Troy McAlpin

Troy McAlpin

AtonoAtono
Founder, exec, investor

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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.

Yaroslav Chuykov•

6mo ago

🔥 How long is your streak?

Mine s at 858 days and it s personal.

Currently sitting at 858 days which puts me at #29 on the Product Hunt streak leaderboard.

Emiley Stake•

6mo ago

What’s one business tool you can’t live without—but nobody talks about?

We always hear about the big names Slack, Notion, Trello, etc. but I feel like the most useful tools in business are often the quiet ones. The ones that just work, save time, and don t need a 10-minute tutorial to figure out. I m curious what s that underrated tool you use every day but rarely see mentioned? Could be a small Chrome extension, a no-code tool, a shortcut, or even a weird system you came up with on your own. I ve personally found more value in low-key tools shared by real users than in most top 10 lists online. So I figured I'd ask here and hopefully we all discover a few new gems. Drop your answer below bonus points if you say why it works so well for you. Always looking for ways to make things smoother without overcomplicating the stack. Let s build a thread of tools that actually make a difference.
Product Huntp/producthuntAaron O'Leary•

9mo ago

🚨 Community landing page roast: give a roast, get a roast 🚨

Let s bring back everyone s favorite kind of feedback: brutally honest and weirdly helpful.
Drop a link to your landing page in the comments. Then roast someone else s. Keep it real, keep it useful, keep it (mostly) kind

We re talking:

  • What s confusing?

  • What s missing?

  • What s great but buried?

  • Would you actually sign up or bounce?

The rules:

Atonop/atonoTroy McAlpin•

10mo ago

The customer is not always right - AMA w/ CEO of atono

Hey all - Troy McAlpin, CEO and co-founder of atono here.

In our last $70M ARR SaaS venture, we learned the hard way: the customer is not always right.

Atonop/atonoTroy McAlpin•

10mo ago

The customer is not always right - AMA w/ CEO of atono

Hey all - Troy McAlpin, CEO and co-founder of atono here.

In our last $70M ARR SaaS venture, we learned the hard way: the customer is not always right.

Atonop/atonoTroy McAlpin•

10mo ago

The customer is not always right - AMA w/ CEO of atono

Hey all - Troy McAlpin, CEO and co-founder of atono here.

In our last $70M ARR SaaS venture, we learned the hard way: the customer is not always right.

Troy McAlpin•

10mo ago

Hi PH! T minus 3 days to launch! 🚀 🚀 🚀 

Hi Product Hunt!

When I founded my last company, xMatters (an incident management solution), our DevOps teams relied on over a dozen tools from different vendors to build our product (Jira was a project all by itself). It felt like a never-ending assembly line of inboxes, endless Slack threads, and tasks piling up. Each tool was disconnected, and every role PMs, devs, QA worked in silos with no visibility into each other s work.

Linearp/linearLeeann Trang•

10mo ago

Startups using Linear - is it a company wide project mgmt system, or do you use other tools too?

We made a move to @Linear at Product Hunt within the past 6 months. Curious if other startups using @Linear have adopted it company wide. Or is it primarily used by the EPD team and the rest of the company uses different PM tools? And if so, how is it working?

We were previously on @Asana . I like to say I am tool-agnostic, and can adapt our company processes to whatever tool the team will use, but with many project management tools, I had my love/hate relationship with Asana. @Notion works well as our homebase for company and project documentation, brainstorming, etc. and can even work for simple task/project management (I love their inline databases). But if you're looking for more robust tools, I haven't seen Notion up to the task. I have also tried@Trello , @Todoist , @Basecamp , @ClickUp etc at other companies.

fmerian•

10mo ago

Who's launching a developer tool? [March 2025]

Drop a link to your dev-first product launch in the comments.
Let's support developer tools
Upcoming dev-first product launches:

  • @Producta launched on March 4

  • @Pieces for Developers launched on March 5

  • @MotherDuck launched on March 13

  • @Portkey launched on March 17

  • @Bucket launched on March 18

  • @Novu launched on March 18

  • @Tinybird launched on March 18

  • @Lamatic.ai launched on March 24

  • @Inferless launched on March 25

  • @Meilisearch launched on March 25

  • @Pulse launched on March 26

  • @Atono launched on March 27

Nika•

10mo ago

All teams that work remotely: How do you improve your company culture?

You barely see in person and sometimes, when you are international in different time zones, you are barely on video meetings + some people working at home can lack socialising.

How do you fix this?

Troy McAlpin•

11mo ago

Hi there!

Hi everyone! I am new to PH and already finding lots of goodness. Looks like a great community and eager to contribute. We are 12 months into building our first product, MVP is available and we're 30 days from launch . If interested in our mvp check it out at atono.io - we would really appreciate the feedback!

Oh and most importantly, we even have our mascot sorted out, the 2nd most unstressed animal Capy the Capybarra.

Troy McAlpin•

11mo ago

Old dog, new tricks? Hi All!

New to PH, but not to SaaS. Our last company surpassed $60m ARR, was purchased, took some time off, now back at it!

We are working on a new project, specifically for cross-functional software development teams and orgs. We are trying to take a fresh look at how we plan, build and run software.

p/clay-6Koshima Satija•

11mo ago

Has anyone tried Clay for managing relationships and networking?

I've recently come across Clay, and it looks like a super interesting tool for managing relationships and staying on top of networking. I'm curious if anyone here has tried it out.

  • How has it fit into your workflow?

  • Does it really help with staying on top of connections?

  • Any pros and cons you'd call out?

Would love to hear your experiences especially if you ve found unique ways to get the most out of it!

p/clay-6Koshima Satija•

11mo ago

Has anyone tried Clay for managing relationships and networking?

I've recently come across Clay, and it looks like a super interesting tool for managing relationships and staying on top of networking. I'm curious if anyone here has tried it out.

  • How has it fit into your workflow?

  • Does it really help with staying on top of connections?

  • Any pros and cons you'd call out?

Would love to hear your experiences especially if you ve found unique ways to get the most out of it!