Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Prague
A lot of Prague startups are born inside a Karlín studio that's still billing client hours to pay for the product it's trying to build on the side.
A product built in the gaps between client work
Prague's tech scene, clustered around Karlín, grew on a reputation for solid engineering at a cost Western European clients found attractive, and a fair number of local studios are now trying to move up the value chain into product work of their own, while still paying the bills with client engagements in the meantime. A startup born that way is a strange hybrid: five people who are simultaneously billing hours to a client and trying to carve out time to build something they actually own.
That's a harder resourcing problem than a typical founding team faces, since the same engineer might log a morning against a client's codebase and an afternoon against the product idea that's supposed to become the real company. Keeping both efforts honestly tracked, without either one quietly eating the other's time, matters more here than it would for a team building only one thing.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough to run a client engagement and an early product effort side by side without a software cost. One subscription runs engineering, hiring, marketing and operations together past that, so growth doesn't mean a new tool for every function that comes online.
Splitting a day between client work and the product doesn't leave time to comb through a full project before deciding what's actually next, so the workspace opens to "my day" instead: today's items, a one-tap time log, and a single tap to flag being blocked that pulls in help directly.
What an early Prague startup actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently, not a trial that expires right as the product effort finally has momentum.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each keep their own board, so a studio billing client hours and building a product isn't also paying for two separate systems to track both.
Run a client engagement and a product effort as separate boards in one workspace, without a second subscription or a spreadsheet bridging the two.
Why the product's scoped a certain way sits next to the work, with page history, so the reasoning survives past whichever late night it was decided.
"My day" opens by default whether the task is billable or not: today's assigned items, a one-tap time log, and a tap to flag being blocked that routes straight to whoever can fix it.
An honest number for time that isn't billable yet
Time logging that only exists to bill a client misses the whole point for a studio trying to build its own product on the side. ShipSprint's five-second log sits next to any task, client or product, and hours roll up automatically by project, so a founder can see exactly how much of the team's real capacity is actually going toward the thing they're trying to own, not just the thing that's currently paying rent.
That honesty matters at review time too. A studio deciding whether the product effort deserves more hours next quarter needs a real number, not a guess based on how busy everyone felt.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., registered in India, with no Prague office or Czech entity. Billing is in rupees, worth checking the exchange rate and confirming VAT treatment with your own accountant if you're invoicing clients in euros yourself.
Tracking hours honestly across client and product work doesn't require watching how anyone spends their day to do it. There's no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging and no activity tracker in the product, on any plan. A scorecard built from delivered work and self-logged hours, adjusted for leave, stays with the person it describes.
Questions from Prague startups
Yes. Set up a board per client engagement and a separate board for the product effort. Time logs roll up by project, so hours on one don't blend into the other.
For a lot of small studios, yes. 2 projects on the Free plan is usually enough to cover one client engagement and one product effort at once, with no expiry pushing an early upgrade.
No. Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is registered in India, with no Czech subsidiary, and billing runs in rupees rather than euros or koruna.
Team is ₹299 per user per month for up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 and adds forecasting, scorecards, the owner command center, priority support and unlimited projects. Full breakdown on the pricing page.
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