Overview:
Sayr is a source-available project management platform that includes a built-in public-facing portal. It addresses the problem of teams using separate tools for internal project management and external customer feedback, which leads to duplicated work and stale updates. Sayr replaces both with a single system offering two views: an internal board for the team and a public board showing only permitted items. It is designed for teams that want to manage their work and collect user feedback, feature requests, and progress tracking in one place.
Core Features:
Visibility system: Every item (tasks, comments, labels, timeline entries) has an individual public/private toggle that takes effect immediately.
Public portal: Each organization gets a dedicated subdomain with a live task board showing public tasks, user voting, public task submission, and public comments with reactions.
Task management: Tasks support statuses (Backlog, Todo, In Progress, Done, Canceled), 5 priority levels, multiple assignees, subtasks, task relations, labels, categories, releases, saved views, and issue templates.
GitHub integration: Bidirectional sync between Sayr tasks and GitHub issues, per repository, with keyword references in commits and PRs, and comment syncing.
Collaboration & real-time: Rich text editor, threaded comments with edit history, emoji reactions, WebSocket broadcasting for all events, notifications, and a cross-organization "My Tasks" view.
Extensible integrations: Custom API routes and admin UI pages can be added via a scaffolding tool, with declarative page configuration and field types.
Use Cases:
Teams seeking a unified tool: Organizations that want to replace separate project management and customer feedback tools with a single platform where internal work and public user interaction coexist.
Managing public feature requests: Teams that want to allow users to submit, vote on, and track the progress of feature requests publicly, while keeping internal discussions and planning private.
Collaborating with external contributors: Open-source projects or product teams that need to sync tasks with GitHub issues and allow public ticket submission, voting, and commenting.
Customizing the portal and workflow: Organizations that need to brand their public portal, configure issue templates for user submissions, and set up granular visibility controls per task or comment.
Why It Matters:
Sayr provides a concrete open-source alternative to managing internal project work and external user feedback in one system, eliminating the duplication of data between separate tools. Its visibility system, where every item can be toggled public or private, is a specific differentiator that enables teams to control exactly what users see. The platform is available in a free self-hosted Community Edition, supporting one organization with unlimited members. For teams that need deeper control, it offers a REST API, GitHub integration, and an extensible integration system for adding custom functionality.
