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Laneup
Rank and sort your Jira backlog with rules your team writes once
- Score
- 46
- confidence 35
- Evidence
- 1
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2012
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Teams write ranking rules, review backlog lanes, and manage Jira workflows—sustained analytical work with many fields and previews. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Ranking rules
Shared with Web team3 rules
- Due within 7 days
About this appAI proposal
Laneup helps Jira teams keep their backlog in order without hand-sorting it every week. You write a few ranking rules in plain terms, such as due date, customer impact or labels, and Laneup proposes an order and groups work into lanes that match how your team works.
It is made for product, editorial and engineering teams in digital media, technology and information companies that already run their work in Jira. Nothing is moved until someone approves it, and every change shows the rule behind it.
Rules are shared per team, can be tried on a preview first, and can be edited by anyone you allow, not only a Jira admin.
- Tagline
- Your Jira backlog, in order, with reasons.
- Voice
- ClearCalmPractical
- Why this name
- Lanes are how the work is grouped, and up is the direction priority moves. Two plain words joined into one easy name.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Plain-language ranking rules
Build a priority score from fields, labels and dates with a simple rule builder. No scripts or admin work needed.
No member yet
Preview before applying
See the proposed order next to the current one. Apply all, some or none of the changes.
No member yet
Lanes per team workflow
Group issues into lanes such as Now, Next and Later. Each team keeps its own setup.
No member yet
Explain every position
Each issue shows which rules raised or lowered it, so priority debates start from facts.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
Check the name against trademark registers before using it.
Palette
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Typography
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Laneup
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Your Jira backlog, in order, with reasons.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, with per-team subscription pricing as the opportunity describes.
Free
Free
- 1 team
- 3 ranking rules
- Preview before applying
Team
$29 a month
- Up to 3 teams
- Unlimited rules
- Lanes and templates
- Scheduled re-checks
Organization
$99 a month
- Unlimited teams
- Shared rule library
- Priority support
Would you pay Team · $29 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
What products in this market make
- $1.8K Per Month SaaS Business in the Digital Media NicheVerified$1,828 a month, worth about $35,000 at that multiple · Empire Flippers
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Partners and integrations. Laneup is listed in the Atlassian Marketplace, where Jira admins and team leads search for ranking and prioritization tools. Teams that share rules also bring in other teams in the same company.
- Do they become customers?
- Marketplace visitors are Jira buyers, so they can become paying customers. Test whether free-tier teams convert to Team and whether one team brings in others.
- First customers
- Product and editorial leads at digital media and software companies with 20 to 100 people who run backlogs of several hundred Jira issues.
- Where to reach them
- Atlassian Marketplace: List the app with a free tier and rule templates for sprint planning and editorial calendars.
- Atlassian Community forums: Answer questions about backlog ranking and offer templates as help, not ads.
- First milestone
- Ten teams using the free tier weekly and three paying for Team within 60 days of listing.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedA business in this market sold on Empire Flippers averages $1,828 a month in revenue ($1,761 net profit), figures vetted by the broker
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Jira integrationAtlassian Forge or Connect app with REST APINeeded to read and re-rank issues and to list in the Atlassian Marketplace.
- This app · Background jobsScheduled job runnerRuns scheduled re-checks and syncs large backlogs without blocking users.
RisksAI inference
- PlatformDepends on Atlassian's APIs, review process and Marketplace rules, which can change or limit how ranking is written.
- CommercialJira already has native ranking and other add-ons; teams may not pay for a better rule builder. Needs testing.
- CommercialThe one verified data point is an average of $1,828 monthly revenue for a business in this market, so the ceiling may be small.
- TechnicalRe-ranking large backlogs can hit API rate limits and conflict with edits made by teammates at the same time.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.