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Show HN: Tokanban, an agent-first task management system

clippy99 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:27:01 +0000

We built an agent-first task management system because legacy tools weren't cutting it

We've been building with AI coding agents daily, and task management kept being a friction point. Markdown file collections, bolted-on MCPs for Jira/Linear, sluggish APIs — or just having agents create work items directly, bypassing whatever UI we were supposedly using.

These tools were never designed with agents in mind. So we rethought it from scratch: agent-first, minimal clutter, built around what you and your agent actually need. The result is Tokanban — simple, scalable, performant, and free.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787943

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New comment by clippy99 in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

clippy99 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:47:29 +0000

I love that subscriptions in the US are (usually) immediately cancellable. Germany is the wild west of predatory subscription plans, and unfortunately the legal framework weighs heavily in favor of the businesses issuing these contracts and not the consumers.

New comment by clippy99 in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

clippy99 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:04:01 +0000

Lengthy article but not even one image of the Moonlander. OP, why do you make me Google it?

New comment by clippy99 in "Why was Apache Kafka created?"

clippy99 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:28:26 +0000

Kafkaesque to configure and get running for simple tasks.

New comment by clippy99 in "Why was Apache Kafka created?"

clippy99 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:25:42 +0000

Startup founder here -- we tried it, and it feels bloated (Java!), bureaucratic and overcomplicated for what it is. Something like Redis queues or even ZMQ probably suffices for 90% of use cases. Maybe in hyper-scaled applications that need to be ultraperformant (e.g., realtime trading, massive streaming platforms) is where Kafka comes into play.

New comment by clippy99 in "Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix"

clippy99 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:13:54 +0000

Who uses google to search anymore? LLMs FTW.

New comment by clippy99 in "LeetCode for System Design"

clippy99 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:35:44 +0000

What the poster is insinuating is that system design interviews may devolve into a scripted / memorized hoop-jumping experience rather than being a creative technical problem solving discussion.

New comment by clippy99 in "Material 3 Expressive"

clippy99 — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:34:56 +0000

How to spend millions on an incremental change -- looks flat and uninspiring as ever...

New comment by clippy99 in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

clippy99 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:59:17 +0000

> Symbian was going to magically fix all their problems.

Really? I remember Symbian had the crappiest and most shoestring C++ dev stack ever.

New comment by clippy99 in "I automated my job application process"

clippy99 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:00:22 +0000

What does solving random puzzles from Leetcode have to do with day-to-day engineering work? IMHO, the emphasis should be on previous experience, CS domain knowledge and systems architecture / design. Maybe degrees need to be fixed to convey more useful knowledge...

New comment by clippy99 in "I automated my job application process"

clippy99 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:19:47 +0000

What about honoring our multi-year college degrees. Isn't that licensing enough?

New comment by clippy99 in "I Automated My Job Application Process"

clippy99 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 22:02:24 +0000

I love the system he built, but the kicker would be to enable auto-filling and submitting on the various career portals. I question the efficacy of submitting job applications via email in 2024 (but perhaps I'm in the wrong industry.)

New comment by clippy99 in "The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles"

clippy99 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:30:36 +0000

Great writeup. Sucks when this gets asked in a coding interview to be solved in 15min :)

New comment by clippy99 in "C++23: Removing garbage collection support"

clippy99 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:05:09 +0000

At first glance I thought this was the headline of a satirical article. :D

New comment by clippy99 in "Caproni Ca.60"

clippy99 — Sat, 13 May 2023 18:28:28 +0000

The cathedral of drag.