Congratulations on the launch.
How does this compare with https://linear.app?
Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams
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#42Congratulations on the launch. How does this compare with https://linear.app ?
For one it doesn't lag when I scroll through their landing page unlike linear.app
2015 MacBook Pro with Firefox
Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams
#43What is 100 active tasks? Is the size of the backlog + working on tasks?
Exactly! 100 work items that haven't either been archived or deleted.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 other tools.
Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams
#44Congratulations on the launch. How does this compare with https://linear.app ?
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 the document-like structure of our work items to bring the whole team into a single workspace, thinking about and working on features/initiatives together. I think we also think about integrations a bit differently, but I don't have a ton of experience with Linear's integrations.
We're also a bit more crazy about hotkeys I think. Seriously, we're pretty obsessed ;-)
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#45Congrats on the launch! Some feedback from a potential customer: The first thing I read on your homepage is: "A faster and more engaging way to empower your team." This means absolutely nothing to me - I have no idea what your product does. Something like "Faster issue tracking for remote teams." would be better. Hope this helps!
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.
If your page resonates, there's probably something wrong with your monitor. If you want engineers to be interested in your product, stick with concise and accurate descriptions, stay away from vague and meaningless business buzzwords and buzzphrases.
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#46We just started using Kitemaker for our development team a week ago and it is so much faster!
We were using Notion before and it got slow with more and more tasks and people.
It took us about half an hour to learn all the shortcuts, but that time has been worth it already.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If your page resonates, there's probably something wrong with your monitor. If you want engineers to be interested in your product, stick with concise and accurate descriptions, stay away from vague and meaningless business buzzwords and buzzphrases.
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 benefits teams have told us they get from Kitemaker is getting the whole team involved earlier, rather than PMs doing too much of the planning themselves and then just splitting tasks out to engineers.
But we'll revisit it!
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#48This is exciting! As a person that has begun writing my own JIRA client (frustrated with JIRA Cloud performance compared to JIRA Server and frankly anything else), I welcome this alternative :) One little nitpick: something about the video on the homepage makes it look weird - very sharp (non-antialiased) while downscaled: https://i.imgur.com/bNWJAIE.png
Thanks! And thanks for the feedback on the video. We'll check it out. Which browser/os are you using?
Same experience.
macOS Catalina
Firefox and Chrome
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#49You're selling yourself as a fast alternative to Jira. There's already an established company doing that ( https://clubhouse.io/ ). They also offer a free plan for teams of up to 10 users. You're obviously in business to make money, so good that you're focused on selling your product, but why would someone pay for Kitemaker rather than use Clubhouse for free? Edit: Yes, Kitemaker has a free plan, but it looks quite l…
Clubhouse use letsencrypt (not professional for a business to do that, seriously), and why do they have a picture that pretends to be a clickable video. Not a good start.
Re: Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams
#50You're selling yourself as a fast alternative to Jira. There's already an established company doing that ( https://clubhouse.io/ ). They also offer a free plan for teams of up to 10 users. You're obviously in business to make money, so good that you're focused on selling your product, but why would someone pay for Kitemaker rather than use Clubhouse for free? Edit: Yes, Kitemaker has a free plan, but it looks quite l…
Clubhouse use letsencrypt (not professional for a business to do that, seriously), and why do they have a picture that pretends to be a clickable video. Not a good start.
Why shouldn't a professional business use Let's Encrypt?