# ticket by wedow

6 Hacker News commenters recommended ticket by wedow and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Small plain-text command-line task tracker that stays out of your way. One critic notes it relies on AWK and jq, not pure Bash.

## Why people recommend it

- Minimal, simple, human-readable, stays out of way (4 comments): "It's just a small plumbing utility that gets out of your way so you can get to work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487587)) "Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522381)) "It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846369))
- Widely liked by users (2 comments): "I shared mine [0] a couple weeks ago and quite a few folks have been happy with the change." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674106)) "I'm considering `ticket` to be a smash hit at this point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980744))

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## Cite as

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