Hi HN! I'm one of the founders of Kitemaker. My co-founders and I have been leading and working in software development teams together for many years. While th

Hi HN! I'm one of the founders of Kitemaker. My co-founders and I have been leading and working in software development teams together for many years. While the teams have changed over the years, a few things have remained constant: - We've always been able to get the most out of a team when the members of the team collaborated closely across engineering, design, product, analysts, etc. - We've always found that tools like Jira felt like they were built more for the managers on the team rather than the team itself. Things like updating issues only when harassed by a manager or during a planning meeting were not uncommon occurrences. - The tools we used were usually either clunky and slow, or overly simplified and not particularly suited to software product development So we decided to make Kitemaker - a tool that's focused on a) helping the team collaborate better rather than helping managers manage the team and b) being delightful and snappy to use. We have a number of early adopters switching to Kitemaker from Trello, Jira and GitHub issues and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. People love the efficiency of having tons of hotkeys and keyboard navigation (we took a lot of inspiration from Superhuman), as well as our rich issue screen and integrations. We'd love for you to try it out and let us know what you think. We're available here to answer any questions you might have and also have a Slack community linked from our landing page.