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Kaneo – An open source project management platform

by saturn5k on 2/22/25, 8:52 PM with 67 comments

  • by stego-tech on 2/22/25, 9:46 PM

    Echoing others: screenshots, demo that doesn't require data harvesting (ahem, "sign ups").

    Personal feedback:

    * Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation. Needs substantially more documentation about production-ready setups at the very least, especially security considerations.

    * Would also add additional Quick Start guides for Kubernetes.

    * Documentation should also cover rationale behind prerequisite choices. RabbitMQ is Broadcom's domain, and there's a lot of sour grapes out there who want to steer clear of them, MPL-licensed or not. If alternatives won't be suggested or offered, then at least explain why a given piece was chosen so other builders can explore contributing alternatives.

    All in all, the essentials seem to be coming along nicely. Just take the time to document, document, document now, so you're not treading technical debt later should its use take off.

  • by superfrank on 2/22/25, 11:39 PM

    I was super interested in this, but I bounced from your landing page after about 30 second. Echoing what everyone else says:

    - Put screenshots on the landing page

    - If I click "Try Demo" I just get sent to a log in page and I have no idea what to do next. I don't even want to try a demo, I just want to know what the damn product looks like. If I've got to create an account just to see your product, that's an instant bounce from me.

    Fixing both of those would be ideal, but fixing even one would be a massive help.

  • by aacevski on 2/22/25, 10:41 PM

    Hey y'all, I'm Andrej. The developer behind Kaneo. Sorry for not inserting any screenshots. Honestly this software is still in beta and I'm still working on this. Thank you for the feedback. I had

    - I will remove the sign ups for the demo - Add more screenshots

    This is a passion project as someone mentioned. I love open source and it will always stay free. Hopefully I'll be able to share it whenever it's complete it.

    PS: I had no idea this was posted here

    Thank you all.

  • by fuomag9 on 2/22/25, 9:57 PM

    If a GRAPHICAL software project doesn't have screenshots I'm not even considering deploying it

  • by gclawes on 2/22/25, 9:23 PM

    I wish you could do the demo without having to sign up

  • by remram on 2/22/25, 9:58 PM

    No screenshot, no video, can't middle-click on any of the links. This is a terrible landing page!

    I hope the product is different, but I have no way to find out since no public demo.

  • by eGQjxkKF6fif on 2/23/25, 1:35 AM

    Here's some screenshots I took: https://imgur.com/a/gpbQ1cZ

  • by pratio on 2/22/25, 10:15 PM

    Congratulations on the release. While I echo the sentiments from others that screenshots or a video would've been very useful, the signup works without an email confirmation which is great, so I was able to see how the interface looks like. It has a very linear like feel https://linear.app/.

    - If you could deploy a demo that doesn't require a signup/sign in, it'll make things a lot easier. You can reset it every x hours.

    - The feature list is empty as I can't see what it offers or a comparison to other tools.

    - After creating a task, I can't edit it.

    Project management is very complicated and there's different groups of users, which one is yours? Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source. Small shops that need something cheap? Hobbyists or students?

    I'm selfhosting vikunja https://vikunja.io/ at the moment. Opensource and supports my selfhosted sso.

    You can find more here

    https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab...

    https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab...

    Once again kudos on releasing and opensourcing it.

  • by preezer on 2/22/25, 9:24 PM

    Screenshots where? Insert asking ape meme

  • by robertclaus on 2/22/25, 10:03 PM

    Looking at the GitHub project, this looks to be a passion project more than a community driven one. It's great to see a project like that getting some eyes and potentially attracting contributors. If anything, the main website is a little misleading in this regard.

    Little technical nitpick - I would have prioritized moving off of a shared-volume sqlite database before introducing a backend message queue.

  • by rixed on 2/23/25, 9:11 AM

    When trying a demo of some online tool, I'm always a bit sad to land onto an empty space devoid of any trial data. Please authors out there: think about offering a pre-populated demo instance instead, so that it's much simpler to see what the app looks like for real. Also, an interresting data set speaks more in favor of your project than a black screen.

  • by rixed on 2/23/25, 9:04 AM

    I got the same issue than already reported: When trying to edit a task, all I got is a black screen saying "Task edit". Nothing seamingly related in the JS console.

    Also, I was mostly interrested to have a look at the "project timeline" but it's not obvious where to access that. Same goes for the automation part. How to access that?

  • by aacevski on 2/24/25, 9:32 PM

    After cooling off for some days, I made the demo open for everyone. I'm still trying to process all the requests.

    Again, thank you HackerNews, this is a dream to me and I can't believe the traction this projected received.

  • by jsomedon on 2/23/25, 4:49 AM

    The point of demo is to make it as easy as possible to try your product. Having people register really defeats the purpose. Either get rid of login phase for demo, or at least prefill input fields with some demo user/password pair.

  • by apatheticonion on 2/23/25, 7:19 AM

    Would be cool if this had a terraform script and was deployable to an AWS serverless stack (lambda, lambda SSE for sockets, SQS, Aurora serverless, cognito).

    It would be surprising if anyone broke out of free tier and it makes hosting a breeze.

  • by gatienboquet on 2/22/25, 10:45 PM

    > Click on the website

    > After spending 20 sec on the website i have no idea what the app look like

    > Leave

  • by G1N on 2/22/25, 9:44 PM

    The "Features" and "Community" links don't navigate/ scroll anywhere for me. Using Chrome 133 arm64 on macOS.

    As an aside, is it just me or do a lot of these new project management apps coopt Linear's style? Not saying that this is completely derivative, the website just gave me those vibes (and I won't sign up to try out the demo so maybe some screenshots on the front page would be nice :P)

  • by lasarkolja on 2/22/25, 10:41 PM

    Again, please add screenshots And, for the demo, add some meaningful data.

    After I clicked on the demo link, I want to be able to use all functions

  • by slater on 2/23/25, 12:08 AM

    Are the "Features" and "Community" links at the top supposed to not work? Firefox, MacOS

  • by e-m-p on 2/23/25, 2:08 AM

    +1 on screenshots and not requiring data harvesting. I was intrigued, but lost interest quickly.

  • by gatienboquet on 2/22/25, 10:47 PM

    Quick tips : You homepage should be the product on "demo" mode without any login.

  • by kaan_keskin on 2/22/25, 10:44 PM

    Seems good but still in progress I think. Task edit page not implemented yet

  • by ujkiolp on 2/23/25, 5:00 AM

    How many users close tab when they see the sign up?

  • by gatienboquet on 2/22/25, 10:46 PM

    I have no idea how to log on the demo.

  • by KaoruAoiShiho on 2/22/25, 10:51 PM

    Broken after adding a project.