Kanwas, open-source shared context board for teams and agents
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HN · launched Apr 30, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 15%) · 2 views
Niche: visual collaboration and ideation tools · 54 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2B
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Kanwas is a shared context board/canvas UI connecting team notes and agent contexts, easily built with modern frontend canvas libraries, WebSockets, and standard CRUD backends.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude Code, Obsidian
Concerns raised: Setup documentation unclear about external service dependencies beyond LLM API keys, Requires multiple services (Parallels, Composio, sandboxing) for full functionality
Feature requests: README table clarifying required vs optional vs local alternative services
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3735 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #528 of 3736 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 183 days after the earliest competitor.
- Willder, an open source context layer that syncs apps, agents and teams · hn · 2026-11-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- widefleet · github · 2026-10-09 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- agent-message-board · github · 2026-09-23 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- BoCode · github · 2026-09-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents · hn · 2026-06-22 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Wato: a shared AI workspace for teams · yc · 2026-06-03 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Glen: A shared learning layer for all the agents in your organization · yc · 2026-08-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- TeamCodex · github · 2026-09-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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