Switching from Vibe Kanban or MAMP? Everything comes with you.
One free, open-source app replaces your local dev stack and your agent task board. PortBay imports your sites from Laravel Herd, ServBay, MAMP and Laravel Valet on first launch — and dispatches the same 11agent CLIs you've been running from Vibe Kanban or Conductor. Nothing to export, nothing to re-buy.
Your sites, your agents, your workflow
Your sites
Projects stay plain folders on disk. PortBay detects PHP, Node and static sites, serves them at https://yourproject.test with a browser-trusted certificate, and gives each one its own database across 7 engines (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Memcached and SQLite), with credentials injected into the project's environment.
Your agents
PortBay dispatches the agent CLIs you already installed and authenticated — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Aider, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Amp, Qwen Code, Antigravity and Ollama, plus any other CLI via a Custom command template. Same subscriptions, same CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files, same MCP setup. The agent just gains a running app to work against.
Your workflow
A Kanban board you share with the agents: write a card, move it to Todo, and PortBay dispatches the assigned agent. Comments, @mentions and an audit trail replace scattered terminal sessions.
Three steps, one afternoon
There is no proprietary format to import into or escape from. Your projects are plain folders, your agents are the CLIs already on your machine, and PortBay reads the import sources your old tool left behind.
- Install PortBay. PortBay ships a signed, notarized macOS build for Apple Silicon and Intel (macOS 11+) and a Linux x86_64 build (AppImage, deb and rpm). There is no Windows build yet. On a Mac it also installs with a single Homebrew command.
- Open it once. PortBay's importer reads Laravel Herd, ServBay, MAMP and Laravel Valet and offers to bring those sites across — or just add any project folder.
- Press Play, then assign your first card. The site runs at https://yourproject.test and the agent works against it.
Migrate from Vibe Kanban in four steps
Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced in April 2026 that it is shutting down; the project continues community-maintained. Vibe Kanban's final release added a data export, but you won't need it here — your projects are plain folders and your agents are CLIs already on your machine. PortBay doesn't import the board; it gives the same agents a running app to work against.
- Install PortBay and add the project folders you've been pointing Vibe Kanban's agents at. They stay plain folders on disk — nothing to export first.
- Press Play. PortBay provisions the managed runtime, the per-project database (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Memcached and SQLite) and trusted HTTPS that Vibe Kanban left for you to supply.
- Recreate your open tasks as cards, assign Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Antigravity — or any of the 11 CLIs PortBay dispatches — and move each one to Todo. PortBay runs the agent against the running app, in its own git worktree when parallel dispatch is on.
- Keep Vibe Kanban installed if you're on Windows, or if you prefer running it as a zero-install Node CLI. Switching isn't destructive, and our comparison covers where it still wins.
Start from the tool you use today
Every path below links to a full, source-cited comparison — including the cases where the other tool is the better pick.
From an AI agent board or orchestrator
From a local dev environment
Switching, in plain terms
Don’t see your question answered here? The docs go deeper — every feature, flag and failure mode.
Read the docsNo. Switching isn't destructive: PortBay reads your existing project folders and import sources without modifying your current tool's setup. Move one project across, verify it runs, then retire the old tool when you're ready.
Bloop, the company that built Vibe Kanban, announced in April 2026 that it is shutting down. The project is open source (Apache-2.0) and continues community-maintained, so nothing stops working overnight — but future development now depends on volunteers rather than a funded team. If you'd rather run your agent board inside an actively maintained app, the four migration steps above take an afternoon.
Not automatically — PortBay imports sites, not database contents. Moving a database is a standard dump and import into the per-project database PortBay provisions (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Memcached and SQLite), with credentials injected into the project's environment on every start. Your old databases stay untouched on disk until you delete them yourself.
Yes. PortBay dispatches the same CLIs you run today — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Aider, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Amp, Qwen Code, Antigravity and Ollama, plus any other via a Custom command template — inside your project folder, so they read the same CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, skills and MCP configuration they always have. Nothing to rewrite.
No. PortBay doesn't resell model access — it dispatches the agent CLIs you already installed and authenticated, on whatever plan or API key you use today.
Free for up to 6 local projects, including the agent task board, and the code is open source under AGPL-3.0. Pro is $10/month and removes the project limit, adds custom Cloudflare tunnels and account sync.
Linux is covered: PortBay ships an x86_64 AppImage alongside deb and rpm packages. Windows is not — if that is your machine, a cross-platform board like Vibe Kanban, Kanbots or Cline is the honest recommendation, and our comparison pages cover them.
PortBay runs PHP, Node, static sites and databases natively — no Dockerfiles, images or YAML. If one stack genuinely needs containers, keep Docker for that project alone and run everything else in PortBay.
Give your projects and your agents a real local home.
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