Focalboard: a free alternative to Trello

mFat@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.ml – 194 points –
focalboard.com

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

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There is also kinda similar open source software plane

Don't forget the highly customizable and themeable Kanboard, made by the same people behind Miniflux. I will check out plane, though. Looks neat!

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

Sounds cool, however don't forget this is under MatterMost Licensing:

A source available license gives access to source code, but places restrictions on its use. The Mattermost Source Available License allows free-of-charge and unrestricted use of the source code in development and testing environments, but requires a valid Mattermost Enterprise Edition License in a production environment.

https://docs.mattermost.com/about/faq-license.html

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

Awesome I can't wait to try it!