Plate is a fast, minimal project management tool for small teams. Organize work into projects, sections, and tasks — with assignees, statuses, comments, and real-time collaboration, without the clutter of traditional PM tools.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 A few years ago we built Tweek — a minimal calendar for personal task planning. People liked it because it felt closer to paper than software: simple, calm, and obvious.
For a long time we wanted to bring the same feeling to team work. But every time we tried to extend Tweek with projects, roles, collaboration, statuses, and comments, it started becoming exactly the kind of tool we didn’t want to build.
So we made Plate.
Plate is a simple project management tool for small teams. The structure is intentionally limited:
Workspace → Project → Section → Task No boards. No complex setup. No PM theater.
You can create projects, group tasks into sections, assign people, change statuses, leave comments, mention teammates, and see updates in real time.
The goal is not to replace Jira for engineering orgs or Asana for companies with heavy processes. Plate is for small teams that need a shared workspace to move work forward.
Would love your feedback, especially on: 1. Is the simplicity too strict, or refreshing? 2. What’s the one feature you’d still expect in a tool like this? 3. Does the positioning make sense compared to Basecamp, Linear, Asana, etc.?
Thanks for checking it out.
About Plate on Product Hunt
“Minimal project management for small teams”
Plate launched on Product Hunt on May 13th, 2026 and earned 106 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Plate is a fast, minimal project management tool for small teams. Organize work into projects, sections, and tasks — with assignees, statuses, comments, and real-time collaboration, without the clutter of traditional PM tools.
On the analytics side, Plate competes within Task Management — topics that collectively have 84k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Plate performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Plate?
Plate was hunted by Karl Plaude. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Plate including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Karl Plaude
Hey Product Hunt 👋
A few years ago we built Tweek — a minimal calendar for personal task planning. People liked it because it felt closer to paper than software: simple, calm, and obvious.
For a long time we wanted to bring the same feeling to team work. But every time we tried to extend Tweek with projects, roles, collaboration, statuses, and comments, it started becoming exactly the kind of tool we didn’t want to build.
So we made Plate.
Plate is a simple project management tool for small teams. The structure is intentionally limited:
Workspace → Project → Section → Task
No boards. No complex setup. No PM theater.
You can create projects, group tasks into sections, assign people, change statuses, leave comments, mention teammates, and see updates in real time.
The goal is not to replace Jira for engineering orgs or Asana for companies with heavy processes. Plate is for small teams that need a shared workspace to move work forward.
Would love your feedback, especially on:
1. Is the simplicity too strict, or refreshing?
2. What’s the one feature you’d still expect in a tool like this?
3. Does the positioning make sense compared to Basecamp, Linear, Asana, etc.?
Thanks for checking it out.