Vibe-Kanban Shuts Down Live Onstage at AIE Europe with 30K MAU

Vibe-kanban announced its shutdown live onstage at AI Engineer Europe despite 30,000 monthly active users, with its CEO citing failure to sell to enterprise and failure to resell tokens as the two deciding factors — the project is now open-sourced.

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Vibe-Kanban Shuts Down Live Onstage at AIE Europe with 30K MAU

Vibe-kanban's CEO announced the product's shutdown live onstage at the AI Engineer (AIE) Europe conference despite the tool having 30,000 monthly active users. The stated reason: "Everyone who is making money is doing 2 things: selling to enterprise, and reselling tokens. We were doing neither." The project ran from 2021 to 2025 before being open-sourced at the moment of shutdown — an unusually transparent close of a product with meaningful user adoption.

Why It Matters

Vibe-kanban's failure formula — consumer traction without enterprise revenue and without token-resale margin — is the defining AI startup failure mode of 2025-2026, validating that user numbers without B2B contract flow are not a business.

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