# Redmine

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Redmine and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Redmine as a free, self-hosted project and issue tracker that covers task breakdown and time estimates without the cost of Jira.

## Why people recommend it

- Free and self-hosted (3 comments): "Redmine is free, far better than Jira, and already includes the features you don't yet realize you need." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623121)) "All of my self hosted SAAS (redmine , gitea, discourse , vaultwaden , GLPI etc etc )" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926490)) "self-hosted redmine, gitlab & a wiki will get you the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054226))
- Good alternative to Jira (2 comments): "Redmine is free, far better than Jira, and already includes the features you don't yet realize you need." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623121)) "self-hosted redmine, gitlab & a wiki will get you the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054226))

## What people warn about

- Issue tracker can feel finicky (1 comments): "The Redmine issue tracker was too finicky" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250470))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [GitHub Projects](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-projects.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Redmine", https://hackerapproved.com/p/redmine/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).