Troy McAlpin

Troy McAlpin

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I am excited to be back co-founding another SaaS company. Our previous company grew past $>60m ARR and was purchased. After a year off, volunteering at our local shelter, I am excited to be back working with a great group of talented builders. Atono (which means "unstressed") aims to simplify how cross-functional teams plan, build and run software. We like to think of if like if Atlassian were to invent Jira today...this is what they would build.

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Maker History

  • Atono
    AtonoPlan, build, run, and improve your product in one place
    Mar 2025
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 30th, 2025

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Troy McAlpin•

5mo ago

AI - should it be subtle or shouting?

We are building atono for builders. A design consideration is whether to subtly embed and include AI as a facilitator (coach, assistant, biggest fan) or to be more assertive, make features blink at users or just do it for them.

Example:

1) Write your story for you with ChatPRD or Help you write a high quality story that has value.

Troy McAlpin•

6mo ago

Opinions on the #1 disliked tool (Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey)

The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey of 3,000+ responses (July 15) finds the most dis-liked tool is...Jira.

My question is do you agree with the author's opinion or do you have other thoughts?

Troy McAlpin•

6mo ago

Item metadata (like in Jira) - need community input please!

We launched @Atono a while back and we're now building out a series of features to enable Jira users to bring their old data with them. Our Linear import was pretty simple but Jira is a whole'nother ball of string.

Context: Atono is intended to be opinionated, intuitive and go further than Jira. Think Jira + flagsmith + amplitude in one product for cross functional teams to get a job done without complexity.

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