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Alternatives

Products that do what 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement does

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.

  1. 1

    Find alternatives and actual replacements for B2B software

    2017

  2. 2

    Easily tie project details to your strategic product roadmap

    2017

  3. 3PA

    With Pivotal Tracker shutting down soon, I built Planisphere to offer a familiar experience for teams that rely on it. Planisphere includes core project tracking features like organizing stories into projects, prioritization, estimation, and commenting. I built this as a solo developer using Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, which means minimal JavaScript and fast load times. I’m seeing less than 100 KB in assets and pages loads in under 0.5 seconds for the project I’m using to track Planisphere’s own development. The major features are already in place, including user management, and I’m…

    2024 · planisphere.dev

  4. 4IR

    I've been running long duration coding agents with Claude Code for about 6 months now. Steve Yegge released Beads back in October and I found that giving Claude tools for proper task tracking was a massive unlock. But Beads grew massively in a short time and every release made it slower and more frustrating to use. I started battling it several times a week as its background daemon took to syncing the wrong things at the wrong times. Over the holidays I finally ripped it out and wrote ticket as a replacement. It keeps the core concept I actually cared about (graph-based task dependencies)…

    Jan 2026 · github.com

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    Ora323

    Agile task management, kanban, scrum, sprints and timers

    2017

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    Minimalistic progress tracking for teams.

    2016

  7. 7

    Minimalistic team progress tracking

    2014

  8. 8

    How distributed teams work well across timezones.

    2015

  9. 9
    Hivel192

    Build High Velocity teams

    2022

  10. 10

    Remote-friendly leave tracking solution for Microsoft Teams.

    2021

  11. 11
    ZenGile119

    The task tracker that you were looking for

    2022

  12. 12

    Time-tracking AND team task collaboration all in one place ⏱

    2017

  13. 13WV

    Hi HN, I'm the CEO at https://replay.io. We've been working on time travel debugging for web development for a while (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539247) and more recently an AI app builder that uses that debugger to get past problems instead of spinning in circles (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258585). We've gotten to where we can pretty easily build apps to replace business-critical SaaS tools, some of which we're now using internally: * We built our own issue tracker to keep track of all our development projects, tickets, bug…

    Dec 2025

  14. 14

    Performance tracking software for the Millennial workforce

    2016

  15. 15

    Visual release planning for Agile product teams

    2017

  16. 16AC

    Hello HN! I'm excited to share my product that helps companies to track their competitors, their website updates, new features, social media activity etc. I already have the first set of early adopters (thanks to a pretty good ProductHunt launch) who're using it on the daily basis so I'm excited to remove the waiting list and share it with everyone. Cheers!

    2023 · rivalhunt.co

  17. 17IM
  18. 18OS

    I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

    2025 · alternativeoss.com

  19. 19SA

    Hi HN, I built SubTrack to help teams find unused SaaS tools and cloud resources before they silently eat into budgets. The motivation came from seeing how hard it is to answer simple questions: – Which SaaS tools are actually used? – Which cloud resources are idle? – What will our end-of-month spend look like? SubTrack connects to tools like AWS, GitHub, Vercel, and others to surface unused resources and cost signals from one place. Recently I added multi-account support, currency localization, and optional AI-based insights to help interpret usage patterns. This is an early-stage project…

    Jan 2026 · subtrack.pulseguard.in

  20. 20WW

    Hi HN! We at Moment[1] are working on Notion alternative which is (1) rich and collaborative, but (2) also just plain-old Markdown files, stored in git (ok, technically in jj), on local disk. We think the era of rigid SaaS UI is, basically, over: coding agents (`claude`, `amp`, `copilot`, `opencode`, etc.) are good enough now that they instantly build custom UI that fits your needs exactly. The very best agents in the world are coding agents, and we want to allow people to simply use them, e.g., to build little internal tools—but without compromising on collaboration. Moment aims to cover…

    Mar 2026 · moment.dev

  21. 21WB

    Hi. We just open sourced Bullet Train, a Feature Flag and Remote Config platform. It's a collection of tools: server API, admin front end and clients for a bunch of different platforms. Together they allow you to control feature flags and remote config across projects, environments and users. We realised that we were building ad-hoc feature flag stuff into individual projects over and over, so we had a look around to see if there was a way of doing this in a more formal manner. There are a few commercial solutions around but they were quite expensive and seemed to be aimed more at the…

    2018

  22. 22TM

    Figured I'd track the popular coding agents to see merge and approval rates. At first I was tracking Opened vs. Approved, but realized most people aren't approving; they just merge. I haven't found a way to reliably track the other agents (Jules, Devin, etc), since they don't have a standardized branch naming convention. Interesting to watch this over time. Open to ideas.

    2025 · github.com

  23. 23CT

    for anyone else migrating off pivotal tracker (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607630), we built a crude tool to get your data out. unlike the CSV export tools provided by tracker, this includes comments. this is how you run it: PIVOTAL_TRACKER_API_KEY="" npx @tanooki/storyexporter dump --project -o my-project.db

    2024 · github.com

  24. 24AP

    As a long-time developer, I participated in many integration projects and we always had a recurring problem: monitoring and sending integration error alerts to end users. Based on 10 years and hundreds of projects, I created a platform that helps solve this, with several accelerators and cool stuff for developers. Some feedback would be great, if the tool makes sense and what we could improve on.

    2022 · tunnelhub.io

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