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louiskw commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

louiskw · 4 months ago

We're building the platform for engineers who spend most of their time planning and reviewing code written by AI. We’re hiring for two senior roles:

Frontend (TypeScript, React): https://jobs.polymer.co/vibe-kanban/36855?source=hn

Backend (Rust): https://jobs.polymer.co/vibe-kanban/36873?source=hn

The project is open source — check it out here: https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

akifq · 8 months ago

Ran Vibe Kanban on a side repo over the weekend it’s slick, but I tripped on one thing: all the agents write into the same checkout, so parallel cards can clobber each other when they touch the same files. I’ve been spinning up a quick `git worktree` per card as a stop gap.

Outside of that, really enjoying the flow.

BTW, if anyone’s juggling multiple agents and wants a “quarantine” layer before changes hit Git, I’m hacking on SAV (Shadow VCS)open source, risk scores every commit and keeps them sandboxed until you approve. Happy to swap notes. https://github.com/AKIFQ/sav

louiskw · 8 months ago

Are you sure you're using vibe-kanban? The project spins up a worktree for each task attempt specifically to solve this problem.

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

TeMPOraL · 8 months ago

Nice, I vote for merging it :).

It really doesn't hurt to be honest about this and ask up-front. This is clear enough and benign enough that I'd actually be happy to opt-in.

louiskw · 8 months ago

Merged and building, thanks for bearing with us

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

sqs · 8 months ago

This is really cool. I used Vibe Kanban with Amp to update some of our docs and UI components, and it was great.

louiskw · 8 months ago

I would say conservatively that 80% of Vibe Kanban has been built by Amp

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

gpm · 8 months ago

Hmm, analytics appear to default to enabled: https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/609f9c4f9e989b59...

It is harvesting email addresses and github usernames: https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/609f9c4f9e989b59...

Then it seems to track every time you start/finish/merge/attempt a task, and every time you run a dev server. Including what executors you are using (I think this means "claude code" or the like), whether attempts succeeded or not and their exit codes, and various booleans like whether or not a project is an existing one, or whether or not you've set up scripts to run with it.

This really strikes me as something that should be, must legally be in many jurisdictions, opt in.

louiskw · 8 months ago

That's fair feedback, I have a PR with a very clear opt-in here https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/pull/146

I will leave this open for comments for the next hour and then merge.

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

uxamanda · 8 months ago

If you use gitlab, you can use the command line "glab" tool to have agents work from the built in kanban. They can open and close tasks, start MRs off of them etc. It's not as integrated as this tool, but works well with a mix of humans and robots.

louiskw · 8 months ago

Interesting, hadn't heard of that. Would better GitLab support be useful in Vibe Kanban?

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

jackbridger · 8 months ago

This is interesting. I’m using Claude Code a fair bit and have found writing specs to be more effective than promoting and this feels closer to that. I can see the appeal of this for simple tasks now and maybe increasingly bigger tasks as models get better.

louiskw · 8 months ago

Very much a bet that things are going to get much much better very quickly

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

gpm · 8 months ago

I definitely don't feel like the models are reliable enough that I'd be more productive running them in parallel like this yet, but I can see a future where I want this.

Their reliability probably varies a lot depending on what you are using them for - so maybe I'm just using them in more difficult (for claude) domains.

louiskw · 8 months ago

Yes I generally cherry pick the easier 50% of my backlog and work on those with Vibe Kanban, and the other 50% is still manual or happens with coding agent but with a human-in-the-loop.

This is a bet that coding agents will continue to get better, and this feels like the right time to try and figure out the interface.

louiskw commented on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com/BloopAI/vibe-k... · Posted by u/louiskw

FailMore · 8 months ago

Do you think you will keep it free or can you see a business model developing around it? If so, what do you think it would be? / How would you split paid tiers vs free users? Not a big deal to me...!! But I'm curious how one might commercialise these types of free/open source projects

louiskw · 8 months ago

I could see there being a long term free offering that doesn't cost us compute or tokens, and probably some other offerings that actually do use resources and would make sense to build a business around.

But that's not a today problem, we just want to absorb feedback and iterate until we build the ultimate tool for working with these coding agents.

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