Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

mcone | 306 points

If you want to do Kanban right, double down on making it possible to design actual Kanban workflows. Pretty ticket UI with checklists and GIFs must be secondary to this goal.

Things that most actual Kanban flows have that no one has built into a decent product[0]:

    - Nested columns in lanes
    - Rows for class-of-service
    - WIP limits (per lane, per column, and per class-of-service)
    - Sub-boards for meta issues
The actual content of each work item is the least important part of Kanban; it could be a hyperlink for all I care. Kanban is about managing the flow, not managing the work.

[0] Please prove me wrong if there is such a product out there!

tadfisher | 7 years ago

I thought for a second my touchpad just broke. Might want to make the landing page look less like there's content down the fold …

bauerd | 7 years ago

While I like the idea of having open source alternatives to the popular applications, this one is a pure and simple copy of Trello. This is a bit too much IMO.

nsebban | 7 years ago

Gitlab needs a better issue UI and perhaps this could be integrated.

tuukkah | 7 years ago
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| 7 years ago

Trello got so mature, has a great API, is well integrated with Zapier and hundreds of other services AND is free (I still don't know why one should get into the paid plan, even witn bigger teams, the free version is torally fine) that it must be super hard for any clone or competitor to win users.

thinbeige | 7 years ago

I think lack of an OSS alternative with a solid mobile app is the only thing keeping me on Trello at this point.

anderspitman | 7 years ago

Has anyone here had success with a personal kanban board?

Considering it for myself, even if it isn't the intended use case.

Fej | 7 years ago

Does it have Authentication yet? Last time I checked there were no users or administrations or any permissions

number6 | 7 years ago

what's the storage backed for this app ?

Also shout out to https://greggigon.github.io/my-personal-kanban/ that is a simple and offline board

alinspired | 7 years ago

Is it API-compatible with Trello? That would rock, being able to use Trello extensions.

onthetrain | 7 years ago

what i only want to know is why a chinese-like name: kanban, ^_^

yittg | 7 years ago