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2.19.2014 Sprintly Product Update

Published by on February 19, 2014.

The Feb. 19, 2014’s update to Sprintly included a number of key changes. Change to Item Detail Page We moved up the comment and attachment upload box on the item detail (permalink) page. It is now located right below the item description: It was formerly at the end of an item’s activity stream, at the bottom […]

Raygun Integration

Published by on February 18, 2014.

Sprintly is excited to announce yet another awesome integration! Today we feature the Raygun.io integration from our friends at Mindscape. Raygun notifies you of your software’s bugs as they happen. With this integration you can attach an error group to a Sprint.ly issue that already exists, or create a new item in Sprintly from an error group. All directly […]

Bugsnag Integration

Published by on February 17, 2014.

Sprintly is excited to announce the Bugsnag integration. Bugsnag detects and diagnoses crashes in your applications and now you can set up Bugsnag to automatically create defects within Sprintly. Read more about Bugsnag and the integration on Bugsnag’s blog!

Sprint.ly’s New Pricing Model

Published by on December 19, 2013.

Most companies in the business-to-business SaaS model work on a freemium model or a trial model. We are going to try both. Gone are the days when you could make a simple software product that serves all customers the same way. We now have to design the whole product and the user experience around it. […]

New Feature: Reports

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Sprint.ly rolled out a beautiful new collaborative feature today called Reports. Reports is a great way to view items within one product, across all phases and in a grid format. Features & functions available in Reports: Pie Chart Ownership Bar Full Card / Minimized Card Sort Columns Filter by different item criteria NEW! Filter by […]

Sprint.ly Closes Seed Financing Round

Published by on November 19, 2013.

We are pleased to announce the closing of our Seed financing round.  The financing yielded about a million dollars in new money for Sprint.ly to expand marketing and hiring. We’d like to thank Freestyle Capital, our long time supporters, for leading the round that included some of our mentors and friends, completely new folks from […]

New Sprint.ly Search Backend

Published by on November 5, 2013.

Hey Sprinters! We rolled out a new search backend today. This big win with ElasticSearch will allow us to greatly expand our search features in the course of the coming months. In the meantime, our new search offers you some great immediate benefits: Items and comments are indexed within a second or two. This means […]

Sprint.ly Backlog Management

Published by on October 21, 2013.

Managing your project’s backlog can be an unwieldy process when you’re facing a long list of items. At Sprint.ly, we are project managers as well and use Sprint.ly every single day to manage our long list of iterations, releases and internal projects. We created this simple walk-through on how to effectively manage your project backlog. […]

Outage Report

Published by on October 17, 2013.

Today at 10:03AM Pacific we began experiencing an outage that resulted in a total of about 15 minutes of intermittent downtime. Our TraceView graphs show a clear MySQL anomaly. We use Amazon’s RDS product for managing our MySQL needs and Sentry for tracking exceptions from Django. When we looked into the graphs and error reports […]

Welcomes Phuong Palmares to the Team

Published by on October 15, 2013.

First let’s get the obvious aside – how do you pronounce “Phuong?” It is pronounced as “Foo-ung.” Most Vietnamese and oddly enough, Spanish speakers can pronounce this name without much ado. Saying “Foo-ung” while gesturing a waving motion with your arm helps. If that didn’t work, you can just go with F-O-N-G. I’m good with […]