Kanwas, open-source shared context board for teams and agents
Details
- External ID
- 47961491
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kanwas, open-source shared context board for teams and agents
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 57
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8470437017994858
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI coding agents and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- shared context board for teams and agents
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 1655 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #228 of 1656 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 183 days after the earliest competitor.
- agent-message-board · github · 2026-09-23 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BoCode · github · 2026-09-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents · hn · 2026-06-22 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Wato: a shared AI workspace for teams · yc · 2026-06-03 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Glen: A shared learning layer for all the agents in your organization · yc · 2026-08-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- TeamCodex · github · 2026-09-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Mantyx · hn · 2026-03-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Kctx · hn · 2026-06-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.