Shortcut Software

Shortcut Software is an American software company that develops project management software for software development teams.[1][2][3] Until September of 2021 it was known as Clubhouse Software.[4]

Shortcut Software, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware
FoundedNew York City
2014 (2014)
Founders
  • Kurt Schrader
  • Andrew Childs
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
United States
Products
  • Shortcut
Number of employees
80
Websiteshortcut.com

History

Shortcut Software, then known as Clubhouse Software, was founded in 2014, with the aim of “bringing more transparency and predictive models to the process of software engineering”.[5] After a year in beta, its flagship product, a project management platform called Clubhouse, was launched in 2016.

In December 2017, Clubhouse raised US$10 million in Series A round of funding, led by Battery Ventures.[1] Previous to this, the company had raised US$4 million across two rounds of seed funding from Resolute Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, BoxGroup, RRE Ventures, and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.[1]

In January 2020, Clubhouse raised US$25 million in Series B round of funding, led by Greylock Partners. The round which included previous investors Battery Ventures and Lerer Hippeau, valued Clubhouse at US$100 million.[6]

The company has no relationship with the invitation-only audio-chat app of the same name which launched on iOS in April 2020.[7] The identical names of the two apps regularly caused confusion after the chat app's launch. For example, in February 2021, after Elon Musk announced that he would make an appearance on the platform, Android users looking for the chat service review bombed Clubhouse Software's Android app, causing the company to pull the app temporarily.[8]

On July 29, 2021, the company announced it would be changing its company and product name to Shortcut, effective mid-September, citing challenges in maintaining its prior brand following the growth of the Clubhouse chat app. It officially switched over to the new name on September 13, 2021.[9]

Product

Shortcut

Shortcut is a commercial software product for project management and issue tracking. It includes features to track and plan user stories, plan software development sprints, visualize work in progress with kanban boards, and report on progress of work.[10] Shortcut is also free for up to 10 users.[11]

Shortcut has integrations with Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and others. It is available through a web application and apps for iOS and Android.

Shortcut is written in Clojure, with a custom JavaScript front end.[12] Its features can also be accessed using a REST API. The Shortcut API (then called the Clubhouse API) was noted in 2019 as "one of the most talked about APIs" by ProgrammableWeb.[13]

References
  1. Crichton, Danny (12 December 2017). "Clubhouse nets $10m Series A from Battery Ventures to make software development fun again". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017.
  2. Chan, Rosalie (30 October 2018). "Four-year-old startup Clubhouse has a bold new plan to take on Atlassian's mega-popular Jira with a new project management tool". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
  3. Rubinstein, David (5 March 2019). "Making project management easier… for developers". SD Times. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
  4. Schrader, Kurt (July 29, 2021). "Clubhouse is changing our name to Shortcut". The Clubhouse Blog. Clubhouse Software. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  5. Crook, Joran (21 July 2015). "ClubHouse Is Like Salesforce For The Engineering Team". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015.
  6. Konrad, Alex. "This New York Startup Just Raised $25 Million To Challenge Atlassian". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2020-03-08. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  7. Constine, Josh (April 18, 2020). "Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on July 8, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2020. Clubhouse, an audio-based social network [...] Don't confuse it with the similarly named Clubhouse.io.
  8. Li, Abner (2021-02-01). "Android users look for Elon Musk/Clubhouse & get wrong app". 9to5Google. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  9. Schrader, Kurt (July 29, 2021). "Clubhouse is changing our name to Shortcut". The Clubhouse Blog. Clubhouse Software. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  10. "Clubhouse: Product Features". clubhouse.io. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  11. "Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool and free version of its project management platform". TechCrunch. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  12. @clubhouse (31 July 2015). "@wycats We're Clojure/Datomic for the backend and a custom Javascript framework (built on top of JQuery) for the front-end" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. Culbertson, Joy (26 December 2019). "ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2019: Business and Productivity". ProgrammableWeb. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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