Hi HN! We last crossed paths 6 months ago, when we shared Tara 1.0, a simple Jira alternative.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033387</a><p>I'm one of the creators of Tara, and with support and feedback from the community, we've been hard at work building this v1.5 release over 24 sprints and 500+ pull requests. Several of you asked for an improved Github sync, PRs and commits tracked in tasks, alongside a Gitlab integration. We've discovered from teams, just how painful Jira and Confluence can be for tracking issues, sprints and docs. Our requirements feature has also gone through a bit of a re-design, and with Gitlab, we've also shipped commenting, workspaces and teams.<p>As for why we're working on this problem; we just wanted to use something fast, with minimal setup, and built-in views for Git. We just couldn't find anything designed from the ground up for development teams.<p>Finally, Tara AI is free for teams and developers. Our free forever plan has no limits on users, tasks or workspaces. Looking forward, we're working on predictive functionality around effort estimation, release planning and engineering analytics.<p>Thanks for reading!
<a href="https://www.atlassian.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.atlassian.com</a><p><a href="https://tara.ai" rel="nofollow">https://tara.ai</a><p>Your branding is awfully similar to Atlassian. Not saying it's intentional, but considering you are pitching yourself as a Jira alternative, it would be wise to differentiate yourselves a bit more.<p>Specifically talking about the logo and color.
Why is the user in the "terms and conditions" called a "tester"?<p>> this pilot agreement ("agreement") is a legal agreement between you ("tester") and tara intelligence inc. ("company"). company is developing a software platform product offering for managing product development lifecycles ("company platform"), and this agreement governs tester's use of the company platform. by accessing or using the service or by clicking the "i accept" button, tester acknowledges that tester has reviewed and accepts this agreement.
> Our free forever plan has unlimited tasks, sprints and workspaces, with no user limits.<p>If so, what obstacles prevent from open sourcing it? At least the the part of functionality which is declared to be free forever?
How is “an AI for teams” a replacement for Jira, which doesn’t market itself as an AI at all? I’m looking at your features and I don’t see anywhere that AI plays a role in the core offering? Can you provide more info on how this is your distinguishing feature?
"Free" is the worst pricing of all.<p>Open-source is great. One time purchase price is great for products that don't require maintenance. Subscription pricing is perfectly valid for online services that are not open-source.<p>Free? Free is the worst. I don't get any trust that the service will stay around, it can completely change along the way to "paid", and I don't get to keep anything in that case.
This is a bit of a meta-discussion (apologies to the people at Tara, they did a fantastic job!), but is the market really large enough for the insane amount of productivity tools that have been released over the past few years? From Airtable, to Monday, to Hugo, to Tara, to Asana, etc., etc.<p>It feels like there's a lot of stagnation here, also. If I was building a product management tool, I would certainly <i>not</i> make it anything like Jira. Jira's a bit of a "dirty word," anyway -- it's a monolithic system that seems to suck more productivity than it generates. Where's the innovation? The last truly revolutionary productivity tool was Slack, and maybe Dropbox before that.<p>I don't mean to throw any shade at the Tara people -- it seems like a ton of work went into the product. But I guess I just don't really <i>get</i> the state of the market (even though I work as an engineer and am often-times force-fed these kinds of tools).
It's an interesting pivot for you guys from building some sort of recruitment AI (I remember seeing it somewhere) to this.<p>Would you mind elaborating this shift?<p>Anyways, Good luck with the launch!Will give this a go.
I was interested to test this to see if it could add some values to our team. And am always curious to see what other people come up with.<p>Oh I was disappointed. Logging in on a mobile device was already cumbersome. Finally checked on the desktop and tested a bit. But the UX is so messy! It's really not clean nor simple to use.<p>Would never want to use that with SCRUM. Just having to think about on boarding customer to this tool gives me headaches.<p>Recently, we have switched to <a href="https://linear.app" rel="nofollow">https://linear.app</a> (note: I have no affiliation with them). It's just super amazing to use, lots of shortcut, clear, dead simple, well documented. Perfect balance for us.<p>Hope this comments helps both the team behind Tara and some other looking at alternatives.
Speaking of Jira alternatives, I recently discovered Kitemaker [1], which is really nice. The UI is clean and it's fast too (has keyboard shortcuts for everything, etc).<p>[1] <a href="https://kitemaker.co/" rel="nofollow">https://kitemaker.co/</a>
Just wanted to mention Redmine, which is actually GPL and can be installed on premises.<p>Looks a bit dated and somehow hard to customize.. but at least you keep your data (ai models, you say?) you get to keep it when "free" is no longer a valid business model.
From the privacy policy: <a href="https://tara.ai/privacy/" rel="nofollow">https://tara.ai/privacy/</a><p>"THIS IS A WEBSITE PRIVACY DRAFTED UNDER U.S. LAW. THIS POLICY IS NOT INTENDED TO SATISFY ANY 'FAIR PROCESSING NOTICE' OBLIGATIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE UNDER GDPR OR OTHER APPLICABLE NON-US LAW."<p>As a European, it's very unfortunate that I'm not legally able to try your product.
When I click on “Release log” near the bottom of the page (which isn’t a <i>link</i>, BTW), it loads <a href="https://tara.ai/undefined" rel="nofollow">https://tara.ai/undefined</a> which loads the front page again and then changes its URL back to <a href="https://tara.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://tara.ai/</a>.
Hey, our startup recently moved to tara because we couldn't afford jira. Thanks for this tool. We've been using it for a month or two now and the task management seems to be doing fine. Not that we are that much managed, but still tara seems to be a good (and of course, free) alternative to get the things done.
Does Tara support a public facing board to capture bugs feature requests from our users? We would like to be able to link public facing issues to internal issues.
<a href="https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/" rel="nofollow">https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/</a> is a better option