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by kevsim 4y ago
Not gonna lie, we wrestled with the title a bit and had some alternatives lined up. We'll take the HN feedback to heart, for sure.
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by kevsim 4y ago
Fair enough. The title was meant to be a bit provocative for sure. The point we're trying to make is that a tool can help nudge you in a certain direction, and we're trying to make Kitemaker the tool that nudges you towards workin
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by kevsim 4y ago
Appreciate the feedback! Nailing landing page copy is tough. So you'd like to see something along the lines of "in Jira you'd do it like XYZ, in Kitemaker it'd look like ABC"?
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by kevsim 4y ago
Co-founder here. Bananas in good way, I hope? :p
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by kevsim 4y ago
Co-founder at Kitemaker here. You're exactly right. However, when people start micro-splitting deliverables down into tasks, those metrics and outcomes tend to get lost in the shuffle. The way we're structuring things in Kitemaker
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Issue trackers considered harmful for tracking product development(kitemaker.co)
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by kevsim 4y ago
Definitely feel your pain. We did a full OT implementation for our startup [0] and it was a beast. We based it on Slate.js which has a nice concept of operations that maps nicely to OT, but it was still a lot of work to get it working well
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by kevsim 4y ago
I've also moved over to a self-hosted solution, but when using Medium previously, I just embedded GitHub gists for code blocks. Looks nice, has good syntax highlights, can get the raw gist, etc. Not ideal, but not terrible.
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by kevsim 4y ago
Faker looks cool! We've been using Casual [0] for ages but Faker looks more featureful and more actively maintained. 0: https://github.com/boo1ean/casual
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by kevsim 4y ago
Funny thing is after looking at it for a bit, I'd _swear_ HN is changing colors now.
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by kevsim 4y ago
According to the help page: > Akedo uses a beginner friendly language that is similar to many professional languages but is aimed at producing readable and understandable code.
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by kevsim 4y ago
I think if they lifted the diagram from the docs [0] to the front page it would make things a lot more clear. 0: https://deepkit.io/framework
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by kevsim 4y ago
That's the point. Since it can't actually parse the file, this is as good as it gets. It at least gets something on the screen that says "Python >= 3.6 is required" which is better than nothing.
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by kevsim 4y ago
Spent some time at Nokia when I was fresh out of university. The thrill of getting "hello world" on the screen in Symbian/S60 is not something I'll ever forget. Took ages of battling CodeWarrior and I think even a simple
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by kevsim 4y ago
Exactly. In fact, it's even a bit of validation that maybe the market you're trying to address actually exists.
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by kevsim 4y ago
CloudFlare just announced their own relational DB for workers today: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-d1 On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31339299
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by kevsim 4y ago
Supabase recently announced something in the "realtime" space https://supabase.com/blog/2022/04/01/supabase-realtime-with-... Like to keep up-to-date on this stuff because we ended up building
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by kevsim 4y ago
Looks cool! How does this compare to something like Firebase/Supabase?
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by kevsim 4y ago
I'd say if your competitors are relying on looking at your roadmap to compete with you, then they're in trouble. Single features are often easy to copy but it's a losing battle if your competitor is way out in front of you an
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by kevsim 5y ago
Additionally more junior teammates probably had a harder time getting mentoring time from more senior teammates, for example.
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by kevsim 5y ago
Ngrok is one of those things that I know isn't that complex but I gladly pay for it year after year because I just don't want to deal with that stuff and it rarely lets me down.
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by kevsim 5y ago
Or they've made an SPA and are trying to make use of the history API and just have a bug. Don't assume bad intentions.
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by kevsim 5y ago
Wow if you can “cheat” during an interview - meaning either that they’re asking trivial, google-able stuff or that they’re so bad at interviewing that they can’t tell if you actually know your stuff - then their hiring process is pretty bad
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by kevsim 5y ago
This is cool! It's kind of similar to what the RICE/ICE frameworks are trying to help achieve [0]. We built some scoring of impact/effort into our tool Kitemaker [1] and allow teams to prioritize their work by these things. W
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by kevsim 5y ago
Kitemaker (YC W21) | Founding marketing and community manager | Remote Kitemaker is building the tool for the best product development teams in the industry. It replaces project management tools and issue trackers with a fast and collaborat
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by kevsim 5y ago
Kitemaker (YC W21) | Fullstack engineer | Remote | Full-time Kitemaker is reinventing the product development tool to help every team work like the world's best product teams. We're looking for founding members who can not only he
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by kevsim 5y ago
Kitemaker (YC W21) | Fullstack engineer | Remote | Full-time Kitemaker is reinventing the product development tool to help every team work like the world's best product teams. We're looking for founding members who can not only he
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by kevsim 5y ago
Qt5 was release in 2012. Qt6 was released in 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history
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by kevsim 5y ago
> Qt from 5 - where I ported one of my apps - and bang we're already at Qt6 now ffs! It was 8 years between the release of Qt5 and Qt6. Qt's one the things I consider quite stable compared to many other frameworks these days.
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by kevsim 5y ago
We've certainly had our battles. When we first made Kitemaker[0], we were using the "old" pre 0.5 version of Slate and we built a lot of functionality on that. When they did the total rewrite, we put off upgrading for a long

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