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

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Post by AnonC »

Suggestion to the OP: please consider adding a family plan at a lower monthly price point.

On this topic, I really love Kanban boards, but a hosted version (or self-hosted) is not as appealing to me as a native app with some sync.

Years ago, I used to use a closed source but free desktop app on Windows (now long discontinued though) and found that it worked very well for me to track my work.

Apple’s Reminders app has Lists that can be further divided into Sections and then viewed and used (kinda) like a Kanban board, but the UX is not great. The macOS apps, especially, are an abomination with Catalyst.

I’m still looking for a native app that has a simple sync using iCloud or Dropbox. Plus no subscriptions (a one time price per version may be ok). The usage would be for one or two users.

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

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Post by bryanhogan »

esskay wrote: post #40

Feels like Trello alternatives are the next ToDo list. There's so many of them these days that I struggle to grasp why anyone thinks launching an opensource one and thinking they can turn a profit with a cloud version is ever going to work. In all likelihood the project will be abandoned in 6 months and the site offline in 12.

The amount of high quality Kanban / Trello-like options is low while the need for these is very high. At the same time getting started in building such a tool doesn't require a lot of resources.

I think it's a good thing and I hope to see one that can replace my Notion Kanban soon.

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

#54

Post by croisillon »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #37
croisillon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and Nullboard: https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard i don't understand the wave of downvotes but whatever

Pretty obviously because this one is very different in philosophy (minimalism) than the one OP is working on while the other ones that have been posted aim for feature parity (at least) with Trello?

OK, i see

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

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Post by digger495 »

akshayKMR wrote: post #39
digger495 wrote: post #16

[flagged]

What do you mean?

Limiting the amount of work in progress is, in my opinion, the single reason to focus on Kanban.

https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban/wip-limits

Of course, most tools get this wrong, so it's not surprising that it's missing here.

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

#56

Post by cjbgkagh »

karn97 wrote: post #32
calrain wrote: post #27

I've been testing using AI coding agents by asking an AI acting as a software designer to build a set of kanban style cards as .md files in a directory, designing the work we talked about into cards for AI developers. It works quite well, and then you can review the cards (as files) and then ask another AI agent running as whatever role is suitable for that card, to pick up the card by name and do the work. But there…

What is with you people and the quest of degrading your own while feeling really happy about it like it's some amazing thing?

But degrading an other is ok? From the very beginning tech was about making jobs easier, and now it’s easier to make jobs easier, including our own. So I think it’s ethically consistent to be happy about both, even if our own jobs are at risk.

My rational as to why this is a good thing in general was and remains a focus on generating consumer surplus, it’s this surplus which we as a people derive our wealth. The hope was that the surplus would be sufficient to cover the loss of those that lost their jobs, either in wealth redistribution or in new opportunities.

What’s different this time is productivity increases are not being met with an increase in demand. This will drastically increase inequality and to a lesser extent civil unrest, and I think both are destructive. I think financialization of the economy did greater damage, and the combination of both is going to really suck. I would prefer we keep productivity improvements and reverse the financialization even if that means pensions are decimated - they are probably going to be decimated anyway. Better to do it in a way that causes less damage.

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

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Post by ensemblehq »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #49
esskay wrote: post #40

Feels like Trello alternatives are the next ToDo list. There's so many of them these days that I struggle to grasp why anyone thinks launching an opensource one and thinking they can turn a profit with a cloud version is ever going to work. In all likelihood the project will be abandoned in 6 months and the site offline in 12.

The market for an on-premise, developer maintained solution is way bigger for a product like this than the cloud version. We made the exact same, incorrect assumption with https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith several years ago. The market for data sensitive on-premise delpoyments is a LOT bigger than most people would imagine. For Flagsmith, the majority of our revenue comes from on-premise deployments.

Wholeheartedly agree. On-prem is still a major market to play in and have worked on many consulting engagements architecting software that plays nicely. Just curious - how do you guys deploy Flagsmith on-prem? I'm still trying to find a nice deployment pattern that aligns well with both client and vendor.

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

#58

Post by senorrib »

walthamstow wrote: post #5
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/

Also https://github.com/plankanban/planka

Planka is not open-source.

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

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Post by libraryatnight »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #49
esskay wrote: post #40

Feels like Trello alternatives are the next ToDo list. There's so many of them these days that I struggle to grasp why anyone thinks launching an opensource one and thinking they can turn a profit with a cloud version is ever going to work. In all likelihood the project will be abandoned in 6 months and the site offline in 12.

The market for an on-premise, developer maintained solution is way bigger for a product like this than the cloud version. We made the exact same, incorrect assumption with https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith several years ago. The market for data sensitive on-premise delpoyments is a LOT bigger than most people would imagine. For Flagsmith, the majority of our revenue comes from on-premise deployments.

"The market for an on-premise, developer maintained solution..."

This made me laugh because at work we've been joking, "We've finished moving to the cloud! What now? We must get out of the cloud!"

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

#60

Post by kingkongjaffa »

bryanhogan wrote: post #52
esskay wrote: post #40

Feels like Trello alternatives are the next ToDo list. There's so many of them these days that I struggle to grasp why anyone thinks launching an opensource one and thinking they can turn a profit with a cloud version is ever going to work. In all likelihood the project will be abandoned in 6 months and the site offline in 12.

The amount of high quality Kanban / Trello-like options is low while the need for these is very high. At the same time getting started in building such a tool doesn't require a lot of resources. I think it's a good thing and I hope to see one that can replace my Notion Kanban soon.

What makes it high quality in your experience?

(I’m doing customer research for my own kanban startup) /s

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