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Tasks, issues, roadmaps, and the coordination work around them.
12 products, 4 Projects: 4 open source, 0 source-available, 0 unresolved-license
Documents, databases, and project tracking in one workspace
Notion's insight was that a document and a database can be the same object. A page can be prose, a table, a board, or all three, and the same records can be viewed differently by different teams without duplication.
Work management for teams that are not only engineers
Asana is aimed at the coordination work around delivery rather than at engineering tickets: campaigns, launches, onboarding, and the dependencies between them. Timeline and workload views are the parts teams adopt first.
Configurable issue tracking and agile planning at scale
Jira can model almost any process an organisation has, which is both why it survives in large companies and why it is disliked in small ones. Workflows, fields, screens, and permission schemes are all configurable, and each configuration is a decision someone has to maintain.
Spreadsheet interface over a real relational database
Airtable let non-engineers build relational data models without knowing they were doing it. Linked records, typed fields, and multiple views over one table cover an enormous amount of internal tooling that would otherwise be a spreadsheet or a small application.
Booking links that read your real availability
Calendly removed an email thread from every meeting anyone arranges with someone outside their company. Share a link, the other person picks from real availability, and both calendars update.
Issue tracking built around speed and opinionated defaults
Linear is fast in a way that changes behaviour. Keyboard navigation, instant sync, and a deliberately narrow feature set mean issues actually get filed, which is the hard part of any tracker.
Kanban boards simple enough that people actually use them
Trello is a board, a list, and a card, and for a very long time that was all. The restraint is why it spread beyond software teams to weddings, house moves, and editorial calendars.
Colourful work operating system for cross-functional teams
monday.com presents work as configurable boards with strongly typed columns, then layers dashboards and automations on top. It is aimed at operations, marketing, and sales teams that want structure without a database.
Issue tracking and planning without per-seat pricing
Plane covers the ground between a lightweight tracker and a full project suite: issues, cycles, modules, and roadmaps, with views that suit both engineers and the people asking them for dates.
Scheduling infrastructure you can host and extend
Cal.com covers the booking link case well, but its real distinction is that scheduling is exposed as infrastructure. Availability, event types, and bookings all have APIs, and the booking page can be embedded rather than linked.
Project boards that work offline and stay local
Focalboard is a board and table tool that runs as a desktop application against local files, or as a server for a team. It covers the kanban, table, and calendar views most planning needs without a subscription or an account.
No-code database and application builder you can host
Baserow is a spreadsheet-shaped database with the API and permission model of a real backend underneath. Non-technical colleagues get grid, gallery, kanban, and calendar views; engineers get a REST API and webhooks over the same data.
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