I built a project management tool that auto-closes tasks on Git merge

T17R — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:32:19 +0000

I’ve been building Ventasso: a project management platform for dev teams that hate project management platforms.

The whole idea started because I got tired of switching between tools that all do the same 80% and still can’t tell when my branch was merged.
Also Atlassian/JIRA are just really user-unfriendly and not dev-focused at all in some areas. And laggy as f***.
So I built one that actually connects tasks, branches, and pull requests. Your work closes itself on merge. Simple as that.
Of course this is still a WIP but it's got a decent feature-set so far.

Backend’s based on my own open source PHP framework (BaseAPI), frontend is React + Vite + MUI. So REST API + React TS.
No funny microservice business. Just a clean API and an interface that doesn’t feel like punishment. It also has a API Documentation subpage documenting all public endpoints with API Token support. In case your CI/CD needs that. :)

What’s in it so far:

Boards (obviously)
Docs and Canvas (confluence similar MD pages + whiteboards for planning)
Automations (eg. “task.created → set status”)
GitHub & Bitbucket integration (branches, PRs, sync jobs)
Presence, notifications, audit logs, etc.

Right now I’m testing the onboarding flow and general UX.

If you build software, manage a team, or just enjoy breaking things I dare you to take it for a spin and tell me what feels off. Be nice though :)

Also not sure about the pricing so far, settled on $5 per user per month for the team plan.

Also have an iOS app with near feature-parity to web that's in TestFlight right now (with notifications etc).

Link: ventasso.org

Honest feedback appreciated. If you hate it, tell me why.

If you like it, tell me what made you not close the tab haha

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I built a project management tool that auto-closes tasks on Git merge