JIRA ALTERNATIVE
Every other Jira alternative is just another subscription.
Jira comes loaded with fields, workflows, and settings nobody on your team asked for. We build you a tracker with only what your team actually uses — and you own it when we're done.
No per-seat fees, ever
Your code and data, fully yours
Up to 70% less than your software bill
BUILT FOR YOUR TEAM
THE PROBLEM
You're not alone.
If you searched "Jira alternative," you already know the feeling — a tracker that's grown bigger than the work it's supposed to track.
“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”
“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”
“It's just too complicated. It's a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira's roots are as a defect tracking system.”
“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”
“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”
“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”
“It's just too complicated. It's a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira's roots are as a defect tracking system.”
“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”
“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”
“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”
“It's just too complicated. It's a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira's roots are as a defect tracking system.”
“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”
“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”
“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”
“It's just too complicated. It's a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira's roots are as a defect tracking system.”
“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”
“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”
“Price increases every few months”
“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”
“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”
“Price increases every few months”
“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”
“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”
“Price increases every few months”
“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”
“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”
“Price increases every few months”
“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”
“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”
“Price increases every few months”
“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”
“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”
“Price increases every few months”
“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”
More settings than features
Your tracker has more knobs than your team will ever ship.
The renewal only grows
Every license renewal costs more than the last.
Admin-gated changes
Changing one field means going through your own Jira admin.
THE SHIFT
Renting Jira vs. owning your tracker.
No per-seat bill. No admin gatekeeping. Just a tracker with only what your team uses.
Old model — Renting Jira- Jira ships more fields, screens, and workflows than your team will ever touch.
- The per-seat bill climbs on Atlassian's schedule — not because your team grew.
- Configuring it takes a Jira admin, not just a plain-English request.
- Jira was built to catch defects, not run your sprints — and it shows.
New model — Founding.dev
- You own everything — code, data, and infrastructure
- One flat price. No per-seat.
- Change how it works anytime
- Bank-level security, built in.
- We build it, and we can run it for you, too
HOW IT WORKS
A proven head start, then it's yours.
Real engineering behind it. Your choice: hands-on or done-for-you.
Start from the right base
Start from a proven template with Jira's core features — one of ours, a proven open-source base, or built from scratch. An expert-built head start, not a blank page.
Make it yours
Customize it to your exact workflow — build the features yourself in plain English, or hand it to our engineering team. Either way you get engineering support along the way.
Own it for good
The finished software is yours — code, data, and a setup built around your workflow. Customize it anytime, and we can keep it running for you.
BUILT FOR HOW YOUR TEAM WORKS
Shaped around how your team actually ships.
Dev teams
Dev teams drowning in ticket admin.
Non-eng teams
Non-eng teams forced onto a dev tool.
One place for status
Teams tired of chasing status across five tools.
Jira alternative — your questions, answered.
MORE ALTERNATIVES
Other tools you can own instead.
STOP RENTING. START OWNING.
Own your tracker.
Tell us which tools you want to replace, and we'll show you what you'd save.
See how much you can save