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Sigurd Seteklev

Kitemaker - Less issue tracking, more impact

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We're very excited to launch the new Kitemaker! Now even better at releasing you from micro management and the silos of traditional product development tools, supporting you with everything from organizing user feedback to shipping things people want.

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Sigurd Seteklev
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Hi ProductHunt ๐Ÿ‘‹ It's been a while since we last launched and Kitemaker has gone through a massive shift during that time. We completely redesigned the app. The roadmaps and initiatives are much more flexible, our todos are as as feature rich as issues in an issue tracker, and you can now organize user feedback and connect insights to your planned features. Kitemaker is still based on the core idea of helping product development teams perform better. Our goal is to free you from the micro-management and silos of traditional product development tools, focusing on what makes teams excel. That means we're making it easy to share context and discuss, and helping everyone understand the problem they are solving and their users' needs. It's all in a fast, easy-to-use UI making organizing your development work a breeze. We also have a ton of exciting new things in the pipeline, including all the useful AI features imaginable putting your product development workflow on autopilot. We're also making new integrations, even some for your dreaded issue trackers. So stay tuned for more updates from us! Please check us out via the link above, and tell us about your experience! Thank you for supporting our launch!
Dan Hill
@kitemaker congrats on the launch!
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@quietgolfer Thank you, Dan! And thanks for being awesome users!
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@sophiaatdola Thank you! :)
Roza Zakaryan
@kitemaker Congrats, sound a great idea
Lungura Begum
@kitemaker Congratulations on the launch! really do need this.
Dave Jeffery
๐Ÿ’Ž Pixel perfection
I absolutely love that you guys are integrating user feedback natively into issues and tasks. I've tried integrations that do a similar thing but they always feel like such a bolt-on. Congrats @kitemaker team, I'm excited to try this! P.S. Thanks for giving ToDesktop Builder a shoutout!
Kevin Simons
Maker
@kitemaker @davej Thanks Dave! We think having feedback in the same tool as the team tracks/plans the rest of their work can fundamentally change they way teams work. It's pretty awesome ๐Ÿ˜Ž
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@davej Thanks Dave! We also love ToDesktop. So easy to get the desktop clients up and running :)
Carlos Granier
@kitemaker @davej @ksimons Congratulations on the launch. Looking forward to trying out all the new stuff.
Kevin Simons
Maker
@kitemaker @davej @cgranier Thanks Carlos! Happy to hear any feedback you have.
Andrรฉ J
๐Ÿ’ก Bright idea
Hey Sigurd @kitemaker Congrats on the launch! Love the mission of ditching micromanagement that always creeps in with management tools. If I wanted to sell this to my team and convince them easily to use kite maker from what we use today. How would I do it? Do you have a website overview of the difference between kite maker, linear, GitHub, jira, etc? Thanks!
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@sentry_co Thank you! And thank you for you feedback! We don't have that page right now, but we probably should make it. The typical reason for teams to chose Kitemaker over the ones you have listed is to get everything in one place to remove the silos, get everyone on the team to see the user feedback (seeing directly who asked for what in the work items are powerful), and the general idea that product teams are about collaborating on innovation and not less about only tracking tasks/issues. I'd be happy to discuss this further with you, and will happily do demos with you or your team to explain the differences in more detail :)
Andrรฉ J
@kitemaker For sure! I think a comparison table would be gold! That way we could identify areas that would fit how we work, or even how we could work better etc. And calls with you is always a pleasure! You're on my radar for this, so when we upgrade I will make an assessment if we go with linear or something like kite maker. Ill ping you in the not to distant future ๐Ÿ™
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@sentry_co Awesome! Thank you for the comparison table idea. Looking forward to the ping :)
Yasec Kowalski
Congratulations! This looks interesting tho. The redesigned app sounds promising, especially with its enhanced flexibility and feature-rich todos. Can I ask how does Kitemaker ensure smooth integration with existing workflows and tools used by product development teams?
Kevin Simons
Maker
@yasec_kowalski Thanks! We've got some really great, deep integrations to most of the tools your product team probably already uses like GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Discord, Figma and more. It makes it easy to connect discussions and activities in all of those tools to Kitemaker. In terms of workflow, Kitemaker does a better job of representing your team's ACTUAL workflow than any other product development tool. It won't feel like you need to fight the tool - instead it'll feel like you have a tool that actually models your workflow and focuses on what you're shipping to your customers (instead of being obsessed with little micro tasks). We have importers and an API to bring your data in from whatever issue tracker or feedback tool you're using today, though many teams prefer to start cleanly.
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@yasec_kowalski We try to make Kitemaker the central hub of everything going on in the team. So we try to integrate with as many tools as makes sense. The idea is that anyone can go to Kitemaker and see the relevant information of what is going on regardless if that happens in Slack, Figma, or some other tool. There are plenty of more tools that we plan to integrate to, so we are always happy to hear about what people are using to help us prioritize them. Kitemaker is more opinionated in regards of collaboration and communication. So I think you can support more or less any workflow in Kitemaker (we have people using anything from Shape Up to very custom workflows). Our observation is that great teams changes their workflow as the needs change, but the need to collaborate across product, design, and engineering stays constant, so we designed Kitemaker around that idea :) Hope that answered your question. Happy to clarify if there is anything else you want to know about :)
Yasec Kowalski
@kitemaker Wow, thanks for the detailed explanation! I appreciate your insight into the platform's design philosophy. If I have any further questions, I'll be sure to reach out. Thanks again for your response!
Yasec Kowalski
@ksimons That sounds fantastic! Having deep integrations with tools like GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Discord, and Figma is a dope for streamlining team collaboration. Thanks for sharing these insights ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป
Arthur Coudouy
I love to see how much you've improved the product since the beginning, keep going ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@arthurcoudouy Thank you! Also, great job on the progress on Axolo!
Queen Raae
Wow, this looks so good!
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@raae Thank you! Feel free to try it out and send us feedback as well :)
Fawzy Abu Seif
This looks awesome. Congrats!
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@fawzyabuseif Thanks a lot, Fawzy!
Garen D Orchyan
Looks great, big congrats on the launch team, best of luck to you today ๐Ÿฆ„โค๏ธ
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@orchyan Thank you! Appreciate your support ๐Ÿ˜Š Also looking forward to you launch. Looks interesting :)
Kiril Videlov
I used Kitemaker at my previous startup and it was better than any issue tracker Iโ€™ve tried at getting the whole team involved in the product development process and keeping them in the same page. The addition of feedback looks interesting. How do I get feedback into Kitemaker?
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@videlov Thank you for the support, Kiril! There are various ways of getting feedback into Kitemaker. You can simple type them using our document editor, if you get feedback by email you can just forward that to Kitemaker, you can use our Slack, Discord, or Intercom integrations (more coming soon), and you can also use Zapier or our APIs to get them into Kitemaker:) Sometimes simple copy/paste does the job as well :)
Alex Dulub
Hi Sigurd, Congratulations on the massive shift and redesign of Kitemaker! It sounds like you've really honed in on streamlining the product development process. The focus on context sharing and problem-solving is crucial for efficient teamwork. I'm particularly intrigued by the upcoming AI features and integrations. How do you envision AI enhancing the product development workflow further? Wishing you and the team much success with this launch and beyond!
Sigurd Seteklev
Maker
@alex_dulub Thank you, Alex! Yeah, we are already seeing that AI helps product development a lot. That can be anything from converting comments or feedback to tasks, finding similar user feedback or work items, connection user feedback to the correct work items, processing feedback, creating work item from feedback and much more. We don't see that we're automating everything in the short term unless there is another big leap in AI, technology, but there is definitely a lot already that can significantly reduce the amount of time required to manage and organize things.
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