SMRTR ProgrammingNov 25, 2025Hacker News

What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project

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The creator of Kaneo, an open-source kanban board, shares lessons learned from maintaining a self-hosted project. From handling diverse deployment environments to managing migrations for 200+ users, the experience revealed the complexity of post-launch support. Documentation, feature scope decisions, and user support became ongoing challenges that taught valuable product development lessons.

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