Vibe Kanban
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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.
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.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 73%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Promising kanban concept for AI work
“their project is great, there's a lot in the planning space that would be extremely useful”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents” “Vibe-kanban did fail but I don't think their idea was wrong, but rather the execution”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “Zed: Delta” “pretty cool concept of how kanban could work in an AI future”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI” Mature-looking with many features
“Vibe Kanban is indeed a treasure trove in terms of useful features.”
Comment from 22 May 2026 in “Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card” “Vibe Kanban which looked quite mature with lots of features”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer”
Other agent orchestrators people recommend
The four most recommended other agent orchestrators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas Town | 95 | 212 | 31% | 10 | 1 mo3 owners | — |
| Conductor | 58 | 25 | 70% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Superset | 33 | 16 | 67% | 8 | 2 mo4 owners | Approved |
| Scion by Google | 28 | 32 | 47% | 8 | — | — |
| Vibe KanbanThis page | 11 | 4 | 73% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
16 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“But then it IIRC went in some weird directions.”
“Vibe-kanban did fail but I don't think their idea was wrong, but rather the execution”
“keeping up with upstream was a significant burden even with LLMs”
“Vibe Kanban is indeed a treasure trove in terms of useful features.”
“they didn't see a path to profitability and have stopped investing in the project”
“vibe-kanban exists you could already do a proper experiment”
“didn't feel like it added much to my productivity”
“pretty cool concept of how kanban could work in an AI future”
“I didn't love the Git worktree flow when I tried vibe kanban”
“I went down the route of implementing a full harness for a while like Vibe Kanban, but the issue was that it was unlikely”
“Vibe Kanban which looked quite mature with lots of features”
“These are all proto orchestrators. No one has discovered/converged on what agent orchestration actually looks like.”
“More simple and similar app”
“I've been really impressed with https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban to do this.”
“their project is great, there's a lot in the planning space that would be extremely useful”
“supports similar features across multiple projects and multiple coding CLIs”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.