# Epiq 19 Hacker News commenters recommended Epiq and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 1.5 years (4 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Git-native, vendor-agnostic issue tracker kept in your repo with an auditable event log, though its terminal interface is hard for whole teams. ## Why people recommend it - Git-native, lives in your repo (9 comments): "Epiq also solves this with a git-native backend, so it is vendor agnostic and adheres to a issue-tracking-as-code paradigm" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337326)) "stores its state as an event graph in your repo, so it doesn't require a separate service or migration away from Github" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998181)) "It is git-native, lives in your repo alongside the code doesn’t require any external service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854078)) - Auditable event log with replay (6 comments): "It stores issues as an immutable event log in your repo, so you can go back and inspect the context behind a change" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874699)) "It is also event sourced, and supports state replay from beginning to end, so very powerful for auditing workflows" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337400)) "allowing you to time-travel state in a filtered view to reconstruct what happened, when, by who" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359825)) - Terminal board avoids context switching (4 comments): "has a more powerful UI story, being a TUI app, providing an issue board in the terminal" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947973)) "The TUI is so well made, it seems easily useable by anyone who seriously wants to." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158115)) "Avoiding the context switching to a web based tool is a nice plus." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155619)) - No write conflicts between users (2 comments): "Multi-user conflicts are prevented because each user writes only to their own immutable event log file." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155984)) "Using user-scoped immutable event logs to prevent git conflicts is a clever architectural choice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157440)) ## What people warn about - Terminal-only UI hard for teams (2 comments): "I don’t think it’s organizationally viable to force everyone else in the terminal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157037)) "asking a collaborative group to all use a TUI is difficult" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156271)) - Global npm install is a barrier (2 comments): "the installation instructions featuring "npm" as the first step, means a hard pass for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159584)) "global npm install is a no for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159337)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Linear](https://hackerapproved.com/p/linear.md): 148 recommend - [Jira](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jira.md): 128 recommend - [git-bug](https://hackerapproved.com/p/git-bug.md): 36 recommend - [GitHub Issues](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-issues.md): 29 recommend - [JetBrains YouTrack](https://hackerapproved.com/p/youtrack.md): 14 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Epiq", https://hackerapproved.com/p/epiq/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).