Seeder: Your Personal Project Manager

A foundational project manager for small teams — simple to run, and yours to fork. Runs on Cloudflare Workers (D1 + R2) or a single Node VM, built with Next.js, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, and Tailwind.

📖 Full documentation: seederpm.xyz/docs

Philosophy

Project tools tend toward two extremes: the heavyweight complexity of Jira, or lightweight boards small teams outgrow in a month. Seeder takes the opposite stance:

• Foundational, not heavy. The essentials a small team needs to run projects, client requests, and day-to-day execution — productive immediately.
• Yours to fork. It’s open source. Customization is a change to your own copy — add the field, view, or workflow you need without waiting on a roadmap, a plan upgrade, or any lock-in.
• A small core, on purpose. Keep the core minimal and solid; the rest is yours to build on.

Features

• Projects & Kanban — tasks with categories, multi-tag labels, phases, priorities, assignees, due dates, and per-project code numbers.
• Client requests — a separate inbound queue (new → reviewed → converted → closed) that converts into tasks.
• Public client board — an opt-in, token-gated read-only view to share progress with clients without giving them an account.
• Daily planner — an adhoc/project daily task queue with drag-to-reorder.
• Rich text & comments — TipTap-powered descriptions, notes, and comments (Markdown-aware) with images and tables.
• Activity feed — every change is logged with before→after diffs, whether it comes from the UI or an AI assistant.
• Roles, invites & notifications — owner/admin/member roles, invite-only onboarding with a first-owner bootstrap, and in-app notifications.
• White-labeling — customizable system name, logo, favicon, and accent color.
• Built-in MCP server — let AI assistants read and edit your data over the Model Context Protocol (docs).

Quick start

Seeder 2.1: GitHub/GitLab integration, commit details on task cards, guided MCP client setup, and smoother navigation. See the release notes for features and required upgrade steps.

npm install
npm run setup   # interactive wizard: dev / production (node) / production (cloudflare)
npm run dev     # local dev — Miniflare simulates D1 + R2, no Cloudflare account

npm run setup generates the env + config (and, for the node target, the PM2/systemd/Docker + reverse-proxy artifacts). On first run, create the owner account at /sign-in — sign-up is permitted only for the configured OWNER_EMAIL and only while the instance has no users; after that, onboarding is invite-only.

Prefer to wire it up by hand? See the manual setup guide.

Documentation

Everything lives at seederpm.xyz/docs:

• Quickstart — running locally in under a minute
• Choosing a target · Deploy to Cloudflare · Self-host on a Node VM
• Configuration — every environment variable and binding
• MCP server — connect Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT to your workspace
• Operations — backup/restore, upgrading, troubleshooting
• Architecture — how it’s built, end to end

All documentation lives on the docs site — this README stays intentionally short.

MCP server

Seeder ships a built-in Model Context Protocol server at /api/mcp, so AI assistants can read and edit your projects, tasks, requests, comments, and settings — it deploys with the app, so every instance gets it for free. Mint a token at Settings → API tokens (read, or read & write), then point your client at https:///api/mcp with the token as a Bearer header. A token can never do more than the user who created it, and every change shows in the Activity feed. Full tool list and setup: seederpm.xyz/docs/mcp.

Forks in the wild

Seeder is yours to fork — and people do. Community variants built on top of it:

• goutou by @jhfnetboy — a Seeder variant that adds multi-repo Claude Code coordination skills (狗头军师): a “commander” dispatches work to a central board and per-repo “soldiers” pick it up over the MCP bus.

Built your own variant? Open an issue or a PR adding it here.

Support

Hit a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on GitHub, or email [email protected].

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for local setup, the pre-PR checks (lint, type-check, tests, build), and conventions — CI runs the same gates on every pull request.

Security

Please report vulnerabilities privately via the process in SECURITY.md. Don’t open public issues for security problems.

Acknowledgements

A massive thank you to Thaqif Rosdi (@takippu) — Seeder grew out of his original idea, first built as northstar-pm, and it wouldn’t exist without it. 🙏

Contributors

Manuele J. Sarfatti (@mjsarfatti) — contributed the responsive Kanban layout fix and the navigation progress experience.

License

MIT © 2026 Daniel Syauqi (@danielsyauqi) and Thaqif Rosdi (@takippu)

The code is free to use, fork, and modify under MIT — just keep the copyright notice and license intact (see NOTICE). The Seeder name and logo are trademarks and are not covered by the MIT License: you can fork the code, but not the brand. See TRADEMARK.md.

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Made by @danielsyauqi and @takippu.