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Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Hey HN! I'm Louis, one of the creators of Vibe Kanban.

We started working on this a few weeks ago. Personally, I was feeling pretty useless working synchronously with coding agents. The 2-5 minutes that they take to complete their work often led me to distraction and doomscrolling.

But there's plenty of productive work that we (human engineers) could be doing in that time, especially if we run coding agents in the background and parallelise them.

Vibe Kanban lets you effortlessly spin up multiple coding agents. While some agents handle tasks in the background, you can focus on planning future work or reviewing completed tasks.

After a few weeks of internal dog fooding and sharing it with friends, we've now open-sourced Vibe Kanban, and it's stable enough for day-to-day use.

I'd love to hear your feedback, feel free to open an issue on the github and we'll respond ASAP.

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I used this last week and it's excellent - feels like the same increase in productivity increase from when I first used Cursor.

Are you thinking of doing a hosted version so I can have my team collab on it?

And I found I could open lots of PRs at once but they often need to be dependent on each other - and then I want to make a change to the first one. How are you thinking of better managing that flow?

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I tried to build something similar but in a peer-to-peer fashion and for humans + AI. It was supposed to be like a Kanban board that could scale to any team size and use Planning AI to ingest/match/monitor work realtime across teams and agents. I ran out of steam and couldn’t get funding but here is the prototype version:

https://postwork-alpha.vercel.app/

User: maryann.biaggioli@astarconsulting.com

Pass: Test1234!

I never got to a point where I actually integrated AI agents (weren’t as good at the time) but it’s cool to see it working in the real world!

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How does this compare with Backlog.md? [1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483530

Hi, co-author of this project here!

In Vibe Kanban you can directly interact with Claude Code from within the Kanban board. E.g. you can write out a ticket, hit a button to run it locally with Claude Code/Gemini etc., watch its responses, and then review any diffs that it generated.

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I built something similar for my own workflow. Works okay. The hard part is as you scale, you end up with compounded false affirmatives. Model adds some fallback mechanism that makes it work, tests pass, etc. The nice part is you can ask models to review the code from others, call out fallbacks, hard coding, stuff like that. It does a good job at identifying buried bodies. But if you dig up a buried body, I'd manually confirm it was properly disposed of as the models usually hid the body in the first place because they needed some input they didn't have, got confused or ran into an issue.

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How does this compare with Backlog.md? [1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483530

Hi, co-author of this project here! In Vibe Kanban you can directly interact with Claude Code from within the Kanban board. E.g. you can write out a ticket, hit a button to run it locally with Claude Code/Gemini etc., watch its responses, and then review any diffs that it generated.

Thank you! I was taking a look at the docs, and I'm going to play with it later today. Thanks for sharing and congrats on shipping!

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This is a launch by a YC company that converts enterprise cobol code into java. Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc.

It's chaos. Thats fine if you are vibe coding an unimportant nextjs/vercel demo, but i'm really sceptical of all this stance that you should be proud of how abstracted you are from code. A kanban board to just shoot off as many tasks as possible and just quickly read over the PR's is crazy to me. If you want to appear a serious company that should be allowed to write enterprise code, imo this path is so risky. I see this in quite a few podcasts, tweets etc. People bragging how abstracted they are from their own product anymore. Again, maybe i am missing something, but all of this github copilot/just reviewing like 10 coding agents PR's just introduces so much noise and slop. Is it really what you want your image to be as a code company?

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