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tegon

Tegon is an open-source, dev-first alternative to Jira, Linear

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Tegon is an open-source, dev-first alternative to Jira, Linear

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> Linear (whose design language you seem to have ripped off, somewhat poorly.) I thought I recognised the name. When it was first posted to HN[1] it was repeatedly criticised -- and seemingly flagged to death -- for being a carbon copy of Linear's design. After that the screenshots were removed from the repo with a "We are redesigning our product" notice[2] until this design was released ~3 weeks ago[3]. Good on them for trying to redesign -- I think it's good that they gave it a shot -- but it does still look quite similar. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40290735 (https://archive.is/Yd010) [2] https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/commit/4887ac7e678197f77243... (https://archive.is/MGHeF) [3] https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/commit/dafb4337f6a446dba328... (https://archive.is/ABXYk)
In Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear
By the way, you've left the notiz.dev LICENSE file in your server code, probably you want to remove that. https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/158b54af8d6f7cf4195c61... Separately, there seems to be a ton of unused or broken or dead code sprinkled throughout — for instance, in the auth code, I can't tell if you're doing basic email/password auth or using Supertokens and a third-party login via Google. You have code for both and some routes seem dead or missing. https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/158b54af8d6f7cf4195c61... Also, I mentioned the lack of documentation for how to run Tegon locally because your docs are entirely insufficient. The main docs page is just a README template. https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/tree/main/docs The quickstart guide has a broken link to instructions on how to self-host https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon
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/blob/main/docs/quickstart.m... The oss/local-setup guide is entirely empty https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/main/docs/oss/local-se... The oss/deploy-tegon guide does not explain anything and the script it references seems out of date https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/main/docs/oss/deploy-t... I'm done looking at this project. I strongly recommend hiring the best engineer you can find as quickly as you can.
In Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear
First, congratulations on launching. I think people are so used to seeing beautiful products these days that it can be hard to remember how hard it is to make anything. Nice work! With that out of the way, here is some critical feedback: - What is the pitch that you made to YC that convinced them to back you? The market size just doesn't seem that large and I don't understand what will differentiate you from Linear (whose design language you seem to have ripped off, somewhat poorly.) This post and the current featureset is vague and does not seem like a significant improvement. What is the core problem you're solving and why is that valuable? Your launch post above describes a lot of "how" but not a lot of "why". - Why are you bothering to pretend to be "open source"? You're backed by YC and you'll make money selling access to the product
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on your "Tegon Cloud". If you're really going to be open-source, you need to make some significant improvements before anyone would consider contributing. Some documentation on how to self-host would be a good start. Look at all the environment variables in this dockerfile — which ones are necessary to run this service myself? https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/main/docker-compose.ya... - If you're going to be "open source", the quality of your codebase and engineering skills is going to be a deciding factor in whether or not you get outside contributors. Consider writing actual descriptions in your pull requests, describing what you've done and why. Here's a PR picked at random — this is bad engineering work and does not encourage others to contribute. https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/pull/114 My advice is that you drop the facade of being "open source", hire a designer, and do some actual user research to figure out where people are actually struggling with their ticketing systems. The features you're building (automatic title suggestion, thread summarization, and "find similar tickets") do not solve the problems that I have had with ticketing systems. They're small, potentially nice-to-have features that absolutely do not help me understand the core question for all engineering teams: who is doing what, how will they do it, why, and when will it be done.
In Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear

Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear

Hi HN, we're Harshith, Manoj and Manik and we're building Tegon (https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon), open-source issue tracking software that uses AI to smartly automate manual workflows or provide more context to engineers for a given task. There's a demo video here: https://www.loom.com/share/b664b01e9b064a02be5791c12b77a107, and you can try out the product at https://demo.tegon.ai using these credentials: Email: elon@xyz.com Password: XfFNw6GwVJVQv6PA As engineers, our experience with traditional tools like Jira hasn't been great. It is slow, bloated and often acts as a burden to engineers. These tools didn't help engineers in getting the work done faster, they only helped the management in tracking the work which enabled a lot of processes and micro-management which used to kill our productivity. With the rise of LLMs, we thought
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about how project management and issue tracking would look 5-10 years from now. The current tools didn't match our vision, which excited us and started the journey of Tegon. We aim to build a tool where manual workflows are either automated or handled by AI. This tool will provide better context about a task to an engineer by smartly gathering data from all sources, helping teams with better prioritization. Tegon loads all the data from local (indexed db) thus making it super fast to load and navigate. We make all of this happen by real-time sync in the background. Tegon also uses AI to simplify the issue-creation process by automatically creating titles, suggesting labels and assignees and identifying duplicates. Tegon also simplifies the issue creation process from Slack, just apply an emoji to a Slack message and a tegon issue will be created making it easier for other teams to raise bugs or feature requests to engineering teams. We deeply value the feedback from this community and have spent the last month revamping Tegon's design based on the feedback from our last launch. We just got started and there's a lot more to come. We're eager to get more feedback and keep building. Let us know what you think in the comments :)
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Show HN: Tegon: Open source alternative to Jira and Linear

Hey HN! We're Harshith, Manoj, and Manik, and we're thrilled to re-introduce Tegon, an open-source issue tracker built with engineers in mind. Here is our demo video (https://www.loom.com/share/b664b01e9b064a02be5791c12b77a107?...) You can check the demo on https://demo.tegon.ai with these credentials: Email: elon@xyz.com Password: XfFNw6GwVJVQv6PA Traditional issue trackers like Jira can be slow, bloated, and bogged down by unnecessary processes. Tegon takes a different approach, leveraging AI agents to streamline workflows and empower your team. Tegon is AI-first - Blazing Fast: Loads data instantly from your local machine for smooth navigation (powered by real-time background syncing). - AI-powered Assistant: Automatically suggests titles, labels, and assignees, and even identifies duplicate issues while you create new ones. - Sm
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arter Summaries: Uses AI to generate concise summaries of issue activity, keeping you focused. - Natural Language Search: Filter issues with ease by simply typing in plain text. - Automated Triaging: AI saves time by automatically categorizing issues coming in triage What's coming next Tegon isn't stopping there. We're actively building features to: - Prioritization Powerhouse: Groom and prioritise unscoped requirements for efficient development (check out our GitHub issue for more details - Personal Section: A dedicated personal section containing My issues and My notes - Context Enricher Agent: Tegon Agent will flag issues with insufficient descriptions to prevent misunderstandings - Prioritisation Agent: Assist team leads in managing sprints by analyzing tasks, priorities, and bandwidth in real-time, suggesting adjustments for optimal workflow. [Coming soon] Key Sources Website - https://tegon.ai/ Demo Video - https://www.loom.com/share/b664b01e9b064a02be5791c12b77a107?... We Heard You! We appreciate your feedback on our previous design. We've spent the last month revamping Tegon's look and feel to provide a fresher look. Let's Build Together! We're eager to hear your thoughts and keep improving Tegon. Feel free to share your feedback in the comments below!
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