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Kaneo – An open source project management platform

152 points by saturn5k 2y ago

gclawes 2y ago
I wish you could do the demo without having to sign up
- Xiol32 2y ago
  Bounced out so hard. Not even any screenshots on the first page.
preezer 2y ago
Screenshots where? Insert asking ape meme
- cloudking 2y ago
  Homepage needs a brief demo video in the hero section
G1N 2y ago
The "Features" and "Community" links don't navigate/ scroll anywhere for me. Using Chrome 133 arm64 on macOS. As an aside, is it just me or do a lot of these new project management apps coopt Linear's style? Not saying that this is completely derivative, the website just gave me those vibes (and I won't sign up to try out the demo so maybe some screenshots on the front page would be nice :P)
- aacevski 2y ago
  Hey, thank for your feedback. This product wasn't meant to be posted since it's under heavy development. I will add some more screenshots and make the demo possible without signing up.
stego-tech 2y ago
Echoing others: screenshots, demo that doesn't require data harvesting (ahem, "sign ups"). Personal feedback: * Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation. Needs substantially more documentation about production-ready setups at the very least, especially security considerations. * Would also add additional Quick Start guides for Kubernetes. * Documentation should also cover rationale behind prerequisite choices. RabbitMQ is Broadcom's domain, and there's a lot of sour grapes out there who want to steer clear of them, MPL-licensed or not. If alternatives won't be suggested or offered, then at least explain why a given piece was chosen so other builders can explore contributing alternatives. All in all, the essentials seem to be coming along nicely. Just take the time to document, document, document now, so you're not treading technical debt later should its use take off.
- otherme123 2y ago
  You can enter any data in the "register" form as long as it validated (e.g. mail@made.up), it lets you in anyway without mail verification.
  - dietr1ch 2y ago
    Then just give me a button to try anonymously
    - pooper 2y ago
      For anyone who wants my username and password, I tried the following for both username and password. Feel free to use this as your demo (remember your scout's promise though). billg@microsoft.com Edit: looks like I managed to break my instance without even trying. I can't edit my first task that I created. https://demo.kaneo.app/dashboard/workspace/nyxfpvfgkk412xg4net76qyy/project/swzyj2k91dvj3vujxmwg2cbv/task/oae3ugty0lurs30h8uhawe6y https://demo.kaneo.app/dashboard/workspace/nyxfpvfgkk412xg4n... Steps to reproduce: 1. Log in as billg@microsoft.com 2. Click on workspace Microsoft Blue 3. Click on project DataCenters 4. Click on the first task, DAT-1 Build data centers around the world 5. Observe the screen just says "Task edit" with nothing else there.
fuomag9 2y ago
If a GRAPHICAL software project doesn't have screenshots I'm not even considering deploying it
- yodon 2y ago
  "No screenshots, no interest"
remram 2y ago
No screenshot, no video, can't middle-click on any of the links. This is a terrible landing page! I hope the product is different, but I have no way to find out since no public demo.
- layer8 2y ago
  The feature cards trying to look like stacks is also weird. In addition, I would expect clicking on (say) “Visual Task Management” to show a page with a more detailed description of that feature, along with screenshots showcasing it. Lastly, the page doesn’t seem to support light mode.
robertclaus 2y ago
Looking at the GitHub project, this looks to be a passion project more than a community driven one. It's great to see a project like that getting some eyes and potentially attracting contributors. If anything, the main website is a little misleading in this regard. Little technical nitpick - I would have prioritized moving off of a shared-volume sqlite database before introducing a backend message queue.
pratio 2y ago
Congratulations on the release. While I echo the sentiments from others that screenshots or a video would've been very useful, the signup works without an email confirmation which is great, so I was able to see how the interface looks like. It has a very linear like feel https://linear.app/ https://linear.app/. - If you could deploy a demo that doesn't require a signup/sign in, it'll make things a lot easier. You can reset it every x hours. - The feature list is empty as I can't see what it offers or a comparison to other tools. - After creating a task, I can't edit it. Project management is very complicated and there's different groups of users, which one is yours? Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Small shops that need something cheap? Hobbyists or students? I'm selfhosting vikunja https://vikunja.io/ https://vikunja.io/ at the moment. Opensource and supports my selfhosted sso. You can find more here https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#task-management--to-do-lists https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab... https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#software-development---project-management https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab... Once again kudos on releasing and opensourcing it.
- brimstedt 2y ago
  > Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Not necessarily true. Id like to replace jira in an enterprise environment and we do need sso and prefer to self host.
  - lelanthran 2y ago
    What's stopping you moving to self hosted? Jira used to be self hosted, dunno if they still are, but this space for a self hosted enterprise product is already pretty saturated so you should have lots of options.
lasarkolja 2y ago
Again, please add screenshots And, for the demo, add some meaningful data. After I clicked on the demo link, I want to be able to use all functions
aacevski 2y ago
Hey y'all, I'm Andrej. The developer behind Kaneo. Sorry for not inserting any screenshots. Honestly this software is still in beta and I'm still working on this. Thank you for the feedback. I had - I will remove the sign ups for the demo - Add more screenshots This is a passion project as someone mentioned. I love open source and it will always stay free. Hopefully I'll be able to share it whenever it's complete it. PS: I had no idea this was posted here Thank you all.
- adastra22 2y ago
  The fact that it is trending on HN despite the lack of adequate Kandi g page material indicates there is demand for such an app. Keep working on it!
  - tarapichumani 2y ago
    agree, the feedback is a sign of market demand. thanks for sharing this, going to check it out :)
  - adastra22 2y ago
    > Kandi g page landing page
- Jedd 2y ago
  Appreciate it must be frustrating to get a lot of (repeated) suggestions for things that are already further down your todo list. Let me add one and a half. : ) Comparison / advantages (even if anticipated rather than current) over competitive products in this space, which I assume are things like Planka, Kanboard, and other similarly generous and responsibly licensed kanban/project-management tools. Tangentially related, in your documentation a discussion around your architecture decisions - f.e. rabbitmq, sqlite.
- lf-non 2y ago
  This looks fantastic. Thanks for open-sourcing this. For a passion project this looks really polished and well done. I know a lot of people have crazy expectations from open-source projects these days - and many of the comments here echo those, but you can gradually evolve it at your own pace. You don't owe folks anything.
kaan_keskin 2y ago
Seems good but still in progress I think. Task edit page not implemented yet
gatienboquet 2y ago
> Click on the website > After spending 20 sec on the website i have no idea what the app look like > Leave
gatienboquet 2y ago
I have no idea how to log on the demo.
gatienboquet 2y ago
Quick tips : You homepage should be the product on "demo" mode without any login.
KaoruAoiShiho 2y ago
Broken after adding a project.
superfrank 2y ago
I was super interested in this, but I bounced from your landing page after about 30 second. Echoing what everyone else says: - Put screenshots on the landing page - If I click "Try Demo" I just get sent to a log in page and I have no idea what to do next. I don't even want to try a demo, I just want to know what the damn product looks like. If I've got to create an account just to see your product, that's an instant bounce from me. Fixing both of those would be ideal, but fixing even one would be a massive help.
- jofzar 2y ago
  I literally went "no screenshots, ugh. Oh there's a demo page, maybe the demo speaks for itself, oh login/register nah" and went to the comments here
  - oskarw85 2y ago
    Me too
    - jamiedumont 2y ago
      Me three
      - aacevski 2y ago
        Hello, sorry for not making the demo accessible without an account. Currently there's an open issue which I'm working on to do so. This project under heavy development, sorry for the troubles.
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slater 2y ago
Are the "Features" and "Community" links at the top supposed to not work? Firefox, MacOS
- lukefreiler 2y ago
  Same on Chrome/Win11.
eGQjxkKF6fif 2y ago
Here's some screenshots I took: https://imgur.com/a/gpbQ1cZ https://imgur.com/a/gpbQ1cZ
- jofzar 2y ago
  Saying in the nicest way op, this just looks like todoist with a more focus on modern AMOLED/OLED/dark theme.
e-m-p 2y ago
+1 on screenshots and not requiring data harvesting. I was intrigued, but lost interest quickly.
jsomedon 2y ago
The point of demo is to make it as easy as possible to try your product. Having people register really defeats the purpose. Either get rid of login phase for demo, or at least prefill input fields with some demo user/password pair.
ujkiolp 2y ago
How many users close tab when they see the sign up?
apatheticonion 2y ago
Would be cool if this had a terraform script and was deployable to an AWS serverless stack (lambda, lambda SSE for sockets, SQS, Aurora serverless, cognito). It would be surprising if anyone broke out of free tier and it makes hosting a breeze.
rixed 2y ago
I got the same issue than already reported: When trying to edit a task, all I got is a black screen saying "Task edit". Nothing seamingly related in the JS console. Also, I was mostly interrested to have a look at the "project timeline" but it's not obvious where to access that. Same goes for the automation part. How to access that?
rixed 2y ago
When trying a demo of some online tool, I'm always a bit sad to land onto an empty space devoid of any trial data. Please authors out there: think about offering a pre-populated demo instance instead, so that it's much simpler to see what the app looks like for real. Also, an interresting data set speaks more in favor of your project than a black screen.
aacevski 2y ago
After cooling off for some days, I made the demo open for everyone. I'm still trying to process all the requests. Again, thank you HackerNews, this is a dream to me and I can't believe the traction this projected received.

152 points by saturn5k 2y ago

gclawes 2y ago

I wish you could do the demo without having to sign up

Xiol32 2y ago
Bounced out so hard. Not even any screenshots on the first page.

preezer 2y ago

Screenshots where? Insert asking ape meme

cloudking 2y ago
Homepage needs a brief demo video in the hero section

G1N 2y ago

The "Features" and "Community" links don't navigate/ scroll anywhere for me. Using Chrome 133 arm64 on macOS. As an aside, is it just me or do a lot of these new project management apps coopt Linear's style? Not saying that this is completely derivative, the website just gave me those vibes (and I won't sign up to try out the demo so maybe some screenshots on the front page would be nice :P)

aacevski 2y ago
Hey, thank for your feedback. This product wasn't meant to be posted since it's under heavy development. I will add some more screenshots and make the demo possible without signing up.

stego-tech 2y ago

Echoing others: screenshots, demo that doesn't require data harvesting (ahem, "sign ups"). Personal feedback: * Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation. Needs substantially more documentation about production-ready setups at the very least, especially security considerations. * Would also add additional Quick Start guides for Kubernetes. * Documentation should also cover rationale behind prerequisite choices. RabbitMQ is Broadcom's domain, and there's a lot of sour grapes out there who want to steer clear of them, MPL-licensed or not. If alternatives won't be suggested or offered, then at least explain why a given piece was chosen so other builders can explore contributing alternatives. All in all, the essentials seem to be coming along nicely. Just take the time to document, document, document now, so you're not treading technical debt later should its use take off.

otherme123 2y ago
You can enter any data in the "register" form as long as it validated (e.g. mail@made.up), it lets you in anyway without mail verification.
- dietr1ch 2y ago
  Then just give me a button to try anonymously
  - pooper 2y ago
    For anyone who wants my username and password, I tried the following for both username and password. Feel free to use this as your demo (remember your scout's promise though). billg@microsoft.com Edit: looks like I managed to break my instance without even trying. I can't edit my first task that I created. https://demo.kaneo.app/dashboard/workspace/nyxfpvfgkk412xg4net76qyy/project/swzyj2k91dvj3vujxmwg2cbv/task/oae3ugty0lurs30h8uhawe6y https://demo.kaneo.app/dashboard/workspace/nyxfpvfgkk412xg4n... Steps to reproduce: 1. Log in as billg@microsoft.com 2. Click on workspace Microsoft Blue 3. Click on project DataCenters 4. Click on the first task, DAT-1 Build data centers around the world 5. Observe the screen just says "Task edit" with nothing else there.

fuomag9 2y ago

If a GRAPHICAL software project doesn't have screenshots I'm not even considering deploying it

yodon 2y ago
"No screenshots, no interest"

remram 2y ago

No screenshot, no video, can't middle-click on any of the links. This is a terrible landing page! I hope the product is different, but I have no way to find out since no public demo.

layer8 2y ago
The feature cards trying to look like stacks is also weird. In addition, I would expect clicking on (say) “Visual Task Management” to show a page with a more detailed description of that feature, along with screenshots showcasing it. Lastly, the page doesn’t seem to support light mode.

robertclaus 2y ago

Looking at the GitHub project, this looks to be a passion project more than a community driven one. It's great to see a project like that getting some eyes and potentially attracting contributors. If anything, the main website is a little misleading in this regard. Little technical nitpick - I would have prioritized moving off of a shared-volume sqlite database before introducing a backend message queue.

pratio 2y ago

Congratulations on the release. While I echo the sentiments from others that screenshots or a video would've been very useful, the signup works without an email confirmation which is great, so I was able to see how the interface looks like. It has a very linear like feel https://linear.app/ https://linear.app/. - If you could deploy a demo that doesn't require a signup/sign in, it'll make things a lot easier. You can reset it every x hours. - The feature list is empty as I can't see what it offers or a comparison to other tools. - After creating a task, I can't edit it. Project management is very complicated and there's different groups of users, which one is yours? Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Small shops that need something cheap? Hobbyists or students? I'm selfhosting vikunja https://vikunja.io/ https://vikunja.io/ at the moment. Opensource and supports my selfhosted sso. You can find more here https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#task-management--to-do-lists https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab... https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#software-development---project-management https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab... Once again kudos on releasing and opensourcing it.

brimstedt 2y ago
> Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Not necessarily true. Id like to replace jira in an enterprise environment and we do need sso and prefer to self host.
- lelanthran 2y ago
  What's stopping you moving to self hosted? Jira used to be self hosted, dunno if they still are, but this space for a self hosted enterprise product is already pretty saturated so you should have lots of options.

lasarkolja 2y ago

Again, please add screenshots And, for the demo, add some meaningful data. After I clicked on the demo link, I want to be able to use all functions

aacevski 2y ago

Hey y'all, I'm Andrej. The developer behind Kaneo. Sorry for not inserting any screenshots. Honestly this software is still in beta and I'm still working on this. Thank you for the feedback. I had - I will remove the sign ups for the demo - Add more screenshots This is a passion project as someone mentioned. I love open source and it will always stay free. Hopefully I'll be able to share it whenever it's complete it. PS: I had no idea this was posted here Thank you all.

adastra22 2y ago
The fact that it is trending on HN despite the lack of adequate Kandi g page material indicates there is demand for such an app. Keep working on it!
- tarapichumani 2y ago
  agree, the feedback is a sign of market demand. thanks for sharing this, going to check it out :)
- adastra22 2y ago
  > Kandi g page landing page
Jedd 2y ago
Appreciate it must be frustrating to get a lot of (repeated) suggestions for things that are already further down your todo list. Let me add one and a half. : ) Comparison / advantages (even if anticipated rather than current) over competitive products in this space, which I assume are things like Planka, Kanboard, and other similarly generous and responsibly licensed kanban/project-management tools. Tangentially related, in your documentation a discussion around your architecture decisions - f.e. rabbitmq, sqlite.
lf-non 2y ago
This looks fantastic. Thanks for open-sourcing this. For a passion project this looks really polished and well done. I know a lot of people have crazy expectations from open-source projects these days - and many of the comments here echo those, but you can gradually evolve it at your own pace. You don't owe folks anything.

kaan_keskin 2y ago

Seems good but still in progress I think. Task edit page not implemented yet

gatienboquet 2y ago

> Click on the website > After spending 20 sec on the website i have no idea what the app look like > Leave

gatienboquet 2y ago

I have no idea how to log on the demo.

gatienboquet 2y ago

Quick tips : You homepage should be the product on "demo" mode without any login.

KaoruAoiShiho 2y ago

Broken after adding a project.

superfrank 2y ago

I was super interested in this, but I bounced from your landing page after about 30 second. Echoing what everyone else says: - Put screenshots on the landing page - If I click "Try Demo" I just get sent to a log in page and I have no idea what to do next. I don't even want to try a demo, I just want to know what the damn product looks like. If I've got to create an account just to see your product, that's an instant bounce from me. Fixing both of those would be ideal, but fixing even one would be a massive help.

jofzar 2y ago
I literally went "no screenshots, ugh. Oh there's a demo page, maybe the demo speaks for itself, oh login/register nah" and went to the comments here
- oskarw85 2y ago
  Me too
  - jamiedumont 2y ago
    Me three
    - aacevski 2y ago
      Hello, sorry for not making the demo accessible without an account. Currently there's an open issue which I'm working on to do so. This project under heavy development, sorry for the troubles.

deleted 2y ago

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slater 2y ago

Are the "Features" and "Community" links at the top supposed to not work? Firefox, MacOS

lukefreiler 2y ago
Same on Chrome/Win11.

eGQjxkKF6fif 2y ago

Here's some screenshots I took: https://imgur.com/a/gpbQ1cZ https://imgur.com/a/gpbQ1cZ

jofzar 2y ago
Saying in the nicest way op, this just looks like todoist with a more focus on modern AMOLED/OLED/dark theme.

e-m-p 2y ago

+1 on screenshots and not requiring data harvesting. I was intrigued, but lost interest quickly.

jsomedon 2y ago

The point of demo is to make it as easy as possible to try your product. Having people register really defeats the purpose. Either get rid of login phase for demo, or at least prefill input fields with some demo user/password pair.

ujkiolp 2y ago

How many users close tab when they see the sign up?

apatheticonion 2y ago

Would be cool if this had a terraform script and was deployable to an AWS serverless stack (lambda, lambda SSE for sockets, SQS, Aurora serverless, cognito). It would be surprising if anyone broke out of free tier and it makes hosting a breeze.

rixed 2y ago

I got the same issue than already reported: When trying to edit a task, all I got is a black screen saying "Task edit". Nothing seamingly related in the JS console. Also, I was mostly interrested to have a look at the "project timeline" but it's not obvious where to access that. Same goes for the automation part. How to access that?

rixed 2y ago

When trying a demo of some online tool, I'm always a bit sad to land onto an empty space devoid of any trial data. Please authors out there: think about offering a pre-populated demo instance instead, so that it's much simpler to see what the app looks like for real. Also, an interresting data set speaks more in favor of your project than a black screen.

aacevski 2y ago

After cooling off for some days, I made the demo open for everyone. I'm still trying to process all the requests. Again, thank you HackerNews, this is a dream to me and I can't believe the traction this projected received.