Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Ho Chi Minh City
A small District 1 startup competing for the same engineers as the city's fast-growing outsourcing shops can't afford to look slower or less organised than they are.
A fast city, and a founding team that has to keep up
Ho Chi Minh City, still called Saigon by plenty of the people who work there, runs Vietnam's commercial engine at a pace that visitors from the more formal north often describe as noticeably faster and louder. That energy has built a genuinely large software outsourcing scene around District 1 and District 7, and it's also produced a growing number of small product startups founded by engineers who left one of those outsourcing shops to build something they own instead, usually with the same two or three people covering every job the company needs.
Engineers here move between companies readily, chasing better roles and better tools, which means a young startup's internal systems are part of its pitch whether the founder thinks about it that way or not. A five-person team still tracking its own sprints on a spreadsheet is a visible red flag to a candidate who's already worked somewhere with something better, and a "free" tool that quietly starts billing after a month is one more thing pulling a founder's attention away from actually building.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers five users and two projects permanently, and engineering, HR, marketing and operations run on the same subscription, so a small founding team can look organised from day one without four separate purchasing decisions to get there.
What a small, fast-moving HCMC team actually needs
A young team competing for talent against much bigger outsourcing shops doesn't need their infrastructure. It needs to look organised without it.
Five users and two projects, permanently, not a trial with a friendlier name. A founding team can build its whole workflow here before deciding anything needs to be paid for.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own templates on the same login, so a founder covering several roles isn't paying for or learning four separate tools.
A sample project is preloaded, and a board can be shaped to how the team actually works within a sitting, no lengthy configuration process to get through first.
The built-in wiki keeps decisions next to the work they affect, with page history, useful when an early hire leaving shouldn't mean the reasoning behind a decision leaves with them.
Everyone opens to today's items, a one-tap time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", which pulls in the right person with context attached, on a team small enough that it's immediate.
Free that doesn't slow a fast-moving founder down
A city that moves this fast has little patience for a tool that adds friction, and a free plan that turns out to be a trial adds exactly that: an unplanned decision landing in the middle of a hiring push or a fundraise. ShipSprint's Free plan has no expiry: five users and two projects stay free for as long as a team needs them, with the limits stated plainly rather than discovered in a billing email.
The city sits roughly an hour and a half ahead of India Standard Time, one of the smaller time gaps in the region, considerably closer than a US or European vendor's support desk would be. Billing itself runs in rupees through Quantuva Technologies, based in India, a plain fact about the company rather than a claim of any local Vietnamese presence.
A five-person team competing for talent against much bigger outsourcing shops doesn't need to be watched to prove it's working, the pace of the city already keeps that visible. What matters as the team grows is a fair, consistent record: no screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, just delivered work and logged hours, adjusted for leave and visible to the person the scorecard describes.
Questions from Ho Chi Minh City startups
It's permanent. Five users and two projects stay free for as long as a team needs them, with no trial window ending unannounced. A team moves to a paid plan when it's genuinely ready to, not before.
Boards, sprint tracking and forecasts work the same regardless of team size, so a five-person startup runs on the same underlying system a much larger outsourcing operation would use, without the enterprise price tag.
Support is based in India, roughly an hour and a half behind Ho Chi Minh City. It's one of the shorter time gaps ShipSprint has with any market it serves.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per year, for up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, and adds forecasts, scorecards and the owner command center. Full detail is on the pricing page.
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