Kan

Kan is an open-source kanban application that provides a minimalist, Trello-style board for organizing work and tracking progress ^S1. It is designed for individuals and teams who need a simple, visual task management tool and prefer an alternative to Trello ^S1. The product offers cloud and self-hosted deployment, with features like board permissions, activity history, and Trello import ^S1.

• Identity: Kan is an open-source kanban application, positioned as an alternative to Trello ^S1.
• Core purpose: It helps users organize work, track progress, and deliver results through a visual board ^S1.
• Intended users: Individuals, solo creators, and growing teams needing collaboration ^S36.
• Product scope: A single kanban app with boards, lists, and cards, not a broader platform ^S1.
• Positioning: The vendor markets it as a simple, flexible, and powerful tool for task management ^S1.
• Claimed distinction: It is described as a super-minimalist, frills-free Trello-style board ^S1.

kan. bn. kan.bn: an estimated 50,600 total monthly visits and about 818 monthly organic visits across 73 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 8 pages and measured a technical health score of 88/100.

• Total traffic (modeled): 50,600 monthly visits across all channels.
• Organic search traffic (estimated): 818 monthly visits from search.
• Strongest sampled ranking: piltover archive at position 6.
• Leading page in the collected evidence: https://kan.bn/fqjckoj1ba6d/piltoverarchive/havgzt2u1x7t.
• Closest measured organic competitor: reddit.com, appearing 2 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
• Technical crawl: 8 pages, health score 88/100.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Company identity and positioning

Total website traffic

Domain identity

Website capture

Top organic keywords

Independent Google result page

Query: piltover archive

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Prioritized website intelligence pages

Features

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Pricing and plans

Integrations and supported platforms

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Product and company updates

This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-24T10:01:12.022Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.

Sampled competitors

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

Backlink comparison profile

• Domain rating: 47/100
• Backlinks: 2,326
• Referring domains: 717
• Dofollow backlinks: 70.0%
• Dofollow referring domains: 41.0%

Collection decision

The Scout search index remains intentionally excluded from automatic Scout analysis. This Scout traffic model profile costs 5 credits (0.5 cents) and is included in the first comparison run so its usefulness can be judged before the recurring collection is finalized.

AI-assistant referral traffic

• Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.3%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

• features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Independent reviews

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

• Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello / Hacker News — I couldn’t find an open-source alternative to Trello that I liked so I built my own. It’s fast, free and fully-customisable. You can self host it, or use the cloud version if you don’t want to manage your own infra. Repo -> https://github.com/kanbn/kan
• kanbn/kan — # kanbn/kan The open source Trello alternative. - Stars: 5818 - Forks: 517 - Watchers: 5818 - Open issues: 159 - License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 - Homepage: https://kan.bn - Default branch: main - Created: 2023-10-27T20:50:01Z
• Kan.bn: The open source alternative to Trello for teams and makers / Product Hunt — A few months ago I soft-launched Kan on Hacker News and Reddit and was blown away by the response. Thousands of people, like me, were fed up with Trello and looking for a modern open-source alternative. When it launched in 2011, Trello’s carefully designed simplicity felt almost magical. But over time (and acquisitions) it lost its way and grew into something closer to “Jira Lite”. Kan is our attempt to recapture that original magic, in open source. Since the soft launch we’ve been hard at work
• Releases · kanbn/kan · GitHub — v0.6.0 Pre-release hjball released this 29 Jun 12:47 v0.6.0 `a994c06` Sorry for the recent break in scheduled releases. We're back on track now. ... header to support non-ASCII characters by @hjball in #519

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

Not found on the collected pages: security and compliance, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Not measurable: rdap: no RDAP server published for .bn; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

• Pages crawled: 8 of 15 maximum
• Technical health: 88/100
• Critical issues: 0
• Warnings: 17
• Notices: 4

Issues

Crawled pages

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

Modeled acquisition channels

First-party connections

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors other than Trello, which Kan positions against ^S1. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for monthly billing, no customer case studies, and no independent review ratings. Open questions remain about the scope of the REST API and webhook capabilities, as they are described as limited or basic ^{S36 S38}.

This report is based on 6 of 7 collected pages from kan.bn, including the homepage, pricing, roadmap, terms, privacy policy, and an OSS friends page. Static and browser rendering rendering were used; external proof search was completed but no additional verification was performed. Limitations include missing pages and the fact that some roadmap items are not yet implemented.

• Official Websitehttps://kan.bn/Verified
• Pricing Pagehttps://kan.bn/pricingVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kan.bn/kan/roadmapVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kan.bn/privacyVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kan.bn/termsVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kan.bn/oss-friendsVerified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177Verified
• Articlehttps://github.com/kanbn/kanVerified
• Review Sitehttps://appsumo.com/products/kan/reviews/waited-for-60-days-but-it-didnt-quite-385780/Verified
• Articlehttps://www.producthunt.com/products/kan-bnVerified
• Review Sitehttps://www.abdulazizahwan.com/2025/09/kan-bn-review-the-ultimate-open-source-trello-alternative-you-need-to-try.htmlVerified
• Documentationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157178Verified
• Articlehttps://github.com/kanbn/kan/releasesVerified
• Review Sitehttps://selfhostindex.com/app/kan/Verified