Hey PH Community 👋 Kat- thanks for the hunt! We're psyched to be sharing Tara AI - in its open beta. My co-founder Syed and I started noodling on productivity tools a few years ago. After interviewing 250+ engineers and founders, we discovered that most project management software a) takes a lot of time to configure b) is not built for cross-functional teams and c) takes away focus from the release cycle. The status quo is that engineers spend precious time wading through tickets, and EMs + PMs continue to lack visibility at the release level. This only gets worse with distributed teams across different time zones, and as teams outside of engineering rely on product to meet customer milestones and release dates. We've been lucky to meet others that share these frustrations and assemble a founding team passionate about the problem. As a team, we've been dedicated to designing a modern and simple interface, that just works. Tara is free for teams of all sizes - for unlimited users 🚀 In our open beta, teams can: -> Create requirements and tasks (in one scroll) -> View daily priority tasks and Github PRs in home -> Start sprints in seconds (weekly or bi-weekly) with ongoing team insights -> Plan manageable sprints based on recent effort with a smart indicator What's slated next: -> Multiple teams (growth, etc) can run sprints and view insights -> Task lifecycle (i.e. when is a task truly done?) and automated statuses -> More smart indicators, with improved effort estimation Thanks for reading. Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions! Gratefully, Iba | Co-founder & CEO

We've been day one users of the platform and so far love the experience. I've worked at larger companies where Jira has been the gold standard and once I moved to the startup world I quickly realized 1) I don't have the bandwidth to set up all tooling I used to have in an established product org 2) my engineers were on the fence about adopting a tool that required more upkeep and decreased their overall productivity. We still wanted some structure on how things get built in the company and Tara provided us with a quick way to jump right in. Personal most valuable feature for me has been the tight integration between requirements, tasks and sprints.

Tara is the like the wonderful baby that Trello and JIRA had when they finally realized neither of them worked well for startup engineering teams. We've been having a great time using Tara to keep our sprints on track. I can see our teams have little friendly competitions to complete their sprint tasks on time and get better at estimating effort for each task. This is the fist time we're seeing this happen on a consistent basis and that's been the most rewarding part of using Tara. Highly recommend!

New to PH but wanted to share the experience of a newbie using the platform. I for one have been a power trello user but over time it became more of an unmanaged mess. We got invited to use Tara in its early access phase and we couldn't be happier. Its bought in a lot of more consistency in delivering work in sprints which was also a fairly new concept to me and my engineers. It's also forced some really good habits of pre-planning and organizing our thoughts better before we dive head first into building things. Also being a part of the product this early has meant that our requests for features and feedback has really made our experience on the platform amazing.

We've been running R&D sprints on Tara for some time now and couldn't be happier! After jumping from JIRA to Trello to just a Notion Kanban board, Tara was finally the solution that is really sticking with us and structuring the work we do. Our product and growth teams are now itching to jump on too! Great stuff!

Here to share my experience as a designer who've been using the platform. I've been very stoked about using the product with new features being added almost every week. I typically work across the board with different consumer sites and having our developers on the platform has made it easy for me to organize my work and theirs. I really forward to seeing the platform support more of my workflow tools in the future!

Long time (10 years+) jira user. Looking forward to checking this out.

Awesome tool! Better than Jira.

Congrats on your launch. Just came in to say Hi and awesome job to your team. I've been a daily user for the past few weeks after being invited by my team. I really get the appeal, it serves well for our team size and we get more work done. We were on Jira Cloud for a few weeks before we transitioned as a team, good riddance because Burn down charts and reporting don't matter when you're moving fast 🏃

Love the UI - super simple and easy on the eyes. UX is also very intuitive, I'm going to enjoy using this. Congratulations to the team for putting this together! Will be super helpful with team management especially with how things are right now around the world.

Just started our morning to sync up with our engineers over a zoom call with our sprint progress view. I've enjoyed the journey of using the product so far and seeing how much of our feedback has gone into it.

I've seen this platform evolve from day 1 and its incredible to see how much progress the team has made and how responsive they are to customer needs!

Was referred by a friend. Logged in for the first time. Really like the design and simplicity. Also it’s super fast as in page loads! Great job folks.

Congrats on launching Tara Team! We've been an early access user too. My team and I have really enjoyed using the platform and the move from ClickUp was well worth it. I see a lot of comments from engineers loving the product but as a marketer and I've found great value in using requirements as well for planning out my campaigns. Really look forward to you guys building more features for marketers so that we can work better with our developers.

Awesome cross functional platform for teams building product!

This is a Jira killer. Everyone talks about agile, but the nitty gritty of actually doing it is time intensive upfront, gets complicated to coordinate and tough to maintain at speed. Many of the legacy tools out there are bloatware, require cobbling together with other solutions or have gaps in the flow. Tara is setting the bar higher, removing friction and getting distractions out of the way so you can build faster and with less pain. This is aimed at startups, but any organization with engineering teams needs to get more efficient at this. This is the product mgmt tool we’ve been waiting for!

Amazing stuff, great product. Congratulations to the team :)

With the features that Tara AI offers, it would be exciting to see the opportunities it unfolds. Could potentially be a game changer! Congratulations to the team 👏

It's great to see the feedback here and I'm not surprised how much of a difference the product has made in people's sprint productivity. I've been on Tara for about 8 weeks now, we actually started using the platform way before it had all the features it has today. We did start off as light users on the platform and are currently heavy daily users. As an engineering manager its really helped streamline our spec to sprint workflow and brought in alot more collaboration when we're developing new features. I've also really enjoyed sharing feedback with Derek and @syedahmedz who have worked with us to support a lot of growing needs.

Great team, great product !