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We're planning to support the web and other native platforms. I use Windows.

Which platform do you prefer?




I'm using Linux but I won't consider installing a native application even if it were available, or if I had a Mac or Windows. Web apps proved to be good enough for issue tracking (maybe I'm telling this to the wrong people given your choice, which I respect), my browser is open all the time and it has offline capabilities. Furthermore, it can be updated more conveniently.

Another point is that issues are useful if shared. I shared links to issues to customers and coworkers countless times and included them in reports. A web client solves at least one problem, maybe two. First, they might not want to install (or pay for) another tool. Second, Ship references issues with the ship:// url, which won't work unless you have Ship installed. A https:// url would work for everybody but then you need to share two different URLs which would be cumbersome. I'm sure you already found a solution to that.

Your site doesn't address explicitly one fundamental aspect: the data are hosted on your server, like issues stored in GitHub, Jira, etc and you're selling the service, or will be. Is this correct? What's the pricing? Thanks.


When I worked at Apple we used a native Mac issue tracker. It was much nicer than anything I've used before or since. I hate having to click-refresh-back-forward in a browser window, whereas a native client can have multiple windows, one for my assigned list, one for a search I did, then I minimize that search window and make a new window for a new search, then I cmd-H to hide the whole app without also hiding my browser.

At my current company we have an in-house project/issue tracker system which isn't quite as good as Apple's IMHO but very customized to this company's workflow. For my at-home consulting projects I try various web apps, most recently Mantis.


Linux please. If you're going to target the web, you might as well build a desktop app with electron[1].

[1] http://electron.atom.io/


Looks like electron could work with FreeBSD as well, so I'd probably give a +1 to that!


Linux


Another vote for Windows from me.

If you are planning on expanding to other platforms (iOS and Android, especially), maybe considering going with a C#/Xamarin-based project. It'll save you a lot of work by allowing you to re-use the underlying code for your app(s).


Linux support would be amazing!

But disregarding my preference, what is your analytics showing in terms of OS usage?


I'd love to see this on Windows and and least some kind of viewer for iPhone as well.


There is an iOS beta listed on the site now.


Linux or the Web, no real preference, I do all my computing on Linux except for IE testing in a VM and an Android phone.


Windows please. Looks great!




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