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Backplane

Shared context for projects that outlive a coding session.

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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.

PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 514 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GitHub

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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 : 85 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #32 of 86 (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 0.48
  • ResumeContext · ph · 2026-09-22 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Syngraphe · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Modulus · hn · 2026-03-10 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • ContextHarbor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • RepoMemory · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • Common context MCP · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • SupraCortex · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38

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