Project Management Software for Technology Startups in San Jose
San Jose and the South Bay are where a lot of deep technical work gets built, chip design, systems software, infrastructure. ShipSprint's free plan fits the five-person team doing that work before it's hired a platform engineer to support it.
Deep technical work, done by a very small team
San Jose and the South Bay around it skew toward the kind of engineering that doesn't show up in a launch tweet: chip design, systems software, infrastructure, work where "done" often means "verified" rather than "shipped." A startup building that kind of product rarely has the luxury of a large team early on, which means the two or three engineers doing it are also the ones interviewing candidates, drafting a pitch deck, and figuring out what last sprint actually cost.
That's a specific kind of resource scarcity most project tools don't account for. A workflow builder with custom fields and an approval chain is overhead a two-hundred-person engineering org can absorb. It's dead weight for a founding team of five who need a board that reflects real constraints on day one, not a setup project before it becomes useful.
ShipSprint's free plan is five users and two projects, forever, on the full product, billed in rupees by a company based in India, a plain fact about the invoice rather than a claim of a local office.
What matters before you've hired a platform function
Fewer required fields, fewer approval steps, a bias toward letting the code do the reporting.
Five users and two projects, permanently, on the full product. A founding team runs real sprints on it and only pays once headcount or project count actually crosses that line.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own templates and vocabulary on the same account, so the founder handling recruiting this week isn't paying for a separate ATS to do it.
A new workspace opens with a sample project preloaded, and GitHub branches move cards while merged pull requests close them, so the board doesn't drift out of sync with what actually shipped.
Early-stage architecture and design decisions get revisited often. The built-in wiki keeps them next to the work they affect, 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 isn't a fourteen-day evaluation window
A lot of the tools a small engineering team tries first call something "free" when it's a trial with a deadline, or a seat cap tight enough to force an upgrade before the second sprint ends. 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, and bills in rupees. There's no South Bay office and no claim of one, and support works the same way for every customer regardless of location. For a small technical team, the practical effect is cost: per seat, it tends to run at a fraction of what typical US-market engineering tools charge. See pricing for current numbers.
When a team does cross five people or two projects, Team runs ₹299 per user per month, still priced for a small engineering team's budget. 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 GitHub-linked product the team already knows, with more of it switched on.
Questions from San Jose startups
Yes. Five users and two projects run on the Free plan permanently, on the same product as the paid tiers, with no time limit. You move up once your team or project count actually outgrows those numbers.
It sits on top of your GitHub workflow, not in place of it. Branches move cards, merged pull requests close them, and burndown and cycle-time analytics are generated from that activity, so the board reflects what's actually happening in the repo.
The charge on your card or invoice is denominated in rupees rather than dollars, same mechanics as any SaaS subscription. The practical upshot for a US team is cost, well under typical US-market pricing per seat. Check the pricing page for current numbers.
No. No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking. Scorecards reflect delivered work and logged hours, visible to the person they describe, and adjusted for leave.
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14-day full-access trial · sample project included · no card required