A small product team usually lives in a zoo of tools: a task tracker, a separate time-tracking service, a spreadsheet for hour reports and a chat that glues it all together. Heavy enterprise trackers are overkill and slow; lightweight boards can't handle sprints or time. Every tool comes with its own subscription, its own accounts, its own export.
We needed a working tool for our own projects and, at the same time, a showcase product that shows clients, live, how we build cross-platform products. We held ourselves to a stricter bar than any client would: one codebase for three platforms, production-grade security and real-time, with no "it's just an internal tool" shortcuts.
