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Mattermost isn't actually all that bad and its mental model is pretty close to Slack, at least compared to Zulip. I actually prefer Mattermost to Teams, and would view it in the same ballpark as Slack. > Deployment of such stacks was a problem. A complicate operational overhead. Not at all! Their stack is actually very reasonable and quite ea", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model"}, {"id": 772851652, "item_id": 48303228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303228", "by": "dqv", "date": "2026-05-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it will probably be OpenProject, which was the runner up", "excerpt": "I couldn't believe how shitty ClickUp was when I was demoing project management software because it came highly recommended. Actually most of them were shitty. Monday, Asana, and all the others I can't remember. Just absolutely dog slow. I am so confused at how people are productive with these apps. By the time things had loaded, I had already forgotten what I was trying to do. 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Have you been using the Claude Code/which ever tool you use to read and write from OpenProject directly? I do like self-hosting data like this. I used to self-host Jira back in the day.", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted project management", "switched_from": "", "story": "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"}, {"id": 761033696, "item_id": 47564606, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564606", "by": "beerws", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Berlin-based OpenProject might be a suitable and mature Jira-alternative for you", "excerpt": "I of course do not know your specific usage and requirements, but Berlin-based OpenProject might be a suitable and mature Jira-alternative for you - in addition to being outside US jurisdiction their services are available both on-prem/self-hosted and cloud-based. They even have a specific Jira-migration tool: https://www.openproject.org/docs/installation-and-operations/jira-migration/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Say No to Palantir in Europe"}, {"id": 757033602, "item_id": 47314600, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314600", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2026-03-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the slowness of Jira, OpenProject", "excerpt": "I think a container of Kanboard https://kanboard.org/ and an MCP integration would achieve something similar - mostly cause when I think of project management tools that is the only one that actually feels insanely snappy, compared to the slowness of Jira, OpenProject and tbh Trello is also slower. Would actually be cool to have more local tools like that, that something like Claude Code can integrate with. 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