GitHub Projects
Kanban-style project planning boards and tables built into GitHub, linked to issues and pull requests.
HN commenters like it as a simple, low-overhead kanban board for tracking issues,123 sometimes driven from the gh CLI or used as the task tracker and memory for AI coding agents.4567 The main caveat is scale: it is recommended for teams of about four or fewer,89 with one commenter moving larger teams to Jira.10
Why people recommend it
AI agent tracking · 3
Commenters use it as the ticketing system that AI agents read, update and sync tasks into.
“My current process is also using Github projects in a normal scrum style way”
“For work I use private GitHub project board”
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“I also made it so I can sync my tasks directly to my GitHub projects as well”
Simple kanban · 3
Its kanban board, including WIP limits, is described as working fine for real software teams.
“we use GitHub's kanban interface with WIP limits. That also works fine”
“I'm using GitHub issues and GitHub Projects with `gh` cli and I find it works well”
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“My current process is also using Github projects in a normal scrum style way”
Low overhead · 2
Picked for small projects where dedicated PM tools feel like too much overhead.
“For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board”
“For tiny teams, Github Projects.”
Caveats and dissent
Small teams only · 2
Recommended for teams under about five people, with larger teams moving to tools like Jira.
“For tiny teams, Github Projects.”
“For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board”
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- AI promised less work. I've never worked more 1 mention
- Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration 1 mention
- Automating Myself Out of Development 1 mention
- I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards 1 mention
- Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use? 1 mention
- Claude Code Agent Teams 1 mention
Data: github-projects.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“For work I use private GitHub project board”
“I'm using GitHub issues and GitHub Projects with `gh` cli and I find it works well”
“My current process is also using Github projects in a normal scrum style way”
“we use GitHub's kanban interface with WIP limits. That also works fine”
“For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board”
“I also made it so I can sync my tasks directly to my GitHub projects as well”
“For tiny teams, Github Projects.”