Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
This is a bit of a meta-discussion (apologies to the people at Tara, they did a fantastic job!), but is the market really large enough for the insane amount of productivity tools that have been released over the past few years? From Airtable, to Monday, to Hugo, to Tara, to Asana, etc., etc.<p>It feels like there&#x27;s a lot of stagnation here, also. If I was building a product management tool, I would certainly <i>not</i> make it anything like Jira. Jira&#x27;s a bit of a &quot;dirty word,&quot; anyway -- it&#x27;s a monolithic system that seems to suck more productivity than it generates. Where&#x27;s the innovation? The last truly revolutionary productivity tool was Slack, and maybe Dropbox before that.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to throw any shade at the Tara people -- it seems like a ton of work went into the product. But I guess I just don&#x27;t really <i>get</i> the state of the market (even though I work as an engineer and am often-times force-fed these kinds of tools).