What is Platformax?
Platformax is an open-source, self-hosted project management application similar to Asana, Trello, or Jira. It allows teams to visually organize projects into boards containing lists and cards to represent tasks, features, user stories, or tickets. Platformax aims to provide a free alternative to paid SaaS tools with similar features for task management.
Some key capabilities and benefits of Platformax include:
- Kanban-style boards to visualize workflows and work-in-progress
- Flexible cards to represent tasks, stories, bugs, ideas, notes, etc
- Task assignment to team members with notifications
- Time tracking on cards to log work completed
- Labels, checklists, attachments, and comments on cards
- Calendar and Gantt views of tasks and milestones
- Reporting and dashboards for tracking progress
- Native mobile apps for Android and iOS
- Integration support with Git, JIRA, Jenkins, and other tools
- Self-hosted on your own server, enabling data ownership
Overall, Platformax provides a free and customizable Asana alternative for project management and task tracking within engineering and product development teams. With its open-source model, it can match features of paid solutions without recurring license fees.