Backplane
Shared context for projects that outlive a coding session.
Details
- External ID
- 1263520
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Backplane
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Backplane keeps work, decisions, dependencies, and review results on one shared board. It is open source, runs on your infrastructure, and connects compatible AI tools through MCP with scoped toolsets.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- persistent context and memory layer for ai coding workflows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An open-source task/context board implementing an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server interface is well within the capabilities of a solo AI-assisted developer.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 29 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 30 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
- Workplane · hn · 2026-05-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ResumeContext · ph · 2026-09-22 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Syngraphe · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Modulus · hn · 2026-03-10 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- ContextHarbor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Context Hub · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Weavable · ph · 2026-05-11 · 234 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- ContextsBase - Backlog for Coding Agents · ph · 2026-09-18 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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