---
title: "How Plane, an open-source alternative to Jira, got to the #1 in project management on GitHub in less than a year"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-plane-an-open-source-alternative-to-jira-got-to-the-1-in-project-management-on-github-in-less-rrobt88v8
source_url: https://plane.so/blog/how-we-got-to-20k-github-stars
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2023-12-13T12:18:57.699Z
updated: 2023-12-13T12:18:56.839Z
tags: ["github", "open-source", "project-management"]
reading_time: 18
upvotes: 17
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How Plane, an open-source alternative to Jira, got to the #1 in project management on GitHub in less than a year

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 18 min read · 17 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Plane, an open-source alternative to Jira, gained popularity on GitHub and became the #1 project management tool. They achieved this by effectively leveraging GitHub stars, building a community on Discord, creating well-crafted release notes, engaging with Reddit and Twitter communities, and making strategic announcements on Medium and Hacker News.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://plane.so/blog/how-we-got-to-20k-github-stars>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@randy** · 1 upvotes

> Good for them... Just tried it out because I'm _always_ looking for a replacement for Jira. It's got a nice, clean UI, but is missing one _very_ important feature any Jira replacement must have: actual "change diff" for issues.
>
> There's nothing worse than staring at a +200-word description trying to figure out what has changed. At least Jira provides the before-and-after, which allows me to drop it into an external tool, like `wdiff`. Plane doesn't even do that. Yet?

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