Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#191

Post by sakesun » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 7:19 AM UTC

wood_spirit wrote: post #120

This will sound crazy but I wish there was an open source “everything” app. If this could grow into a slack alternative (where channels can host a kanban board) with http bot api and built in charting and dashboards and python notebook snippets etc etc so we can get things in one place… that would be great!!

Huly.io describe themselves exactly as "Everything App"

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#192

Post by yolkedgeek » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 7:37 AM UTC

Why are people still building new projects with react and next.js? This is why we have 1000 trello alternatives.

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#193

Post by yolkedgeek » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 7:38 AM UTC

mbesto wrote: post #154

stevekemp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does it compare to the existing open-source boards, such as: https://wekan.github.io/ https://taiga.io/ https://kanboard.org/

I went down the rabbit hole of self hosted kanban boards recently. Honestly, nothing comes close to Trello and while I love the open source communities (and supporting them), these alternatives usually dont come close, or worse they try to be super feature rich and its get in the way of their functionality. The better open source options tend to be airtable alternatives or full blown project management tools (Eigenbo…

Plane is so sick. I think it's better than trello

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#194

Post by jasonm23 » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:09 AM UTC

yolkedgeek wrote: post #193

mbesto wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went down the rabbit hole of self hosted kanban boards recently. Honestly, nothing comes close to Trello and while I love the open source communities (and supporting them), these alternatives usually dont come close, or worse they try to be super feature rich and its get in the way of their functionality. The better open source options tend to be airtable alternatives or full blown project management tools (Eigenbo…

Plane is so sick. I think it's better than trello

Thank you, I hadn't heard of Plane... and ... nice

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#195

Post by henryball » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:29 AM UTC

capitanazo77 wrote: post #127

Spanish language would be the only missing piece for my org, great job!

Thank you! Added multi language support to the roadmap

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

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Post by henryball » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:32 AM UTC

satellite2 wrote: post #128

I'll take anything that allows more than one assignee per task. Is that the case?

You can indeed! There's also plans to allow custom restrictions on resources if wanted to limit cards to one assignee

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#197

Post by henryball » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:34 AM UTC

jacktheturtle wrote: post #129

Hey this is awesome. It's exciting to see people launch side projects like this. The UI/UX looks very nice. Thanks for building and sharing.

This is really great to hear, thank you for the feedback :)

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#198

Post by henryball » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:35 AM UTC

notyouraibot wrote: post #11

Just use Linear.

Linear is great, but it's not the same as Trello and it's not open source

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#199

Post by column » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:38 AM UTC

Feedback : when creating a workspace, a board, or a list, pressing "Enter" is not the same as clicking the "Create" button which is the only button visible. Pressing "Enter" does not create the list.

For a new user like me, the difference between a workspace, a board, and a list is not obvious. A one image explanation would be welcomed.

Re: Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

#200

Post by henryball » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:50 AM UTC

artur_makly wrote: post #126

This may sound sarcastic..but have you considered retrofitting it with LLMs? The #1 problem with Kanbans is CARD-ROT. AI should fix that in a plethora of ways. Shouldn't be too hard to vibe-code that into existing on a mate-fueled weekend !/s

I would only consider adding LLMs if they could solve a real problem for users in a unique way that couldn't be easily achieved by automation rules. I'm definitely not against it, but I would have to see a real use case first. MCP support for the API would be a good starting point!