Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses but won't admit sucks?

  • Posted 3 days ago by fazlerocks
  • 27 points
Looking to build something open source and trying to figure out what tools everyone pretends to love but actually hate.

I'll start. Jira. We all use it, we all hate it, nobody admits how much time we waste updating tickets.

Did you move it to the right column? Story points aren't filled out. Link it to the epic.

Meanwhile the actual work takes 2 hours, documenting it takes another hour.

Half the team ignores it, the other half are obsessed with workflows that have 47 different statuses. But try suggesting GitHub issues and suddenly "how will we track velocity??"

What tool is supposed to make you productive but just creates busywork?

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