: https://duetapp.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CodeSugar · 2023-12-11 22:41 +1 but I want to try other to be able to see a board with multiple projects and tasks at the same time, maybe I move my projects in leantime into only one with different milestones to be able to see it in one board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-12-11 22:47 There are usually two 'main' recommendations: 1. [Vikunja](https://vikunja.io/). I'd say that it is enough for most cases as it has most main features people need and is very lightweight. 2. [OpenProject](https://www.openproject.org/). It has _a lot_ of features and they also give you professional support and features optionally if you need that. It has probably all the stuff that Jira has and furthermore some plugins and integrations. I'd even consider it 'too much' for most people. Vikunja is simple and still powerful. But of course that's just my personal opinion since I'm not a huge fan of Jira either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-12-11 22:53 Fun fact: OpenProject is a successor of ChiliProject and ChiliProject was a Redmine fork. Anyway, OpenProject has a Kanban board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tquinnelly · 2023-12-11 23:03 I've been using YouTrack and it's really great. [https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/](https://www.jetbrains.com/youtra ck/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- especialbird · 2023-12-11 23:17 Odoo... Definitely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-11 23:36 Thank you so much! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-11 23:37 But not every add-on is free, regardless of the version you have, and this isn't part of its core functionalities, afaik. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- water_we_wading_for · 2023-12-12 01:19 +1 I just deployed this and it was easy and to the point. I will say that I took someone's recommendation and installed the Greenwing theme along with it and it does look nicer than the default. Greenwing is maintained by someone else but the install was easy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- themightychris · 2023-12-12 01:21 Taiga is awesome if you're only doing software projects ---------------------------------------------------------------------- johntellsall · 2023-12-12 01:30 I haven't used these, but Nextcloud has: \* Deck (= Kanban): [https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/deck](https://app s.nextcloud.com/apps/deck) \* Tasks (\~ Google Keep) [https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/tasks](http s://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/tasks) I'll play around with Deck, most of my stuff could use more Kanban management. Deck looks basic but sufficient. Love to year what y'all think. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spiral6 · 2023-12-12 02:29 +1 for Planka. Solid kanban. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cdhowie · 2023-12-12 02:32 IIRC OpenProject does but you have to buy an enterprise license to use them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- finlan101 · 2023-12-12 02:39 https://www.odoo.com/documentation/17.0/administration/install.html community is ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fanyang-Meng · 2023-12-12 06:14 Odoo US employee here. Our community version is fully free ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirborneArie · 2023-12-12 06:52 Not open source; free up to 10 users: Jetbrains Youtrack ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EmanuelSchanderl · 2023-12-12 07:16 I don't know too much about the pm management part but maybe checkout dolibarr it's a full blown ERP/CRM suite. lots of modules which might have what you want ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _redacted- · 2023-12-12 07:24 \+1 for Planka ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bhavik-chavda · 2023-12-12 07:55 I've few suggestions, open-source and self hostable, \- [https://plane.so/](https://plane.so/) \- [https://www.focalboard.com/](https://www.focalboard.com/) \- [https://wekan.github.io/](https://wekan.github.io/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nixellion · 2023-12-12 08:11 Well, it's a lot of things really. Here are the key selling points for me. Other project have some of them, but it's about the combination of everything. - OpenProject is a mature product, trusted by a lot of companies already, with funding - OP displays tasks as a list, which I prefer, but it also has support for kanban boars and gantt charts. - OP uses markdown everywhere, which is my preferred markup language, and makes it easy to edit and move notes between various apps I use (like Obsidian, for one, I use Obsidian as Backlog for projects and once I start working on one, I'd like to transfer data about it into PM software). But it also has a WYSIWYG editor so non technical users can use it with ease as well. - It has a wiki - It's UI uses space efficiently, it has a modern enough look without being distracting - It has good UX, meaning everything is just a few clicks away - It has API and Webhooks, so solid foundation for integrations with whatever - It has calendar, not that I am planning on using it, but might come in handy - It has time tracking for tasks, with cost tracking, so for my goals it replaces something like invoiceninja as well - It is usable on mobile - While it does not have dark theme, it works fairly well with DarkReader So, while not perfect, it ticked these an other boxes I had, more than anything else. A little on why I didnt choose other projects (and see the use of word "choose" not "like", they all look good, just not a good fit for me). Leantime - at first it looked like a winner to me, but as I started using it I realized that it's UI and UX is kinda... distracting. Everything is all over the place, and I didn't like how inefficiently space is used. It's too 'pretty' in a bad sense. In my task tracked I want everything to be neat and organized, and easy to parse by looking at it. Here, it's not. Plus only the default white theme is somewhat usable, other themes look horrible. And it does not support Markdown, and it harder to use on mobile than others. Plane.so - as I said before, it would've won this race, and I plan to revisit it in a year or so. It looks awesome. And you can customize colors to your liking, I try to use Nord theme everywhere, and while it does not have Nord theme built in, I was able to make one in 1 minute, copy pasting colors hex code from nord pallete. It looks well organized, the UI is modern, AI integrations are fun. It's also written in Python with Django, and for me it's a plus as well. Kanbans, lists, everything. So the main things that failed it are: hard to deploy, heavy on resources(ish), it does not yet have time tracking, and I think it's API is not as robust and developed as OP's. It also lacks documentation. Which is not surprising, it's still at version 0.2-something. Basically in alpha stage. Taiga.so - too barebones for me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-12 12:35 Dolibarr... kinda sucks. Terrible UI, not much core functionality, changing and adding made into a nightmare... Me no likey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-12 12:37 Yes, but not all modules are free and the community edition doesn't include what I need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-12-12 12:42 It seems that no one who's telling me that Odoo's community version is free, has actually read my comment, in which I ask about integration with email and invoicing. I KNOW THAT ODOO IS FREE. I'M NOT ASKING ABOUT ODOO ITSELF, I'M ASKING ABOUT EMAIL AND INVOICING (MODULES) SPECIFICALLY. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FR172 · 2023-12-12 13:13 We are running both Leantime and OpenProject. LT for Software Dev and IT projects, OP for Customer Success and Integration projects (since it provides customizable views, e.g. a one page status overview for all projects). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vanekgsa · 2023-12-12 13:18 Plane.so is great ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UnseemlyCorgi · 2023-12-12 14:41 Leantime ---------------------------------------------------------------------- finlan101 · 2023-12-12 20:51 Oh lol, “that” was interpreted as the platform. Good old implicit vs explicit language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- somebodyknows_ · 2023-12-12 21:16 I agree on plane. Feeling the same. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alexanderadam__ · 2023-12-12 23:20 > While it does not have dark theme, it works fairly well with DarkReader This, but I guess [if it's voted enough it will be added natively](htt ps://community.openproject.org/projects/openproject/work_packages/3623 3/activity) I hope. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-12-12 23:24 This was the case until 2022. But they're sometimes moving 'enterprise features' to the community version which they did for the Kanban board too. So [from version 12.1 on you were able to use the Kanban board ev erywhere](https://www.openproject.org/de/blog/openproject-12-1- release/#agile-boards-for-the-community-version). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cdhowie · 2023-12-12 23:25 Oh really? Huh, we're using OpenProject and it's been locked as far as I can tell. I'll check tonight and report back. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alexanderadam__ · 2023-12-12 23:27 [I wouldn't recommend Focalboard any more:](https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/) > Mattermost developers will not be adding any new enhancements or bug fixes beyond September 15th, 2023. And personally I just experienced various unfixed bugs with Wekan but your mileage may vary. ;) I never tried plane, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-12-12 23:56 So either you didn't do any updates since May 2022 or you didn't check properly. For security alone I'd hope that it's the latter. 😄 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cdhowie · 2023-12-12 23:58 There's absolutely no reason for that tone. Kindly fuck off, thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bhavik-chavda · 2023-12-13 02:22 Wasn't aware of it. Thanks for sharing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-12-13 07:16 Huh? I didn't mean to be offensive. What exactly sounded like I'm insulting you? PS: Maybe it's a cultural thing or language thing as I'm not a native speaker? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cdhowie · 2023-12-13 23:48 My original reply suggested that I may not have checked correctly or recently. Basically, I already admitted that I probably made a mistake. Your reply basically says "yes, you either made a big mistake or a little mistake! Let's hope it wasn't a big mistake!" Aside from being _completely unnecessary_ as it adds _no information_ to the discussion, your reply boils down to "one way or another, you're incompetent." At least, this is the tone of the reply. When someone has already admitted that they probably made an error, this kind of a reply appears to be mocking or insulting. If we were already friends, this kind of reply could be perceived as playful ribbing. Without such a relationship, it's unwelcome. I can appreciate that English isn't your first language, and that you probably didn't _intend_ any offense. I'd just be careful when pointing out that someone else may have made an error after they _already admitted that possibility._ A better way to bring up the possibility that security updates haven't been applied is to _ask_ whether they have. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-12-14 08:47 I see. Well, 'adding no information' usually isn't very offensive in my culture. Apart from us being on Reddit. Apart from that I didn't even know that you as a person would be responsible of the OP administration. And how should I even know, since you were referring to "_we're using OpenProject_". Thus I could only refer by 'you' as in 'plural'. Since I expected "we're" to be in the sense of "we as a company". While English isn't my native language, the word 'you' doesn't distinguish whether the speaker is referring to 'you' for an individual or 'you' as a group like most other languages do. Having said that, I assumed that you (as a person) would work in a team that's using OP and somebody else is administrating it. I have to say though that I wouldn't feel attacked if somebody would say that to me as it would just be a hint and the second sentence just my personal thought of what I hope being true. Nothing else. **PS:** I started reading 'The Culture Map' from Erin Meyer and our misunderstanding sounds _exactly_ like something she described. Because I honestly didn't expect these two sentences to appear offensive in any way and I'm sorry that they did. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kooky_Connection226 · 2023-12-15 16:54 I highly believe that it is [CJPath.com](https://CJPath.com) but it is not self hosted.