I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards

Posted by okovooo 2 days ago

I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards(www.npmjs.com)

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helloplanets 2 hours ago|

Six years? I think you're not being candid.

Why is the landing page 100% gated behind a sign up form? Why is this on NPM to begin with? All around weird.

Could be a trojan horse. Just a heads up to anyone about to download this.

This does not help: "Task management service based on the Kanban methodology. Helps decompose the task pipeline and speeds up all stages of your work" Sounds 100% generated by AI tbh.

okovooo 2 hours ago|

I do it alone in my free time. NPM is the easiest way to publish an application. You can install the app locally at your place. And there is also a TG channel, there are posts on the functionality for review.

helloplanets 1 hour ago||

I'm supposed to just blindly boot it up on my computer, with the license explicitly banning decompiling and disassembling the code, so it could sensibly reviewed?

Can you see why I'd be concerned about that?

okovooo 57 minutes ago||

you can run it in a virtual machine. All the code is written in javascript, and you can study it without even decompiling it.

zeafoamrun 4 hours ago||

I looked at some off the shelf task tracking and kanban packages and they didn't do quite what I wanted so I just vibe coded one up. We use it at home now.

My wife even made a special hidden mode for her game https://www.kanbanchaos.com so it can act as a frontend for our actual task tracker. Full taskception

eterm 4 hours ago||

If this will solve the problem with boards, you need to be able to answer 2 questions:

1. What does this do that Trello doesn't?

2. What does Trello do that this doesn't?

pif 3 hours ago||

I keep stating proudly to any team mate and any manager that I've never ever needed a board to know what I had to work on.

maxloh 3 hours ago||

That is a really limiting license.

Per the LICENSE file:

  Modification Ban: The User has no right to change, modify, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on the Program.

  Distribution Ban: The User has no right to distribute the Program without the prior written permission of the Licensor.

gwerbin 3 hours ago||

It's source-available proprietary software that happens to be distributed through NPM.

oefrha 2 hours ago||

It's not source available, there's only bundled minified code looking like https://unpkg.com/ooko@0.121.0/static/js/main..js

If this is source available then every website is source available.

reactordev 1 hour ago||

But every website is source available. How else would you render it? Streaming PNGs?

okovooo 3 hours ago||

I can't afford a free license. I have no sponsors and have been unemployed for a year. It's rare for a free-source project to succeed, so I decided not to use a free license initially.

inlustra 2 hours ago||

I find this response a little odd. Absolutely respect the work you’ve put in, but explaining that it doesn’t have a free license because you’ve been unemployed is just bad marketing.

“It doesn’t have a free license because I believe in the product and think it stands out enough to warrant people paying for it” is probably the route you want to go.

okovooo 42 minutes ago|||

I'll think about your words, thank you.

brazukadev 45 minutes ago|||

> I find this response a little odd

You find honesty a little odd?

That's quite odd.

subwatch_dev 2 hours ago||

Six years of sticking with one product is the hardest part of solo building. Most of us (myself included) struggle with the opposite problem — shipping too many things and not going deep enough on any of them.

The convergence-to-Jira pattern mentioned in another comment is real, but I think the answer isn't "don't add features" — it's "add features for a narrower audience." A Kanban for 3-person dev teams will always beat a Kanban for everyone.

Curious about your distribution strategy. After 6 years, what's actually working for getting users — SEO, word of mouth, communities?

esperent 2 hours ago||

Is there a username and password for the demo?

TipsForCanoes 4 hours ago||

Can you show the capacity and flow management parts?

reactordev 1 hour ago||

Claude could zero-shot this.

mfgadv99 2 hours ago|

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