Tasklane
A keyboard-first project tracker for engineering and product teams
Tasklane is the AppLiaison answer for teams who want a Linear-shaped issue tracker without renting it from Linear. It is a keyboard-first project management tool built around the assumption that the best UI is the one that disappears — every action is one shortcut away, the inbox loads in under 100ms, and the only forms you will fill in are the ones that capture work that is actually about to happen.
Key features
- Command-palette UI with full keyboard navigation (cmd-k everywhere)
- Cycles, sprints, and continuous backlog views in one model
- Bidirectional GitHub and GitLab issue sync (PRs auto-link by branch name)
- Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications with reply-from-thread
- Saved views per team, per role, per project
- Smart triage rules with conditional auto-assign and label propagation
- Importer for Linear, Jira, GitHub Issues, Asana with relationship preservation
- SSO/SAML with role and team-level access scoping (License model)
Architecture
Built on the Vertical SaaS Stack.
What you get
Tasklane lands as a multi-tenant SaaS instance under your brand. New teams sign up, complete the GitHub / GitLab OAuth flow, and have their first synced issue in under a minute. The shipping experience — load the inbox, triage, write a quick PR — is sharpened to the point where reps actually use it during a standup.
Sample customer story (placeholder — illustrative only)
A 28-engineer fintech startup licensed Tasklane after watching their Jira instance slow to a crawl mid-sprint. Within a week of go-live, the median time from “engineer files an issue” to “PR opened against main” dropped from 38 hours to 9 — not because Tasklane is faster than Jira on the wire, but because the keyboard-first surface meant engineers actually filed and worked from issues instead of routing around them.
What’s NOT included
- Roadmap / portfolio planning across 50+ teams. Tasklane scales cleanly to ~30-team orgs; beyond that you want something with explicit portfolio rollup, which is on the roadmap but not in the box today.
- Time tracking and timesheets. That’s Clockwise’s job — both apps share auth and tenant if you license the pair.
- Customer-side ML triage. Triage rules are explicit and configurable. ML auto-classification is a paid customization.
- Mobile-first. Responsive web works on a phone; there is no native app. Engineers live in the browser.
Whitelabel surfaces
| Surface | Themeable | Custom domain |
|---|---|---|
| Web app | yes | yes |
| Email digests | yes | yes (sender domain) |
| Slack and Teams app | yes (logo + name) | n/a |
| GitHub bot | yes (avatar + name) | n/a |
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