# Vibe Kanban

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Vibe Kanban and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Open-source kanban app for planning and running parallel coding agents across projects; people praise its features and concept. Caveat: development stopped over profitability concerns.

## Why people recommend it

- Promising kanban concept for AI work (3 comments): "their project is great, there's a lot in the planning space that would be extremely useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433646)) "Vibe-kanban did fail but I don't think their idea was wrong, but rather the execution" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281964)) "pretty cool concept of how kanban could work in an AI future" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346687))
- Mature-looking with many features (2 comments): "Vibe Kanban is indeed a treasure trove in terms of useful features." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241963)) "Vibe Kanban which looked quite mature with lots of features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308598))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Conductor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/conductor.md): 58 recommend
- [Superset](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superset.md): 33 recommend
- [AX by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ax.md): 15 recommend
- [ctx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ctx.md): 13 recommend
- [Zenflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zenflow.md): 13 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Vibe Kanban", https://hackerapproved.com/p/vibe-kanban/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).
