How do I use Ziggy in Slack?

Mention Ziggy in any Slack thread and tell it what you want. Plain language works. Ziggy reads the full conversation and creates a complete Jira ticket in under 3 seconds.

What does Ziggy put into the Jira ticket?

Everything Jira usually asks for - without the form. Ziggy creates the issue with a title, description with real context from the thread, project and issue type, priority, and assignee. Then it posts the ticket key and link back into the same Slack thread.

Do I need Jira seats for everyone?

No. Anyone in Slack can create tickets through Ziggy. If they have a Jira seat, they'll be set as the reporter. If they don't, Ziggy creates the issue as Ziggy.

What access does Ziggy need?

Enough to do the job, not more. Slack: read messages where Ziggy is mentioned, post replies. Jira: create and update issues in your selected projects.

How does the trial and pricing work?

14 days free, no credit card required. After that, one flat price of $29/month per workspace. Unlimited users, unlimited issues. Pricing is per workspace, not per seat.

I hate Jira

Last updated: March 2026

No one loves Jira. That's fine. It doesn't need to be loved. It needs to track work. The problem is that using it feels like work itself. Jira is used by over 300,000 organizations worldwide (Atlassian, 2025). Most of them have at least one person who'd rather do anything else than open it.

What you actually hate

When people say "I hate Jira," they usually mean one of these things:

Opening Jira

The tab. The loading. The sidebar. The project picker. You were in the middle of something in Slack and now you're staring at a dashboard you didn't ask for. According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to fully regain focus after a context switch (Mark et al., UC Irvine). By the time you're in the right project with the right form open, you've forgotten half of what you were going to write.

Filling forms

Project. Issue type. Summary. Description. Priority. Assignee. Labels. Sprint. Epic. Components. Story points. Some required, some not, some with dropdowns that have 40 options. This is what stands between "we should track this" and an actual ticket.

Re-typing what already exists

The conversation happened in Slack. Everyone agreed on what the bug is, how to reproduce it, and who should fix it. Now someone has to manually translate 15 messages into a structured Jira description. That's the part that makes you close the tab and say "I'll do it later."

Checking Jira

You created the ticket. You assigned it. Now you have to check Jira to know if it's done. Or you set up notifications and get 30 emails a day about status changes you don't care about. There's no good middle ground.

The ceremony

Workflows with 8 status columns. Required fields that nobody reads. Mandatory story points on a bug report. Jira becomes a process tool instead of a tracking tool. The ceremony around it is what kills it.

It's not Jira. It's the gap.

Here's the thing. Jira is fine at what it does. It tracks issues. It has boards. It has workflows. The features work.

What's broken is the gap between where you talk about work and where you track it. Your team discusses everything in Slack. Then someone has to context-switch to Jira, re-create the conversation as a ticket, and go back to Slack. That gap is where the pain lives.

Switching to Linear or Shortcut might help with the UI. But the gap stays. You still discuss work in Slack and track it somewhere else. The friction of moving information between the two is the same.

What switching tools doesn't fix

Context switching. You still leave Slack to create tickets. A prettier form is still a form.

Context loss. The conversation is in Slack. The ticket is somewhere else. You're still re-typing.

Friction. Creating a ticket in Linear takes less time than Jira. But it still takes time. And anything that takes time gets skipped when you're busy.

Migration pain. Moving your entire team off Jira means migrating projects, rewriting workflows, retraining people, and losing integrations. That's months of work for a tool that's still "fine" at its core job.

What actually helps

Instead of replacing Jira, stop touching it.

Create tickets from Slack. Don't open Jira. Don't fill forms. If the conversation happened in Slack, the ticket should be created from Slack - with the conversation as context.

Let AI read the thread. The Slack conversation already contains the title, description, priority, and assignee. Something should extract it automatically instead of asking you to re-type it.

Get updates in Slack. When a ticket changes status, see it in the original thread. Don't check Jira. Don't set up email notifications. Just close the loop where the conversation started.

Simplify Jira itself. Fewer required fields. Fewer status columns. Remove ceremony that doesn't serve the team. This is free and high-impact.

How this works with Ziggy

Ziggy is a Slack bot. Mention @ziggy in a thread and it reads the full conversation. It creates a Jira ticket with all fields filled in - title, description, project, issue type, priority, assignee. Posts the link back in the thread. Under 3 seconds.

You don't open Jira. You don't fill a form. You don't re-type anything. The ticket has the real context from the real conversation.

When the ticket is resolved, Ziggy posts an update in the original Slack thread. You don't check Jira. You don't wonder if it's done. The loop closes where it started.

It checks for duplicates before creating. It attaches files from the thread to the ticket.

$29/month per workspace. Not per seat. You still use Jira. You just don't have to touch it.

Common questions

Why does everyone hate Jira?

Most people hate the workflow around Jira, not Jira itself. Creating tickets means context switching from Slack, filling forms, and re-typing information. The friction between where work gets discussed and where it gets tracked is the real problem.

What is the best alternative to Jira?

Linear, Shortcut, and Asana are popular alternatives. But if your frustration is creating tickets, the tool might not be the problem. Ziggy eliminates ticket creation friction by creating Jira issues from Slack conversations automatically.

How do I make Jira less annoying?

Reduce the time you spend in it. Automate ticket creation from Slack. Simplify workflows - fewer required fields, fewer status transitions. Use tools that handle Jira for you so you don't have to open it.

Can I create Jira tickets without opening Jira?

Yes. The native Slack integration opens a form (still manual). Ziggy reads your Slack thread and creates a complete ticket automatically - all fields filled, under 3 seconds, without opening Jira at all.

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