The story
Three builders with experience at Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber got tired of slow project tools. They made a fast, opinionated one, and it grew largely on word of mouth from the teams who used it.
No. 045 · 2019 · San Francisco
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Opinionated issue tracker. Made ticket-closing feel good.
Engineers actually like it
Make my startup a legend- 1 Every issue tracker feels like taxes.
- 2 Three ex-big-company builders say enough.
- 3 Fast. Keyboard first. No spinner.
- 4 Opinionated: fewer options.
- 5 Closing a ticket starts to feel good.
- 6 Half of SaaS copies the dark gradient.
- 7 Almost no sales team. Barely any marketing.
- 8 Inbox zero, in project management.
- Founders
- Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo and Tuomas Artman
- Founded
- 2019, San Francisco
- What they do
- Issue tracking and project planning.