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The project management tool Height.app is shutting down, which is a real bummer - our company was one of the early adopters and we have used it for years. Height had one of the best designs I've ever seen, and I had high hopes for it.

This is a reminder that any service can be shut down at any moment, with no safeguards in place. It's also a reminder of the power of open source - something we don't have in this case.

I have a lot of requirements for a project management tool - most notably a solid API, linkable tasks with task IDs, and a good user interface. After this experience, I'd prefer something open source. Maybe Plane.so, looks very similar to Height.app?

Any solid alternatives to tools like Jira, ClickUp, Height, or Favro? I'm open to suggestions.

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Screenshot of a height.app front page, content: Height.app logo and login link Thank you. After three and a half years of being publicly available, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue operations six months from now, with the final day of service being September 24th, 2025. This is hard news to share, and I’m sure you can imagine, this is one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make. However, I’m truly grateful for the trust and support you’ve shown us over the last few years. Thank you for believing in a world where project management tools should be both flexible enough for the whole company to use together, and autonomous wherever possible. Building Height would not have been possible without amazing customers like you, and I appreciate the journey we’ve shared together along the way. If you have any critical questions or need assistance with the transition, please reach out. Thank you again for supporting us along the way. Michael Villar Founder & CEO
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Roni Laukkarinen
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Emails are bouncing back. This is really harsh, I'm sure the employees didn't know about this, because only last week we were discussing about switching to the annual plan. Why suggest us an annual plan if the app will no longer exist after 6 months?
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D. B. Stuck
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Some sales person saw it as a way to get quick cash offering the annual plan. Might have given you a full year if everyone took the annual plan. Who knows. A desperation move for sure.
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Roni Laukkarinen
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@MyWoolyMastadon I don't think so, she wasn't with sales, she was a really kind customer support person. I had been talking about this for a while. I didn't make a decision for a couple of weeks and now this happens.

We were in since the beta and when I emailed back to her the email bounced back - all employee emails are deleted. I'm quite sure she had no clue.

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D. B. Stuck
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Sad to hear. She sounded like a good support person. Everyone was blindsided.
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Amine Chadly
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I have used Taiga.io and found it reasonably useful and helpful 😅
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I recently did a similar exercise, looking for a new project planning tool with different requirements than yours. My conclusion was to go with Odoo, because of the good pricing structure, you pay per user, not per app used from the ecosystem. We did not do that, instead we are going to use a project planning tool that was already in use elsewhere in the corporate group. Fortes Change Cloud. I dont think FCC will meet your requirements of being open. But Odoo might do the trick for you.
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Roni Laukkarinen
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@ferrata Linear looks good, but it has some downsides. We need to invite a customer to collaborate, Linear doesn't seem to provide a way to do that. Also, it seems to be a bit too much for coders, we have non-technical people as well.
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Yes, it is opinionated, so it's a bit challenging to get used to it. And I think you are right about external users.
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Roni Laukkarinen
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@ferrata After some more testing, Linear is the best and closest alternative. I also found this and it works great: lindie.app

There is a chance!


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