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title: "Tickwell: an issue tracker for a software team"
author: "@chris"
author_url: https://elements.dev/users/chris
published: 2026-09-30T18:27:38.160Z
url: https://elements.dev/demos/bbu3faeo/tickwell-an-issue-tracker-for-a-software-team
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# Tickwell: an issue tracker for a software team

by [@chris](https://elements.dev/users/chris) · 2026-09-30

## Description

Keyed issues on a drag-and-drop board and a filtered list, with comment threads, a full change history, assignment emails and CSV import, all live.

Tickwell needed a board and a list that every teammate sees change at once, a history of every edit, email when work is assigned or discussed, team invites and CSV import. Each of those is a part of Elements, so the agent spent its 20 minutes on the tracker itself.

**What Elements gave the app**

- **A live board and list.** Issues are a LiveTable opened per project. Dragging a card is an update through the view, so every open board and list moves with it. Comments and the issue history are LiveTables too.
- **History in one place.** The board, the form and the importer all create issues through one function, and every update compares the row before and after inside a transaction, recording each changed field. A database trigger hands out keys such as WEB-14.
- **Email from background jobs.** Assignments, comments and invites each schedule a job that sends its email, inside the same transaction as the change.
- **Invites and roles.** Admins invite teammates by email through an `@rpc`, and every rpc and LiveTable handler checks the signed-in user and their role.
- **CSV import as a function call.** The import page sends the file to an rpc for a preview, then inserts each row through the project's live view, so open boards fill in as the issues land.
- **Data from SQL files.** Two migrations define the tracker and seed three teammates, two projects with 19 issues, their history and comments, and a pending invite.

**What the project server gave the agent**

The project server runs alongside the agent and answers as soon as a file is saved: it type-checks the templates, TypeScript and SQL, applies migrations and reruns the tests, so every question came back right away and the agent kept building.

**What shipped**

The app type-checks with zero errors and all 31 tests pass. Every page works on desktop and phone, and live updates arrive across tabs, such as a card dragged to a new column.