14 comments

  • Shank 2 hours 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.

  • e-brake 32 minutes ago

    JIRA and its interface is incredibly slow in comparison. An extra 30-60 seconds per task to create assign and organize

  • styrmis 2 hours 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 2 hours 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.

  • a2dam 2 hours 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).

  • jxf 3 hours 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?

  • donatj 3 hours 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.

  • sbashyal 3 hours 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.

  • bschwarz 3 hours ago

    CM42 Central is a workable replacement and FOSS but there's definitely room for improvement.

  • mfalcon 4 days ago

    We're using gitlab issue tracker and it's not even close.

  • latchkey 4 hours 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.

  • jonas21 3 hours ago

    How much would you be willing to pay for a replacement?

  • applied_heat 3 hours ago

    I still like redmine

  • cactusplant7374 an hour ago

    I really loved Pivotal Tracker but sadly a lot of people want to make everything so complicated.