Kanban-CLI
a web UI for local Markdown todo lists
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As we all are, I've been experimenting with ways to reduce external saas spend, and continually bring traditionally external pieces of context (prs, docs, trello boards) into the one mono repo.I have toyed with a markdown todo list and setting claude/codex into a "ralph" loop previously, but always missed the web ui for organising, planning, and tracking things in progress.So codex and I build kanban-cli, an installable or npx-runnable cli util that takes one or more markdown files, and uses markdown headers and todo syntax to track and manage agentic tasks.Let me know your thoughts, or if you've got a more convenient way of managing tasks!I was tempted to link to the project landing page https://kanban-cli.vochsel.com as I made a cute example demo, but linking to the repo felt less self-promo-y.Cheers!
HN · launched May 5, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views
Niche: kanban project management tools · 25 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A local CLI tool that reads markdown files from disk, parses task lists, and serves a local web Kanban board is a classic solo-developer utility.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Use '#' for title and '##' for column names in markdown
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 256 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 257 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 172 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Jokateko · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Agent Kanban · ph · 2026-11-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker) · hn · 2026-01-14 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- docs-cli · hn · 2026-05-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Marky · hn · 2026-04-16 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- pangu-cli-theme · github · 2026-10-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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