Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

  • perishthethought@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Story time! (YMMV as they say)

    I decided I wanted to self host an app like this just a few weeks ago. I started with Focalboard but just could not get it running as a personal server instance on Docker. (This could entirely be on me as I am very much still learning) I got confused in the whole what's Mattermost / what's still part of Focalboard talk, and I wanted to use a Docker compost file but they don't have one on this page. I got an instance running anyway, but the site wasn't responding when I tried to load it in my browser. I've made this work now for about 8 other apps but just could not find the root cause with this one.

    I ended up installing and loving Planka though. For my extremely simple use case, it's just right. The docker installation was dead simple and it 'just works' for me.

    https://planka.app/
    and
    https://docs.planka.cloud/docs/installation/docker/production_version

  • OSH@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Initially Focalboard looked very interesting until mattermost decided to not support it anymore and leaving it's future tangling in the air.

    Other options I am also looking into besides the ones mentioned are

    • https://vikunja.io/
    • https://taiga.io/ (waiting on their next version)
    • grapemix@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I still like https://vikunja.io/ more because they has Gantt chart which is a super rare feature for modern project management sw.