Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Austin
Austin grew fast on the idea that you don't need coastal overhead to build a real company. ShipSprint applies the same logic to the tool a five-person founding team runs everything on.
A city that already made the trade on rent. Software is next.
A lot of what pulled companies to Austin was a simple trade: build somewhere with real momentum without carrying the cost structure of the coasts. Founders who moved a company here, or started one from scratch, tend to carry that discipline into every line item, not just rent and payroll. A vendor charging coastal-startup prices for a tool that doesn't need to cost that much stands out as the exception rather than the rule.
That discipline tends to run into a wall at the software subscription line. A five-person team already stretching a seed round further than it would in San Francisco still runs into per-seat prices calibrated for a much bigger budget, with a "free" tier that's really a countdown to a paywall rather than something a founding team can actually build on.
ShipSprint runs the same trade Austin already made on office space and applies it to the tooling: a full-featured product on a genuinely free plan, five users and two projects, forever, not a trial.
What matters before the tenth hire arrives
Not a discount version of a bigger product, the full one from day one.
Five users and two projects, permanently, with the same forecasting, wiki and time tracking a Business customer gets. 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 the tenth hire, rarely another engineer, doesn't trigger a second contract to onboard.
A new workspace opens with a sample project preloaded and WIP limits set from day one, so a team doesn't outgrow the basics as it scales and doesn't need a setup project to start.
Early-stage decisions get revisited constantly. 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 one-tap time log, and one tap to flag being blocked, which routes to the right person with context already attached.
Free that stays free, not free until it isn't
Most project management tools charge the same per-seat price whether you're a twelve-person startup in East Austin or a public company in Manhattan, and their free tier is usually a fourteen-day trial or a seat cap tight enough to force an upgrade within a month. ShipSprint's Free plan has no expiry date. Five users and two projects run indefinitely on the exact product a Business customer pays for.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in India. Billing is in rupees with invoices provided for every charge. There's no Austin office and we won't pretend there is one, support runs the same way for every customer regardless of location. See pricing for current numbers rather than a dollar estimate that could drift out of date.
When a team does cross five people, Team runs ₹299 per user per month, up to 40 users, still priced for a founding team's budget rather than a coastal one. Business adds forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center and SSO at ₹599 per user per month, with annual billing available on either. It's the same product a team already knows, with more of it switched on.
Questions from Austin startups
Yes. Five users and two projects run on the Free plan permanently, on the same core product as the paid tiers, not a stripped-down trial version. Most teams stay on it until they outgrow either number, then move up rather than switching tools.
No. The Free plan covers five users and two projects, permanently, on the same product as the paid tiers, not a stripped-down version.
It means your card or invoice is charged in rupees, ordinary SaaS billing mechanics otherwise. For a US team the practical effect is cost: per seat, it tends to run at a fraction of what comparable US-market tools charge. Current numbers are on the pricing page.
No. No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking. Scorecards reflect delivered work and logged hours, visible to the person they describe, adjusted for leave.
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