Kanban without the 47 config screens, plus meeting transcripts that never leave your Mac

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Kaneo is project management without the Jira overhead: boards, lists, calendar and Gantt views, a backlog, subtasks, dependencies, time tracking and custom fields. It's MIT licensed, and self-hosting is free with unlimited users and every feature, SSO included, which is rarer than it should be. It runs as one app container plus Postgres, via Docker Compose, Helm, Coolify or Railway. Plan on 2 GB of RAM and 10 GB of disk, S3-compatible storage for attachments, and Redis only if you run several API instances. It talks to GitHub and Gitea, has a REST API, CLI and MCP server, and imports from Trello, Jira, Linear, Plane and PLANKA. Kaneo Cloud now exists: $4/month for one person or $5/user/month for teams ($40 and $50 a year billed annually), with a 14-day trial and no card. Solo: free self-hosted, or $4 to skip the server. Small teams: free, or $5 a seat. Larger teams: check reporting first. The catch: the scope is deliberately narrow. Kaneo's own site says budgeting, baseline comparisons and sprint burndown reports are out of scope, so teams that live on velocity charts will miss Jira. It also ships fast, five releases in one day this week, so pin versions.

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Quill records a call and transcribes it without anything leaving your Mac. It's a tiny menu-bar app: one click records your mic and the call audio as separate tracks, and on stop a local speech model writes a timestamped transcript. Not the Quill.js editor; same name, different project. MIT licensed and free. There's no app to download. You clone the repo, build it with Apple's Swift toolchain, then run sudo ./scripts/install-macos. It needs macOS 15 or later, and the first transcription pulls about 600 MB of model files. Transcription is English-only and fast on Apple Silicon. Speaker labels are just "me" and "them", because your mic is one track and everything the Mac plays is the other, notification dings included. No summaries; an on_stop hook hands the folder to your own script. Solo: free, and cheaper than Otter for raw transcripts. Teams get no sharing or sync. The catch: it records everyone on the call with no bot and no notice to them, and in all-party-consent states like California getting permission is on you. It's also a young, mostly one-developer project with no tagged releases, and nothing has merged since September 27 while outside fixes sit in open pull requests.

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AgentENV runs thousands of isolated agent environments at once, which is exactly what reinforcement-learning training for agents needs. Written in Rust, it orchestrates Firecracker microVMs across a cluster with sub-50-millisecond snapshot pause and resume, memory forking, and S3-compatible storage. It comes from kvcache-ai, the group behind the well-regarded KTransformers, so the pedigree is real. The standout is the speed of the snapshotting. Forking agent state and pausing or resuming microVMs in under 50ms is what makes large-scale agentic RL practical instead of theoretical. This is free under MIT, but the audience is narrow: teams actually training agents at scale. Solo tinkering is possible, self-hosting on real infrastructure is the expectation. The catch is two-fold. It's infra-heavy, it wants Linux 6.8+ and access to /dev/kvm, so this is a datacenter or beefy-server tool, not a laptop one. And the README is blunt that the API has no authorization built in and must never be exposed publicly. Powerful and specialized, with sharp edges you have to respect.

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Remotion lets you make videos by writing React components. Each frame is a render, and Remotion turns the sequence into an MP4. That makes data-driven and personalized video practical: connect a spreadsheet or an API and render thousands of variations instead of editing each one by hand. One command, npx create-video@latest, gets a project running. Rendering happens where you choose: Node.js on your own servers, in the browser, or serverless on AWS Lambda, where the compute lands on your cloud bill. The documentation runs past a thousand pages, with templates, captions, transitions and agent skills. Company size decides who pays, not features. Individuals, nonprofits and companies of up to three people use it free, even commercially. Bigger companies need a license: $25/mo per seat for making videos yourself, or $0.01 per render with a $100/mo minimum for apps that generate video automatically. The paid version has the same features as the free one. The catch is the label. Remotion is source-available, not open source, and says so itself. You can read the code but not resell a derivative, a fourth person on the team flips you from free to paid, and codec patent licensing for formats like H.264 stays your responsibility. Just trimming clips or burning in captions? FFmpeg is simpler.