There’s no denying that it’s still early days in terms of being able to match the incumbents in the space, which is why Plane has now raised $4 million in a seed round funded entirely by OSS Capital, a venture capital (VC) firm that invests in startups that create commercial open source alternatives to established proprietary products, such as Notion, Airtable, Calendly, Unity and even Bloomberg Terminal. Under the hood, Plane also supports bi-directional synchronization with GitHub Issues, with additional integration with Slack so users can easily transfer issues into Plane. “Then there’s the transparency of code, our auditability and our pretty open conversations for what we are building, how and why - this assures customers of our stance and longevity.” “That our software can be hosted by our customers on their own infrastructure, with all the protections from the public internet, is a key driver for Plane’s adoption,” Kurama told TechCrunch. But they all have one common shortcoming - they are proprietary platforms that lack the flexibility and code transparency required for many modern enterprise settings.Īnd this is where Plane is looking to set itself apart from the established incumbents, with an open source product development and management platform for managing “issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind,” the company proclaims.Ĭo-founder and CEO Vamsi Kurama says the number one advantage of being open source is privacy and security - companies can have complete control over their data, with full visibility into the inner-workings of the Plane platform. Plenty of other players have entered the fray in the intervening years too, from Basecamp, Asana and Linear, to and Jira’s sibling Trello. Companies on the hunt for comprehensive project management and issue tracking tooling aren’t exactly short of options, with the likes of Atlassian’s Jira serving software development teams well for more than two decades.
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