Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Chennai
Chennai's startups sit in the shadow of a much larger manufacturing and services economy. ShipSprint is priced for the six-person team, not the supplier floor next door.
A small team, next to a much bigger one
Chennai's economy carries real weight: automotive and auto-components manufacturing, and an IT services corridor along OMR and around Guindy that's been billing clients by the hour for decades. A young startup here often sets up in the same buildings, sometimes on the same floor, as a supplier coordination team running production schedules that can't slip by a day. The startup gets none of that scale, and none of that budget, but it's still expected to look organized: a roadmap, a hiring process, a way to track what a launch actually cost.
That expectation lands on a team of four or five people who are each doing more than one job, because there's no headcount yet to split those jobs apart. An engineer reviewing candidates in the morning and shipping a feature in the afternoon doesn't have room in the week to also learn a workflow builder, and doesn't have budget for the add-on tier that unlocks the feature they actually need.
ShipSprint's free plan isn't a trial dressed up as generosity. It's five users and two projects, forever, on the full product, billed in rupees with GST-compliant invoices from a company registered in Hyderabad rather than a dollar price list built for someone else.
What matters before you've hired a function out
The same product a paying team uses, not a stripped preview of it.
Five users and two projects, permanently, with no clock counting down. A founding team runs real sprints on it and only pays once it genuinely outgrows those numbers.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own templates and vocabulary on the same account, so a small team isn't paying for four separate tools to cover four separate jobs one person is doing.
A new workspace opens with a sample project preloaded, so a team can see a real board before touching a setting and move actual work onto it right away.
Early-stage decisions get revisited often. The built-in wiki keeps the current reasoning next to the work it affects, with page history, and any sentence can become a task directly.
Everyone opens to a "my day" screen: today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", which pulls in the right person with context already attached.
Free that stays free, not free until it doesn't
Most tools a founder tries first sell something called free that isn't: a trial window with a deadline attached, or a seat cap so low it forces an upgrade before the second sprint finishes. ShipSprint's Free plan doesn't have an expiry date. Five users and two projects run indefinitely on the same product a Business customer uses, and nothing about it is a cut-down preview meant to be outgrown on purpose.
Rupee billing matters more here than it would to a company with a finance team big enough to absorb currency swings without noticing. A per-seat price that doesn't move with an exchange rate is easier to plan a runway around, and GST-compliant invoicing from a company registered in Hyderabad means the paperwork behind the subscription is straightforward from the first bill, not a reconciliation exercise someone has to run every quarter.
When a team near OMR or Guindy does cross five people, Team is ₹299 per user per month, still sized for a founding team rather than a supplier's coordination floor. Business adds forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center and SSO for ₹599 per user per month, and annual billing is available on either once a founder would rather settle the number once a year. It stays the same product a team already knows, with more of it turned on.
Questions from Chennai startups
Yes. Up to five users and two projects run on the Free plan permanently, on the same core product as the paid tiers, with no time limit attached. You move up when your team or project count actually outgrows those numbers.
No. The Free plan is built for exactly this size: boards, time logging, the wiki and the "my day" screen all work the same at five people as they do at fifty. Most founding teams stay comfortably on Free until headcount genuinely grows past it.
No. Engineering gets the deepest tooling, GitHub integration among it, but HR, marketing and operations run on the same account with their own templates, which fits a small team where one person often covers more than one of those jobs.
Yes, billing is in rupees with GST-compliant invoices, and annual billing is available on paid plans. See pricing for current numbers.
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