HACKER Q&A
📣 andrewstuart

What is the SaaS stack used in your software development process?


I'm guessing almost all dev teams use Jira for bug and feature development and Miro for collaboration?

What else are you using?


  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
My current company is using Basecamp. I don't like it; it feels very disorganized, with work scattered across many message boards, chats, kanban boards, etc. Instead of Agile, it uses Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup), which has a "no backlog" philosophy (https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.1-chapter-07#no-backlogs). In this system, I feel like most customer-originated work simply gets ignored and forgotten =/ The idea is that important things will naturally get mentioned again and again and eventually bubble up, but the reality I see is that customers just get frustrated/disappointed.

In the past, most of companies I worked for used Jira. When I was the admin for it, I was able to customize it and make it work without over-complexity (i.e. dumbing down a lot of its built-in powers), but many companies don't go through that effort and end up with a super clunky implementation. And slow too, if they self-host.

I much prefer Linear (https://linear.app/) or Airtable for simpler workflows.

For collaboration (on what, exactly?), I'd prefer Figma for actual UIs (even if they're just wireframes or sketches) or Figjam for notes/ideas. Miro is way too slow and clunky.

I've heard good things about Clickup and Notion, but never used them professionally.


👤 tj1516
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