Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Dublin
A homegrown Dublin startup is competing for the same engineers as the multinationals two streets over in Silicon Docks, on a fraction of the budget.
Building next door to the giants, not inside them
Dublin's docklands host European headquarters for a long list of the world's best-known technology companies, drawn by Ireland's position as an English-speaking base inside the EU. Alongside all that sits a genuinely active homegrown startup scene, smaller teams building their own product rather than running a regional office for someone else, often just a founder and a handful of early hires sharing a desk within sight of towers full of people earning multinational salaries.
That proximity is a real hiring pressure, not just a backdrop. A five-person Dublin startup is asking an engineer to take a pay cut and a risk to join something small, in a city where the safe, well-paid option is a fifteen-minute walk away. Every other cost the startup can control matters more because of that, and project software that quietly assumes a bigger budget doesn't help.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough for a founding team to run its whole first product cycle without a software cost. Past that, one subscription runs engineering, hiring, marketing and operations together, so growth doesn't mean a new vendor every time a new function comes online.
Between candidate calls and building the product, nobody has time to read a whole project before deciding what's next, so the workspace opens straight to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", pulling in whoever can actually help rather than a message sitting unread.
What an early Dublin startup actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently, not a fortnight's access before a paywall shows up.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each get their own board, so a founder covering three roles isn't managing three bills.
There's nothing to configure and no onboarding call to book before a board is ready. A founder can start using it the same day, budget or headcount aside.
Decisions live next to the work, with page history, so a new hire from a big Docklands office can actually see how the company thinks, not just hear about it.
Everyone opens to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to flag being blocked, pulling in the right person directly.
An honest answer on where ShipSprint is based
Ireland operates under its own EU data protection framework, and it's worth being direct: ShipSprint doesn't hold Irish or EU-specific compliance certifications, and using it doesn't by itself satisfy any regulatory obligation a young company has. What it offers is straightforward: every workspace is an isolated tenant, and you can export the whole thing as JSON whenever you want, which matters more for not being locked in than for satisfying a specific regulation.
For a founder deciding what to spend on early, that same honesty applies to pricing. Free means free, not a lead-generation trial, and the paid tiers are priced per seat with nothing metered separately, so the next bill as the team grows is predictable rather than a stack of add-ons discovered too late.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., registered in India, and billed in rupees. That's a fact about where the company is based, not a claim of an Irish or EU office. Charges convert at your card provider's rate on the day, and there's no VAT charged or handled on our end.
A candidate weighing a startup offer against a multinational's salary deserves an honest sense of how the smaller company actually treats people. There's no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging and no activity tracker in the product, at any plan. What exists instead is a scorecard built from delivered work and self-logged hours, adjusted for leave, kept for the person it describes.
Questions from Dublin startups
It's permanent. 5 users and 2 projects, no time limit, no forced upgrade. A lot of very early Dublin teams run their entire first year on it.
Yes. Set up the board you actually need right now, usually engineering first, and add a hiring pipeline once the first real recruiting push starts. Both live in the same subscription.
No specific certifications are claimed. Every workspace is an isolated tenant, admin actions are logged, and you can export your full workspace as JSON at any time, which supports data portability, but that's a product feature rather than a formal compliance claim.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, roughly €3, for up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, roughly €6 to €7, adding forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center, priority support, unlimited projects and SSO. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial, no card required. Full pricing is on the pricing page.
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