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Shipping is important. It's a nice feeling to get it out there. But to imagine that if you'd just shipped it then everyone would be using your app instead of so

by kevsim 6y ago

Shipping is important. It's a nice feeling to get it out there. But to imagine that if you'd just shipped it then everyone would be using your app instead of someone else's is nonsense. You're in full control of shipping. Getting distribution for your software - getting it to really take off - is super super hard. Being an engineer, I think we tend to gloss over this part. I'm working on a product in a very crowded space (issue tracking [0]). Shipping is the easy part. The day to day grind to find distribution and drive more and more users to your product, that's the tough bit. 0: https://kitemaker.co https://kitemaker.co

noodlesUK 6y ago
You have a lovely landing page, and a very slick looking product. Keep it up!
- kevsim 6y ago
  Thanks! We appreciate the kind words :-)
drcongo 6y ago
Is there a pricing page on your site? (also, does it sync issues to GitHub issues? I'm trying to find something that does for very non-technical clients where we don't want to give them full access to GitHub)
- kevsim 6y ago
  At one point we did have syncing to GitHub issues (e.g. an issue created in Kitemaker was automatically created in GitHub and vice versa, labels and comments were kept in sync, etc.). However, we ended up dropping this feature because it wasn't very popular with our users and it was a tough one to get working perfectly. I'd be curious to know if there's interest in such a feature though. We could always resurrect some dead code ;-)
  - drcongo 6y ago
    We would _definitely_ be interested in that. We have a few very non-technical clients who would just be a bit overwhelmed by GitHub. Add into this that GitHub's permission levels don't allow you to have an issues only user (their official recommended way to do this is to have an entirely separate repo, just for your issues!), AND that we would like to set 2FA as mandatory for organisation users, but then we're back to the non technical users for whom the whole concept of 2FA is alien. Thanks for the pricing info too. Sounds promising.
- kevsim 6y ago
  Regarding pricing, we'll be rolling that out soon (I believe next week). Will be a free tier for up to 6 users or so and then after that something around $10/user/month.

by kevsim 6y ago

noodlesUK 6y ago

You have a lovely landing page, and a very slick looking product. Keep it up!

kevsim 6y ago
Thanks! We appreciate the kind words :-)

drcongo 6y ago

Is there a pricing page on your site? (also, does it sync issues to GitHub issues? I'm trying to find something that does for very non-technical clients where we don't want to give them full access to GitHub)

kevsim 6y ago
At one point we did have syncing to GitHub issues (e.g. an issue created in Kitemaker was automatically created in GitHub and vice versa, labels and comments were kept in sync, etc.). However, we ended up dropping this feature because it wasn't very popular with our users and it was a tough one to get working perfectly. I'd be curious to know if there's interest in such a feature though. We could always resurrect some dead code ;-)
- drcongo 6y ago
  We would _definitely_ be interested in that. We have a few very non-technical clients who would just be a bit overwhelmed by GitHub. Add into this that GitHub's permission levels don't allow you to have an issues only user (their official recommended way to do this is to have an entirely separate repo, just for your issues!), AND that we would like to set 2FA as mandatory for organisation users, but then we're back to the non technical users for whom the whole concept of 2FA is alien. Thanks for the pricing info too. Sounds promising.
kevsim 6y ago
Regarding pricing, we'll be rolling that out soon (I believe next week). Will be a free tier for up to 6 users or so and then after that something around $10/user/month.