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The most recommended of 8 project management software
Recommended for small teams that want task boards next to their code without running a separate project tool. Common caveat: the boards are often slow and laggy, and some items fail to show up.
Recommended for small teams that want task boards next to their code without running a separate project tool. Common caveat: the boards are often slow and laggy, and some items fail to show up.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good enough for small teams
“sometimes the overhead of dedicated PM tools isn't worth it when the team is under 5 people”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?” “I think a lot of teams can make do with GitHub Projects, they're pretty decent.”
Comment from 10 May 2026 in “GitHub Is Sinking” “For tiny teams, Github Projects.”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow, laggy boards
“I remembered one project I added over 20 items and then GitHub's Kanban started freaking out.”
Comment from 26 Apr 2026 in “I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards” “GH projects are pretty slow/clunky”
Comment from 6 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: I replaced beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker” “every action is really laggy”
Comment from 2 Aug 2026 in “The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago” Items sometimes fail to appear
“For whatever reason, projects don't work anymore. You can add an issue to a project and it won't show up.”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Ghostty is leaving GitHub” “I remembered one project I added over 20 items and then GitHub's Kanban started freaking out.”
Comment from 26 Apr 2026 in “I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards”
Other project management software people recommend
The four most recommended other project management software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub ProjectsThis page | 9 | 9 | 50% | 7 | — | — |
| Basecamp | 8 | 8 | 50% | 6 | — | — |
| OpenProject | 7 | 2 | 78% | 7 | — | — |
| ClickUp | 7 | 23 | 23% | 6 | — | — |
| Redmine | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
16 of the 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Personally, I find no need for external project management tools anymore.”
“they each introduce vendor lock-in to varying degrees”
“every action is really laggy”
“and it doubling as the memory system”
“Don't get me started on GH Project.”
“the joke became how complicated it is”
“I think a lot of teams can make do with GitHub Projects, they're pretty decent.”
“For whatever reason, projects don't work anymore. You can add an issue to a project and it won't show up.”
“I remembered one project I added over 20 items and then GitHub's Kanban started freaking out.”
“They’ve really improved Projects!”
“I got tired of waiting for one particular GitHub Projects feature”
“sometimes the overhead of dedicated PM tools isn't worth it when the team is under 5 people”
“The first thing I need to do after creating a repo on GitHub, disable Project in repo settings.”
“GH projects are pretty slow/clunky”
“Projects is built for exactly that”
“For tiny teams, Github Projects.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.