#OpenSourceDiscovery 82: Plane
Open Source alternative to Linear & Jira
Today I discovered…
Plane
A software development tool to manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps
💖 What I like about Plane:
No learning curve if you’re familiar with Linear
Look and feel of the product is pleasing, specially analytics (a key differentiation from other Open Source alternatives to Jira/Linear)
👎 What I dislike about Plane:
Unstable and has serious bugs - lost the issue draft I created
Conflicting info about license, GitHub mentions AGPL3.0 and docs mention MIT
The choice of technology could have been better. There’s no point of using Python for server side when most of your stack is based on typescript, Next.js. Now you need multiple engineers and multiple tools to maintain the project, and aligning them on the design philosophy can be an extra overhead. This might not be a problem initially but it will be a problem soon.
⭐ Ratings and metrics
Based on my experience, I would rate this project as following
Production readiness: 5/10
Docs rating: 6/10
Time to POC(proof of concept): 1 day
Author: Nikhil, @AnmolBhatia1001, and Plane Software Labs team
Demo | Source
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Next.js, React, Typescript🗣️ What people say about Plane around the web
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