{"slug": "show-hn-devboard-a-simpler-clickup-for-small-dev-teams-native-apps-and-mcp", "title": "Show HN: DevBoard – a simpler ClickUp for small dev teams, native apps and MCP", "summary": "App Tube released devBoard, a native project-tracking app for freelancers and small dev teams, now available on the App Store and Google Play including macOS, with Windows and Linux still in packaging. devBoard ships as an MCP server at api.getdevboard.app/mcp, letting Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop search, create and edit items, comment, move cards and log time as the user. Pricing is not set yet, and App Tube says there will be no web version.", "body_md": "### Boards that stay readable\n\nA card shows four things: its key, its title, who is on it, and one contextual chip. Labels are a 2px colour bar, not a row of pills. Drag between columns is optimistic and survives a restart.\n\ndevBoard is project tracking for freelancers and small dev teams — boards, epics, releases and time tracking in a native app that opens instantly and answers to your keyboard. No browser tab. No forty-field configuration screen you fill in once and never look at again.\n\nYou are four people. You do not need portfolios, workload heatmaps, custom automations or six view types you switched on once. What you need is to know what you are doing today, what is blocking the release, and where the last three hours went — without the tool becoming a second job.\n\nThree levels of work item — epic, task, subtask — plus releases and project-scoped labels, each with a screen of its own. The epic a card belongs to is visible on the board, not buried in a detail panel.\n\nStart and stop a timer on the item you are already looking at. Comments and an auto-logged activity feed sit beside it, so the record of what happened writes itself.\n\nEverything assigned to you as Overdue, Today, This week, Later and No date — plus a private scratch to-do list with reminders, for the errands that never deserved a ticket.\n\nBuild a filter once, save it, share it with the team. The same view drives the board and the list, so nobody has to rebuild a query to see what you were talking about.\n\nTwo people on the same board see each other's moves without refreshing — including work moving between columns and buckets, not just text changing in place. Drop the network and it catches up.\n\nThe desktop app is built around a command palette and a set of bare-key shortcuts, with a reference sheet one keystroke away. Window size and position survive a restart. On macOS there is a real menu bar.\n\ndevBoard is an MCP server. Connect it once and your assistant can read the ticket it is working on, open new ones, comment, move the card and track the time. It acts as you, in one workspace, with your role.\n\n`api.getdevboard.app/mcp` to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop\ndevBoard is a native Flutter app on every platform it ships to. The desktop build is tuned for a pointer and a keyboard; the phone build is not the desktop layout with the sidebar taken off — rows, sheets and tap targets are its own.\n\nAvailable now on the App Store and Google Play, including macOS. Windows and Linux are next. There is no web version and there is not going to be one — the app is built to open in a fraction of a second and work with the network off.\n\nYes — on [the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/rs/app/devboard/id6807361505) and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apptube.devboard). macOS is also available on [the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/at/app/devboard/id6807361505); Windows and Linux are still packaging.\n\nNo, deliberately. devBoard is a native app on all five platforms. A tracker you check twenty times a day should open instantly and keep working when the connection drops, and a browser tab is the wrong shape for that.\n\nIt is smaller on purpose. There are no portfolios, no automation builder, no custom field designer. You get boards, three levels of work item, releases, labels, saved views, comments, attachments and time tracking — and then it stops.\n\nBoth. Workspaces, teams, members and invites were in from the first version, not bolted on later. Freelancers running several clients get a workspace each; a small team shares one.\n\nYes. devBoard is an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop can search and read your items, create and edit them, comment, move cards and log time, acting as you. [Here is the setup](https://getdevboard.app/mcp); it takes about a minute.\n\nPricing is not set yet. It will be posted here before paid plans begin, and it will be a plain number rather than a grid of seat tiers.\n\nApp Tube — a small studio. devBoard is a sibling to [dev.log](https://getdevlog.app), which solves the other half of the same problem: remembering what you actually did.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-devboard-a-simpler-clickup-for-small-dev-teams-native-apps-and-mcp", "canonical_source": "https://getdevboard.app/", "published_at": "2026-10-05 14:45:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-05 14:49:54.325220+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["devBoard", "App Tube", "Claude Code", "Cursor", "VS Code", "Claude Desktop", "App Store", "Google Play"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-devboard-a-simpler-clickup-for-small-dev-teams-native-apps-and-mcp", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-devboard-a-simpler-clickup-for-small-dev-teams-native-apps-and-mcp.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-devboard-a-simpler-clickup-for-small-dev-teams-native-apps-and-mcp.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-devboard-a-simpler-clickup-for-small-dev-teams-native-apps-and-mcp.jsonld"}}