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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

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December 1, 2019 at 3:09pm

I make new Wekan releases about once a day

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    I have public Roadmap at https://wekan.github.io with all of my paid work listed, so there is full transparency

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      I have full ChangeLog at https://wekan.github.io that is my proven track record

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        I develop Wekan, because I use Wekan myself, I'm scratching my own itch

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          At beginning I did maintain Wekan as a hobby. After one year of maintaining Wekan, at GitHub issues some did ask that Wekan could have bounties, so I added bounties and my Commercial Support https://wekan.team

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            Wekan is Community driven Open Source project

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              I continue to develop Wekan, because Wekan Community encourages me to continue, and my customers pay for development of Wekan. I could get more money if I were working for some big company. But my customers make it possible that I can work at my home, developing new features for Wekan.

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                I do carefully listen for feeback at GitHub issues, chats, etc. I use GitHub Watch feature to get emails about all new issues, comments at issues, pull requests etc.

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                  Wekan has some contributors, that send pull request, but Wekan would progress much faster if there were even more contributors sending pull requests.

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                    Wekan has 572 open issues, it's not like I can develop them all at once, I'm just one person.

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                      Developing even one new feature takes some time

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                        usually something between couple days to 6 months

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                          then why are you not promoting wekan as a competitor to trello?

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                            December 1, 2019 at 6:50pm

                            Because Wekan is already better than Trello

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                              I don't compete

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                                Trello and Jira are not Open Source

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                                  For software I use, I prefer Open Source, because I can see source code, and I can fix bugs myself.

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                                    Trello is translated to 23 languages. Wekan is translated to about 50 languages. Wekan is used in most countries of the world https://snapcraft.io/wekan

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                                      I don't go looking what features there are in other kanban etc software. If someone would like to have some feature in Wekan, they pay me to develop it.

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                                        For my day-to-day usage of Wekan, Wekan already is the best kanban software available.

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                                          I have already implemented to features that are in Jira, like Assignee field. Currently Board Id feature is in progress, that also from Jira.

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                                            And related to GitLab integration, I will implement card/list/board sync, that can sync info between Wekan and GitLab. That is feature that only GitLab Enterprise Edition has.

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                                              In features, I'm not targeting any specific competitor only.

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                                                And Trello/Jira/GitLab still have a lot of customers, it's not likely that I could make them go out of businesss

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                                                  In Wekan user interface, I try to make it logical, and it's own unique design.

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