# Your orchestrator went away. Here's where the board goes.

Vibe Kanban shut down, Terragon wound down, and Crystal was deprecated within months of each other. Where the board goes next.

Source: https://codeherder.com/alternatives/

Alternatives

Three tools for running coding agents shut down, wound down, or were deprecated inside a single year. Each migration guide below covers what carries over, and where the work lives next.

What happened

## Three tools, three different endings

Vibe Kanban, Terragon, and Crystal each did something genuinely useful: run a coding agent, or several, without a company standing between you and your own terminal. Within the same year, Bloop shut down and took Vibe Kanban's roadmap with it, Terragon wound down and switched off its service, and Crystal was deprecated in favor of a successor project. Same underlying reason each time: a board that lives on one laptop, or a service billed by one vendor, lasts only as long as that laptop or that vendor does.

None of that makes the tools wrong. It makes "where does my work live" a question worth asking before the next one changes shape, whether you're the developer who ran the board or the person above them who's watched this happen more than once already and wants to know the work will still be there next quarter.

Pick where you're coming from

## Migration guides

Each page names what the old tool got right, maps its concepts onto CodeHerder's, and walks through your first week.

[Bloop shut down · April 10, 2026 Vibe Kanban An open-source, worktree-isolated kanban board for running several coding agents on one machine, until Bloop wound the company down.](https://codeherder.com/alternatives/vibe-kanban/) [Wound down · January 11, 2026 Terragon A cloud-VM background-agent orchestrator for Claude Code and Codex, wound down within a year of most people hearing about it.](https://codeherder.com/alternatives/terragon/) [Deprecated at v0.3.5 · February 26, 2026 Crystal An MIT-licensed Electron app for running parallel Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, deprecated in favor of a successor project.](https://codeherder.com/alternatives/crystal/)

Still choosing between tools that are actively maintained? [/compare](https://codeherder.com/compare) is the cell-by-cell answer to "which one should I pick." This page is for the other question: mine already went away.