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Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
- leke 6y agoI don't really like the name. I think it's meant to be pronounced We-Can, which pretty much sums up Kanban, but I automatically think of Weaken, which then makes the product sound like it's going to hinder your workflow in some way.
- vincvinc 6y agoI do most of my thinking and planning on Trello boards. It almost feels like a part of my brain. Ever since Trello was acquired by Atlassian, I've been planning to replace it - in the long term - waiting for signals that Atlassian is degrading my experience. It hasn't happened yet but I am assume that it's a matter of time. I've been wanting an open source Trello clone with a native desktop client for a while now. Going to give this a try. First impression: promising but seems a bit clunky/ugly compared to Trello. Hope I can contribute to the development in some way.
- recusive_story 6y agoGithub has a basic kanban board and since private repositories are free, it can be used as replacement to Trello.
- phillc73 6y agoGitlab also has kanban boards, which I really like. Sometimes I wish I could just use the kanban boards to manage tasks, without having all the associated software development tools in the UI. Or maybe, a better idea would be the ability to log in straight to the boards, without having to navigate via projects etc.
- ochrist 6y agoI have been using Kanboard for some time now, and can recommend it. There is - as far as I know it - not yet a native desktop client, but the web-interface works quite well: https://kanboard.org/ https://kanboard.org/ (not affiliated in any way - just a safisfied user)
- znpy 6y agoThat looks cool! Does it have APIs? Edit: yes it has! I'll be trying this tonight.
- bachmeier 6y agoIt's a php app. All you have to do to run it locally is use the php server: php -S localhost:8001 Open in your browser: localhost:8001/index.php You can also directly access the sqlite database if you want.
- midasz 6y agoAlso running this on a raspberry pi I have stuffed somewhere in a closet, it's genuinely great. Web interface even works decently on mobile (mostly use it for viewing and dragging not creating issues).
- adz_6891 6y agoWhile it is maintained by Atlassian, I found this react library really useful for making customized Trello boards for myself https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd Creating cards that made sense for my use case was fun... I was going to play with adding a card type that I could work on to create notes with my apple pencil, a bit like postit notes... Anyway, a silly side project for me I guess, but worth a look if you're heavily invested in Kanban format
- oatsbarley 6y agoI suppose this only affects you if you have a second account attached to your Trello boards, but there was a thread about Atlassian transferring ownership of personal boards to a company yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578 It's a specific pitfall that -- for a lot of people -- can be easily avoided, but it doesn't speak to them being friendly towards individual users.
- Angostura 6y agoIf you're a Teams user, there's Microsoft Planner.
- mattbk1 6y agoThanks for this reminder. I wish I could view things in Gantt (rather than just calendar) format.
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- hermitcrab 6y agoIf you want a desktop (Windows and Mac) Kanban application you might want to look at: https://www.hyperplan.com https://www.hyperplan.com It is commercial software. I am the author.
- shashanktomar 6y agoThis might change your mind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578
- raybb 6y agoIf you don't mind me asking, how do you organize your thinking/planning a cross boards/projects?
- rhabarba 6y agoAssumption: Most teams which use a kanban system would work just as efficiently with a couple of org-mode files.
- biddlesby 6y agoWhat are org-mode files?
- banachtarski 6y agoWe use images/diagrams/LaTex/etc to communicate a number of tasks that are inherently visual, not to mention needing somewhere on the cloud to access it centrally. As a casual org-mode user, I fail to see how org-mode is really relevant for a team-centric tool.
- rhabarba 6y agoWhat stops you from using graphics in shared org files?
- mikekchar 6y agoI think from a casual user perspective, knowing how to do it ;-)
- banachtarski 6y ago
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- 29athrowaway 6y agoThe font sizes and weights look inconsistent and random.
- ergo14 6y agoSend a PR to fix that, the devs will probably appreciate the help.
- eps 6y agoThat's an empty advice. Vast majority of people will have no desire or time to "send a PR" after seeing it for the first time. And those who will be inclined to do that don't need a public reminder to that effect. But their feedback is still valuable and the "do better and send a PR" remarks achieve nothing but alienating people by looking dismissive of their comments.
- welly 6y agoHow is their feedback useful if no one involved sees it? They may as well have said nothing.
- Anka33 6y agoIf you are good at something, never do it for free.
- unicornporn 6y agoI chose Kanboard[1] for personal user because it's PHP and supports SQLite. I hate becoming an admin for these kind of apps. Also chose FreshRSS over Tiny Tiny RSS for the same reasons. Works by just uploading a directory to my shared hosting. [1] https://kanboard.org/ https://kanboard.org/
- Debonnys 6y agoI really like kanban boards for organizing my work but one feature I really miss in nearly all solutions is a way to schedule my day using existing tasks in a board. And preferably in a stand-alone way rather than adding it to my google calender. I'm currently using paymo [1], which does a great job at this. Example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/3Re9sXn https://imgur.com/a/3Re9sXn But I'm open for switching to any alternatives. [1]: https://www.paymoapp.com/ https://www.paymoapp.com/
- bryanrasmussen 6y agothis is not a feature I have ever missed, and I wonder why you would miss it? I move the task I am working on into in progress and when I am done with it I move it into review or done. If I scheduled my day based on tasks, then when task A was not moved from in progress and task B is scheduled to start what happens? It sounds to me like it would be more problematic - sorry to go on about it but I really am wondering because I've never considered I would want to schedule tasks on a kanban board - how do you see it working?
- deb_yesprocrast 6y agoI follow some practices from Cal Newport Deep Work [1]. In this case it is about scheduling your day (see also this blogpost [2]). I really like the feature in paymo to schedule your working day with tasks that do exist in a kanban board. It ensures that you can quickly see what you're working on when picking things to do during the day and it also ensures that everything you do is in a kanban board. I understand that most people probably don't miss this feature but I have a hard time going back to a system that does not have this. [1]: https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ [2]: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/09/29/deep-habits-three-recent-daily-plans/ https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/09/29/deep-habits-three...
- Jahak 6y agoNot open source and it's sad
- justaguyhere 6y ago
- kalium-xyz 6y agoAnyone using/used this in a team and know if its actually a good replacement for trello?
- thomasDE 6y agoWe have been using it for 3 years now at a small company. There were some minor bugs in the past (mainly UI related), but in general it is a very good replacement for Trello. We run it in a Docker container with LDAP integration so that people can log in with their Windows accounts. The operating of it has been very straightforward.
- carlos22 6y agoWekan uses meteor.js which is really one of the worst frameworks out there. It breaks on so many ocasions and has really bad OS support. Event he current maintainer kind of dislikes the framework... The worst part about metor is that it forces you to use MongoDB!
- extrememacaroni 6y agooh no!
- nebulon 6y agoWhile I tend to agree from a personal perspective, however the Wekan project especially seems to be able to pump out lots of very nice features at a high rate, thanks to meteor. Additionally to this, we at Cloudron update the app package about twice a week due to that and so far had very little breakage or regressions, compared to other apps. We do not update meteor often though, which is maybe contributing to the stability.
- carlos22 6y agoYes that helps but brings in other problems. For example many many security problems in the thousands of used npm packages of meteor and its dependencies.
- enitihas 6y agoUnfortunately thousands of dependencies is not unique to meteor, it is the hallmark of any popular npm package. So even react and vue would have too many dependencies.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI think at a certain point, very restrictive sandboxing is going to be the only way to safely run JavaScript-based projects.
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- cow9 6y agoWe use this daily in our company. Projects are organized as boards. To solve visibility issues across multiple boards we develop a standalone program to consolidate cards from multiple boards to a user view. There has been issues like CPU usage, UI bugs and build issues but on the whole it is still quite useful. Development and releases seems haphazard and there are no unit tests. Only eslint.
- thomasDE 6y agoCan you share the program to consolidate cards? We are also using Wekan in our company and would be very interested in that.
- tuxxy 6y agoIt would be really nice to have something like this that can run locally but meant for a single user. I don't want to have to log in to my own instance or host a bunch of backend services (or even run it in a docker container). Might be a fun weekend project to learn Rust, actually. :)
- bachmeier 6y agoKanboard is very easy to run locally as I explained in my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888108 I don't think replacing Trello is a weekend project, but if you want to learn Rust, you can use Kanboard to track your progress.
- nickjj 6y agoIf anyone is looking for another open source solution, there's https://github.com/greggigon/my-personal-kanban https://github.com/greggigon/my-personal-kanban. What's neat about the above one is it's a single offline html file that you open in your browser and everything is saved to local storage (but it has a JSON export / import feature for more robust backups). Of course that means it's really only usable for 1 person, but if you're a solo developer, it's a breath of fresh air to just open a simple html file without needing to run a service to use it. It's not the prettiest tool but it's very usable. I've been using it to manage a large personal side project. I made a video on that here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/an-open-source-and-fully-offline-browser-based-kanban-board https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/an-open-source-and-fully-offl...
- huhtenberg 6y agoIn the same vein - https://nullboard.io/preview https://nullboard.io/preview or https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard
- alpaca128 6y agoOh, that's exactly what I was looking for. Most kanban software is centered around multiple users and all the cumbersome setup that comes with that assumption.
- AstroJetson 6y agoI like that a lot. It would be super nice if I could change the background of the items. That way I could color code things that really need to get taken care of NOW.
- hermitcrab 6y agoIf you are looking for a personal Kanban application where you can colour the cards, please see: https://www.hyperplan.com https://www.hyperplan.com (I am the author)
- paweladamczuk 6y agoI used Wekan a while ago when I wanted to try a kanban board for organizing my personal tasks at work. Trello was out of question since it stores the data externally. I found the UX on Wekan and Trello were hard to compare, Trello being polished and hassle free while Wekan still felt like work in progress and many things were straight out broken. This was like a year ago, though, so maybe it has improved since.
- dukeofharen 6y agoOn PC, it worked perfectly. On smartphone (Android), it works really bad. That's the reason why I (sadly) had to leave Wekan behind, it just didn't fit my use case because of this.
- shashanktomar 6y agoTrello got other problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578
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- ernsheong 6y agoNot open source, but I built KanRails, a Kanban tool that hopes to become a workflow solution. Part Trello, part Pipefy, and making more Power-Ups part of the core (automation, custom fields, etc.). Check it out at https://www.kanrails.com/ https://www.kanrails.com/. Would love to get feedback from HN!
- jyriand 6y agoThere is also Restyaboard [0] (you have to install it on your server) It's open source Trello like kanban board. I think there was even 1-click droplet install in DigitalOcean. Haven't used it much, so I can't really comment how good/bad it is. 0 - https://restya.com/board https://restya.com/board
- calmchaos 6y agoKanbanly integrates with GMail and Google Tasks. https://nodetics.com/kanbanly/ https://nodetics.com/kanbanly/
- stereolambda 6y agoTo add to the other alternatives: remember that there's Excel, i.e. spreadsheet software. It's my current method for organizing and monitoring my solo work. Some of the useful features: - Handling dates, intervals, boolean values. - Formatting, and conditional formatting. Colors, fonts etc. without the non-utilitarian, "sleek" burden of modern web design. - Collecting reporting information with SUM(), IF(), COUNTIFS() and friends. The main benefit is that it's very flexible with only very minimal programming. I can reserve my coding time and stamina for the tasks that absolutely need it.
- ngmc 6y agoTaiga is another option that you can host yourself. https://taiga.io https://taiga.io
- recrudesce 6y agoHave used a self hosted version of Taiga for years at work hooked into Keycloak for SSO. Works perfectly well for us :)
- jg23 6y agoShameless plug for Mac users: https://apps.apple.com/app/tidycards/id1285199566 https://apps.apple.com/app/tidycards/id1285199566 I've been developing this app for the last 3 years.
- rcdexta 6y agoWould like to leave this here: https://github.com/rcdexta/react-trello https://github.com/rcdexta/react-trello Again, this is a pluggable trello-like kanban board built using React and Redux. It's highly customizable, uses event-bus to publish triggers/actions and supports touch devices.
- indentit 6y agothe disclaimer about backups is a bit scary... makes me want to use something a bit more reliable/recoverable/version controllable... > Backups of Wekan database with mongodump once a day miminum required. Bugs, updates, users deleting list or card, harddrive full, harddrive crash etc can eat your data. There is no undo yet.