Claire is what Trello used to be — reduced, opinionated, and built to move work forward.
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I spent over a year building a lightweight Kanban tool called Claire, solo. Here’s how it came about:
At some point I just stopped liking Trello. I barely used Power Ups, and half the things I actually needed were behind a paywall. Development felt stuck, and it started to grate on me. AI features were basically an afterthought. ClickUp and Asana were the opposite problem: so complex, so stuffed with stuff I’ll never touch.
I wanted a simple Kanban board and a way to work with people. Something that isn’t ugly, that I’d actually enjoy opening every day. I never found anything as simple as Trello. I wanted a calm space to think, organize, and talk, and everything out there felt built to please big enterprises. So I decided to build Claire myself.
The goal was, and still is: keep it simple, start to finish. No feature bloat, no second ClickUp. My 10 year old son shaped a lot of the UX decisions :) if he got it, it was good. That was the bar.
By now I’ve also built in agents. You can talk to Cursor or Claude straight from a task to spec out a new feature (there’s a response mode for developers and one for non developers), pull assets from Figma or search a Figma file and drop the design into the task as an image. The design agent can generate images and, occasionally, a genuinely good mockup. The idea was to keep everything in one board: all the info, all the actions, one place.
Meeting notes mattered to me too. Take notes, turn them into tasks, write docs together, polish them with AI, and keep the team in the loop. Having AI do a quick pass on a comment before I send it, that’s the thing I missed most in Trello and everywhere else.
I built all of this alone. I’d really love to hear what you think 🙂, what works for you, and what doesn’t.
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Hi!
I spent over a year building a lightweight Kanban tool called Claire, solo. Here’s how it came about:
At some point I just stopped liking Trello. I barely used Power Ups, and half the things I actually needed were behind a paywall. Development felt stuck, and it started to grate on me. AI features were basically an afterthought. ClickUp and Asana were the opposite problem: so complex, so stuffed with stuff I’ll never touch.
I wanted a simple Kanban board and a way to work with people. Something that isn’t ugly, that I’d actually enjoy opening every day. I never found anything as simple as Trello. I wanted a calm space to think, organize, and talk, and everything out there felt built to please big enterprises. So I decided to build Claire myself.
The goal was, and still is: keep it simple, start to finish. No feature bloat, no second ClickUp. My 10 year old son shaped a lot of the UX decisions :) if he got it, it was good. That was the bar.
By now I’ve also built in agents. You can talk to Cursor or Claude straight from a task to spec out a new feature (there’s a response mode for developers and one for non developers), pull assets from Figma or search a Figma file and drop the design into the task as an image. The design agent can generate images and, occasionally, a genuinely good mockup. The idea was to keep everything in one board: all the info, all the actions, one place.
Meeting notes mattered to me too. Take notes, turn them into tasks, write docs together, polish them with AI, and keep the team in the loop. Having AI do a quick pass on a comment before I send it, that’s the thing I missed most in Trello and everywhere else.
I built all of this alone. I’d really love to hear what you think 🙂, what works for you, and what doesn’t.