Hacker News Reader

Absolutely, however you are not picking the best tools IMO. I would look at GitLab, which has stronger project management and issue tracking integration (as well as a free self-hosted version). Another solution is to evaluate Phabricator as it has a stronger feature-set in some areas.

GitLab Omnibus has Mattermost integration, but you could also look at Rocket.Chat (and in all honesty Discord is a kickass free alternative to Slack).

View on HN

Thanks for mentioning us. In my opinion the primary difference between Atlassian and GitLab is that they have separate applications that integrate while we have a single application https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#single-application

This is a great example of why Atlasssian is a compelling option - what's 'Best' in each category? Getting a single (supported) license that you know will work is much simpler for all.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com