Vibe Kanban

Vibe Kanban is an open-source board for running several coding agents at once, and the site now leads with its own ending: a banner states that the product is sunsetting and that the project continues as open source and community maintained, and a post signed by Louis Knight-Webb and dated 10 April 2026 announces the shutdown of bloop, the company behind it, because most users stayed on the free tier and no business model held. The tool runs locally, launched with npx vibe-kanban, and the workflow it publishes is to plan an issue, prompt an agent, then review the diff; it switches between Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode, automates git worktrees and setup scripts, takes comments on generated code, starts dev servers and supports click-to-edit on components, with issue tracking and PR review around all of it.

It suits a developer or small team already running several agents who wants the review queue in one place, and the local-first, open-source architecture is now the reason to look at it rather than a consolation: the shutdown post says local workspaces keep working, that a data export exists, and that the remote services — issues, comments, projects and organisations — continue for thirty days before the move to a fully local design. It suits less well anyone who needs hosted collaboration, a support channel or a roadmap with a company behind it: invoiced subscriptions were terminated with refunds for the last thirty days, and the future of the hosted features is explicitly left to a community roadmap.

Not verified: what was read on 12 October 2026 were the homepage, the shutdown post and the navigation, so the pricing page, the documentation and the repository were not opened and the current feature set, the licence and what remains of any hosted tier were not checked. The figures on the page — GitHub stars, pull requests created and active users — are the project's own. The testimonials are attributed to named individuals but were not verified. No agent was run here, so the parallel workflow was not tested, and whether the community-maintained edition still ships on a schedule was not established.

Status note: the homepage carries a banner reading “Vibe Kanban is sunsetting. The project will continue as open source and community maintained,” and the post titled “Goodbye bloop,” signed by Louis Knight-Webb and dated 10 April 2026, states that bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, is being shut down that day because the vast majority of users were on the free tier and no business model could be found that the team could get excited about. Per that post, the latest version of Vibe Kanban includes a data export feature; the remote services — kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations — remain available for 30 days, after which the product moves to a fully local architecture; refunds have been issued for any invoices paid in the last 30 days and subscriptions have been terminated; and local workspaces will continue to function. That is what the pages opened on 2026-10-12 say. The listing is kept and points at the product's own page.