1. I don't want to use Jira. I don't think this is complecated enough to justify it.

2. That might not have been a bad idea. There is a registration link and the app is fully functional. If you don't trust that though you can spin up a local with docker in 3 minutes. (check the readme)

If not Jira, maybe Linear - thats simple enough imo - and mcp is easy to use.

What struggles me more in my previous companies is that I have to use several tools just to cover the collaboration. Even a 3 ppl team often ends up with notion, linear and slack as a minimum.