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by kevsim 6y ago
We're actually in between drag and drop libs at the moment. We currently use react-beautiful-dnd [0], but it has some major shortcomings and doesn't feel very well maintained. That being said, it's a pretty impressive lib tha
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by kevsim 6y ago
Ouch! Sorry about that. Still seeing it?
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Thanks! We're very aware of them, tried to capture it a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26542607
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by kevsim 6y ago
We’ll checkout out our webflow setup to see if there’s anything we can do there to prevent the burger menu from getting messed up. Thanks for the tip. We don’t offer on prem currently but there’s a discussion a few comment threads up.
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by kevsim 6y ago
Apart from the little video on the landing page, I made a voiced over demo video for our launch on product hunt the other day that shows off a lot of the core stuff: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kitemaker-2
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by kevsim 6y ago
We use the certs automatically issued by GCP, which are also letsencrypt issued.
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by kevsim 6y ago
It is also that and there was quite the rumble on Twitter a while back where the CEO of Clubhouse the issue tracker was getting hatred targeted at the CEO of Clubhouse the audio chat thing.
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by kevsim 6y ago
That's a great question. Most of the companies using us today are small. They range from a single dev team to a small handful of dev teams. We're now starting to work with companies "one step up" from there that are comi
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks! Just so I'm clear - it is Kitemaker or Clubhouse you're having networking problems with?
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by kevsim 6y ago
That's fair enough. The language that's there originally came from the fact that we see many teams where engineers are left out of the loop when it comes to the early stages of planning initiatives/features. One of the benefi
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by kevsim 6y ago
We think Linear's a beautifully designed app that does Jira better than Jira for some teams. That being said, we're trying to be a bit different. Teams using us tend not to split things down into micro tasks, but instead leverage
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by kevsim 6y ago
Exactly! 100 work items that haven't either been archived or deleted. For a small team this usually translates to more than a month of trying it out since teams tend to make slightly larger work items than they would issues in some oth
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks! And thanks for the feedback on the video. We'll check it out. Which browser/os are you using?
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by kevsim 6y ago
That's actually a great suggestion. We'll add that!
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by kevsim 6y ago
This would be amazing! Please reach out to kevin@kitemaker.co
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by kevsim 6y ago
GitLab is our next planned integration. One of our paying customers uses Mattermost so we've started the process of peeking at their API to see what we're up against. Since we've already got Discord/Slack it probably won
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by kevsim 6y ago
GitLab is our next planned integration and one of our current paying customers is using mattermost so it's something we're strongly considering. And this HN launch has given us a lot to think about in terms of self hosting!
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by kevsim 6y ago
My hunch is it's somewhat related to the companies who have been using us thus far (other startups, mainly) and also that people are pretty used to it since many of our competitors don't offer a self hosted option. That being said
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by kevsim 6y ago
Great question! Our pricing is definitely something we think about a lot, so feedback like this is super helpful. The free plan usually gives a small team more than a month to try it out since teams tend to larger (and thus fewer) work item
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback. It's always a bit of a struggle with landing page copy and positioning. But super useful to hear when something doesn't resonate.
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks so much for using it. We really appreciate it. There's a little toggle down in the profile menu in the bottom left (or do cmd+k -> hotkey hints) if you want Kitemaker to give you more hints to help you learn the hotkeys. Basi
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! What we find is that the document-ish interface of Kitemaker lends itself to people sizing their work items a bit bigger than they would in Jira or GitHub issues, and then breaking them down a bit with todos inside.
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks for reporting this! We'll take a look. And thanks for trying it out. We really appreciate it.
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by kevsim 6y ago
GitLab is our next planned integration so hopefully you won't need to wait much longer!
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by kevsim 6y ago
Very cool! We tried Phabricator years and years ago but haven't had much experience since then. GitLab is next on our list, but then we'll see what comes after that. We've gotten a few BitBucket requests. Any idea how popular
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by kevsim 6y ago
We've been waiting on this a bit to see if there's much demand for this and so far the answer has been "not much" but we're open to the idea. So the answer is "not right now". Good news I don't think
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Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams
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by kevsim 6y ago
Even the browser vendors have given up on do-not-track though. Apple even removed support for it from Safari.
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by kevsim 6y ago
We connected with Tom just as we were getting ready to build webhooks into our product (Kitemaker W21). We had a few teams asking for webhooks but didn’t have much time to dedicate to it right now so we were in the market for something like
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by kevsim 6y ago
I really like this concept. I think for me one of the things that kills me about Slack is the way people write tiny little stream of consciousness messages. These are way less thought through even than they would be if you were having a nor

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