Plane: Project management tool from the future
summary
Open source project management product that claims to be a cleaner, faster alternative to Jira/Linear, built with Next.js front end, Django backend and PostGIS DB, designed for self‑hosting on minimal infra (2 vCPU, 4–8 GB RAM). It already ships issues, sprints called Cycles, epics as Modules, spreadsheet/Gantt/calendar views, APIs, webhooks and Plane AI, has ~14 releases, ~18K stars, ~20,000 cloud users and 177,000 workspaces.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27Why we built Plane
- 2:32Key features and layouts
- 3:35Design philosophy
- 4:40Technical stack
- 6:48Future plans
- 7:09Why open source
- 8:58Open source journey
- 10:26Results and challenges
- 12:14Conclusion
- 13:56Call to action
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