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Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

33•admissionsguy•3d ago
I mean succeeded in replicating it, not necessarily as a business.

It doesn't seem so. I tested all I could find, LiteTracker seems the best, but still extremely buggy even in the initial demo project changing task status fails. The rest appears either half-finished, untrustworthy or has a very sketchy interface. But would really like to be surprised.

I am very rarely willing to pay for software and this is one case I really want to, but cannot find anything.

This thing kinda feeds my pet theory that the art of making functional software has been lost by late 2010s. People say Linear is fast but it's nothing compared to how well Pivotal worked. Any half-skilled indie dev could have made a killing on making a good replacement, but no one has been able to?

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mfalcon•3d ago
We're using gitlab issue tracker and it's not even close.
latchkey•4h ago
They spent A LOT of time building PT. It isn't something easy to replicate, especially if you didn't work at Pivotal Labs and get their knowledge of how to use it. But, you're right, I was just lamenting the other day that there is nothing like it. I wish Rob had just open sourced it.
jxf•3h ago
Pivotal was far from a perfect company (if there can even be such a thing to begin with), but sadly, a lot of good things were lost in its latter days. This was one of them.

Are there particular attributes, behaviors, or properties you feel are important that you can't find elsewhere? I see you mentioned latency, for example — what else is key to you?

applied_heat•3h ago
I still like redmine
sbashyal•3h ago
Project management is one of the use cases we plan on excelling at Proma.ai

We are launching in 2 weeks.

I would love give a demo to anyone interested. Email is in profile.

jonas21•3h ago
How much would you be willing to pay for a replacement?
bschwarz•3h ago
CM42 Central is a workable replacement and FOSS but there's definitely room for improvement.
donatj•3h ago
We use Zube.io these days. Everything is just a GitHub ticket under the hood, it just slaps a PM friendly UI on them. I'm a fan.
aaron695•2h ago
List of teams trying for reference -

"10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement" -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378925

a2dam•2h ago
It’s been a few years since I was at a company that has used it, but I very much enjoyed Shortcut (née Clubhouse).
styrmis•2h ago
My partner built Velocity Tracker [1], not a clone but it aims to implement the core philosophy of Pivotal. Any and all feedback would be most welcome.

[1] https://app.velocitytracker.co/

jdsleppy•1h ago
If you continue to not find what you need and are willing to be a subject matter expert on what Pivotal actually is (because I never saw it), I would be interested in building this. A lot of people share your sentiment so it could be successful, but it's hard to clone something unless you know the thing.
Shank•1h ago
> People say Linear is fast but it's nothing compared to how well Pivotal worked.

My company switched off Pivotal Tracker because it would slow to a crawl and require several seconds (!!) to load the page, with individual actions causing a DOM cascade that frequently hung browsers. Maybe it worked at small scale but it definitely didn’t work at a large scale.

cactusplant7374•1h ago
I really loved Pivotal Tracker but sadly a lot of people want to make everything so complicated.
e-brake•56m ago
JIRA and its interface is incredibly slow in comparison. An extra 30-60 seconds per task to create assign and organize

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