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.
Im curious about the choice of Next.js for an open source project as Next.js is notoriously painful to deploy to anything other than Vercel.
> Kanban reimagined
"reimagined" is a weird tagline given that your list of features is the same as Trello's (and Taiga's, etc). Don't get me wrong, I love opensource alternatives, but you did not "reimagine" to make the same thing.
Some years ago, I used Kanboard (it written in php): https://kanboard.org/ . It was ugly but useful (and easy to install because I remember that it didn't need any data base).
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!!
Trello pricing just got a lot more reasonable, but there is one feature that might get me thinking of moving: conditional logic in automations.
Be advised that Trello is now $5/mo. It's gonna be hard to compete here.
Congrats, strong start.
The project seems nice, but how good is that domain name
> "I couldn’t find an ... alternative ... that I liked so I built my own."
Congrats! That's a brave move. I've been using Kanboard for years. Good luck with your project!
I absolutely love Trello. Visually super appealing, very fast interface with shortcuts, and an API that allows me to do all sorts of automations (although it offers automations out of the box).
Will check out your solution.
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.
biggest problems with trello, having using it 14 years or so - if user deletes card/list/board it's gone forever for whole group - i want to share board with secret link(no login) but this user cannot have rights to open any card, maybe just comment. Not available at all in trello
Great project, will give it a try, we've been using another open source trello clone that has been pretty solid and very closely clones the trello UI.
I'm in search of something simple like this.
I tried the demo at https://kan.bn/kan/roadmap but clicking on the card shows the skeleton placeholder, doesn't seem to load the card content.
Thank you to those who referenced kanboard in this thread. I got it running and it is sweet:
$ docker pull kanboard/kanboard:latest
$ docker run -d --name kanboard -p 8080:80 -e PLUGIN_INSTALLER=true kanboard/kanboard:latest
(admin/admin)
> Kanban reimagined
In which way exactly?
Also, is there a demo account to try it out?
Congratulation on releasing this project, despite some of the criticism mentioned here.
One issue I encountered. I cannot seem to create lists containing works like Todo, Done, .... No error message is shown. Creating lists with random strings always work though.
This looks really nice! I loved trello and I'm always happy to see alternatives. My two cents: I use the keyboard a lot, so when I hit "enter" on a form, e.g. to create a board, it closes the popup instead of creating that board.
IMHO many "open source alternatives to" should drop that tagline.
This sentence is the first thing I read, and likely the last.
I don't know what "Trello" is. I don't see what your project or app could do for me. Even if I knew Trello, I wouldn't know why does it need an alternative. (Trello was (is?) great for personal use, by non-technical people.)
"A powerful, flexible kanban app that helps you organise work, track progress, and deliver results—all in one place." This is your selling point, not what your app isn't.
Nice one, more of a random question: are you planning on having paid only features for the project, or have it fully self-hosted version be the same in terms of features as the hosted one?
Random curious question. I was pondering the kanban backend. How do you store the order of the kanban cards in your database and keep that in sync with what's in the UI?
Why are people still building new projects with react and next.js? This is why we have 1000 trello alternatives.
https://kanboard.org ist better for self hosting. Runs on any cheap LAMP
It would be interesting to build an app like this designed specifically to run on Cloudflare workers.
- Essentially free for moderate use
- Use CF Access for simple access control
- Easier self-hosting because it is designed for a specific target environment
- No servers to worry about
- Could build AI integrations easily
Does anybody else have an issue with the like $8/user/month price point that products like this have coalesced around? I feel like a service like this should be like $1-5/user/year, at most.
I also made a minimalist Trello clone, but it is single-user (no authentication). Runs on just the basic LAMP stack. https://tellor.cc/
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.
Congrats, any plans to add it as a Collify app?
Hi! Your license link is a 404, just FYI
I'll take anything that allows more than one assignee per task. Is that the case?
Spanish language would be the only missing piece for my org, great job!
having mardown support for code blocks would be good.
what's that '.bn' extension? Banana Republic?
Cool app though
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.
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 is no kanban board, it's just .md files in a folder.
I am continuing to test this, as transfer of context between AI sessions is an interesting challenge, and leveraging md files as if they are kanban / agile style cards, is interesting.
trello has gotten worse and worse actually could charge for features like n8n and more extensibility. Its gotten the opposite of kanban and zen where I just want clean cards it forces weird views and panels and overlays and difficult to find boards now it wants you to switch to other atlassian products from trello as a priority on the left over just trello unfortunately its the classic indie product amazing then eaten by Private equity until just crumbs are left and its just an acquisition vehicle until it turns rotten and shut down as a cost saver.
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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
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Just use Linear.
Hey HN,
I couldn’t find an open-source alternative to Trello that I liked so I built my own.
It’s fast, free and fully-customisable. You can self host it, or use the cloud version if you don’t want to manage your own infra.
Repo -> https://github.com/kanbn/kan
Cloud -> https://kan.bn
Roadmap -> https://kan.bn/kan/roadmap
I’d love feedback, bug reports, or any feature suggestions!