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Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by sjg007 »

kevsim wrote: post #98
sjg007 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I really like activity feed concept, certainly better than confluence digest emails I get daily.

Thanks very much! We've gotten some requests to "lift" the feed up to each level of the tool summarize what's been going on. Something we've thought about quite a bit but haven't had time to get to just yet.

Maybe you have this but a way to align with a master timeline or set of timelines would be great too. Master timeline would have a bunch of branches like git does.

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by Dansvidania »

kevsim wrote: post #13
mellavora wrote: post #12

Just set up an account. Looks slick. I'm on slow internet at the moment, and between when I entered my username and the box asking me to set up my organization, a popup flashed saying "that user name is taken" (disappeared 1/2 sec later). Might want to check your business logic throughout for effects of slow internet. Because sometimes a remote team member can be more remote than you expected.

Thanks for reporting this! We'll take a look. And thanks for trying it out. We really appreciate it.

I am not on a slow connection, but the popup showed up for a fraction of a second for me as well.

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by keithnz »

I always wonder why Jetbrains YouTrack never gets much mention, it's a really versatile system. Though the real area where it shines is where you have multiple projects to manage and teams of people who are spread across multiple projects.

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by kevsim »

oakmad wrote: post #105

I know the answer is probably not, however do you have plans for things like hipaa compliance? I’m struggling to find a great IM solution that is - perhaps self hosted as others have asked?

No immediate plans, sorry. But we're definitely going to have a chat about self hosting since there seems to be some demand there.

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by tibu »

MGDN wrote: post #70
Operyl wrote: post #3

Are there plans for self-hosted versions? That's pretty much the "if I will use it or not" question for me. Atlassian's killing of their self-hosted solutions for smaller companies is just really a shame.

It's a damn shame the ticketing / collaboration world is still moving to the cloud. 100% don't want my company's data on someone else's server. I also 100% don't want to have to use Remedy ever again

Then what will I do with my Remedy programming knowledge?! (I don't cry it back) Funny thing is that when we changed from Remedy to another system we continued to use the Remedy name for the new system to avoid confusions by the end users. Actually we called it RemedyHD. :)

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by kevsim »

nicholascgilpin wrote: post #100

My team was looking for something like this. We ended up choosing Gitlab since we were already using their VCS. These organization products all look so complicated. I can't see the value add here vs Notion/Atlassian/etc. A feature list and example use cases would help.

Thanks for the feedback!

We'll definitely add much more of a feature by feature comparison with some of our competitors.

With regards to complexity, we have a principle that we try to hide as much complexity as possible from users until they need it. So rather than big forms with loads of dropdowns or a lot of boxes that need filling in, we try to keep the UI pretty sparse. We tuck things behind buttons or in the cmd+K menu so they're out of they way. Some examples of stuff that's not in the UI til you need it:

* Added team members to work items

* Setting effort/impact of work items

* Adding a backlog to a space

* Etc

These are all things that some teams but not all teams need, so we don't want to give teams the feeling they're doing something wrong just because they're not using them.

Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams

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Post by marcinzm »

jerrygoyal wrote: post #88
marcinzm wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>1st is to tell what value you provide to your customers (Mario analogy https://twitter.com/GorvGoyl/status/1334116488349827072 ) Their example is a product that is so universally well known that everyone will know what it does. So they do in fact explain what the product does in a single word right at the top: "Colgate". They don't need more. You do.

this makes sense for household brands (slack, gmail etc) but what about the other businesses. So, I quickly checked landing pages (on phone) of some successful Saas products like asana, figma, basecamp, trello, notion and they all seem to provide value first (above the fold) and immediately after it they provide a screenshot of what their tool looks like. Good learning.

Interesting, thinking about it the audience is what matters. Someone landing on your webpage is already primed with what the product is. For example monday.com talks about value first. However the Google Search copy mentions what it does, the TV commercial mentions what it does, etc. So if you're on monday.com then you already know what the product does. Even if you heard it by word of mouth, you'd have been told context around what it is.
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