Most progress tracking lies a little. A task can sit at "80% done" for two weeks while the one hard unknown is still unsolved. Hillchart borrows the hill chart idea from Shape Up, but you don't need to adopt the whole methodology to use it.
Put each piece of work on the hill. Uphill = uncertainty. Downhill = execution. The stuck detector automatically surfaces scopes that haven't moved, so standups become "what's stuck?" instead of status theater. When stakeholders ask where things stand, send a view-only link or a snapshot instead of inventing a number.
Built in: timeline to scrub through snapshot history, epics & owners, Slack/Zapier webhooks, Notion & Confluence embeds, and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor, or any LLM tool can read what's stuck, create scopes, move them, or take snapshots.
Free for 2 projects. Pro is $10/mo: unlimited projects, animated timeline, webhooks, MCP, and white-label client views.
