Project Management

Migrate your Nostromo data

Nostromo was a product management platform from Digital Natives that has permanently shut down. No new migrations are possible; historical data recovery requires working with archived backups or any pre-shutdown exports the customer secured.

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In its favor

Why people choose Nostromo

The signal that keeps Nostromo on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.

Nostromo was chosen by product teams already invested in the Digital Natives ecosystem, particularly Hungarian and Central European software shops that used multiple Digital Natives tools in combination.

The platform shut down permanently due to limited resources, leaving customers without a live system and forcing emergency migration to alternatives like Jira, Linear, or Asana.

Customers cited weak integration support as a pain point, with the review noting the platform's resistance to connecting with third-party tools.

Without an active development team post-shutdown, bug fixes and feature requests went unaddressed, making the platform increasingly stale compared to competitors.

Reasons to switch

Why people leave Nostromo

The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Nostromo. Presented as facts, not knocks.

Platform scorecard

Strengths, weaknesses, and where Nostromo fits

Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.

SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit

Strengths

Simple task hierarchy with parent-child relationships that export cleanly to CSV and JSON formats.Clean user model with email, name, and role fields that map reliably to most destination platforms.Minimal custom object complexity, making schema mapping straightforward when full exports exist.

Weaknesses

Platform shutdown means no live API access; migrations depend entirely on what the customer exported before the service went offline.No public backup or data portability tooling was documented, so exports are often partial or missing entirely.Limited third-party integration support during the platform's active period, meaning archived data may lack enriched context from connected tools.

Where it works

Central European software shops already using multiple Digital Natives tools, where tight ecosystem alignment outweighs limited external connectivity.Small to mid-sized product teams managing straightforward backlogs without complex cross-tool dependencies or elaborate custom fields.Teams that preserved their own CSV or JSON exports before the 2023 shutdown, providing clean source material for reconstruction.Organizations with simple parent-child task hierarchies that export cleanly without requiring enrichment from connected systems.Product groups prioritizing minimal schema complexity and reliable user identity fields over advanced workflow capabilities.

Where it struggles

Teams with no pre-shutdown exports, since the permanently offline platform offers no live API or admin panel to recover data from.Organizations requiring integrations with third-party tools, given the documented weakness in external connectivity during the platform's active period.Companies needing ongoing platform development, as the shutdown left no active team to address bugs, feature requests, or evolving needs.Enterprises with complex custom object schemas, where the limited third-party integration support means archived data lacks enriched context from connected systems.

Pricing tiers

Nostromo pricing overview

Nostromo offers a free plan for individuals, non-profits, and education institutes with unlimited projects and features, plus paid team tiers. The vendor does not publish detailed per-seat pricing on review aggregators; quotes scale with team size and feature requirements. A free trial without credit card is available. Nostromo's positioning is digital product management — kanban + design integration + time tracking — rather than general PM.

Free (Individuals / Non-profit / Education)

Tier 1 of 2

$0

What's included

Unlimited projects and featuresKanban board with WIP limits and swimlanesBuilt-in time trackingDesign integrationRecurring and postponed tasksAvailable to individuals, non-profits, and education institutes only

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What gets migrated

Nostromo object support

Object-by-object support for Nostromo migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.

Projects

Mapping required

If the customer preserved a full project export before shutdown, we map Projects to the destination's project or workspace construct. Without a live API, we work strictly from whatever structured backup file exists.

Tasks

Mapping required

Task data migrates as subtask trees where the export preserves parent-child relationships. We reconstruct hierarchy from the exported structure and map to the destination's equivalent.

Users

Mapping required

User accounts are mapped to the destination's assignee or owner field. Email addresses and display names are preserved; role mappings depend on what role data the export contains.

Sprints

Mapping required

If the customer's export included sprint data, we map Sprint objects to the destination's sprint or iteration field. Without explicit sprint records, we fall back to date-based grouping.

Custom Fields

Mapping required

Custom field definitions and values migrate as custom properties. We preserve field names and data types, noting that some destination platforms handle custom fields differently.

Attachments

Not in this platform

Nostromo did not expose attachments via its public export mechanism. Binary files (images, documents) are not recoverable from the archived backup format. We flag this gap and recommend re-attaching files from source systems where available.

Comments

Mapping required

Comments migrate as threaded notes or discussion entries depending on the destination platform's comment model. Authorship and timestamps are preserved from the export.

Labels

Mapping required

Tags and labels migrate as tags or categories in the destination. We deduplicate and normalise the label set during mapping.

Gotchas

What to watch for in Nostromo migrations

Issues we've hit on past Nostromo migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.

High

Platform shutdown eliminates all live API access

Medium

No standard export format or documented schema

Medium

Attachments and binary assets are not recoverable

How a Nostromo migration works

Four steps, Nostromo-specific

Connect

Per multiple third-party listings, Nostromo does not offer a public API. Authentication is therefore not applicable for external integrations beyond the in-app Slack connector. into Nostromo. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.

Map

We translate Nostromo-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.

Sample

Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Nostromo quirks before production.

Migrate

Full migration with Nostromo rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.

FAQ

Nostromo migration FAQ

Answers to the questions buyers ask most during Nostromo migration scoping. Not seeing yours? Book a call.

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Most Nostromo migrations under 1M records finish in 48–72 hours end-to-end. Larger orgs with custom objects or buyer-side security review typically take 5–7 days.

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