Blog

Our designer, Pavel, summarizes his first year at Kitemaker and everything that has been launched since he joined.

How we tried to think different when building cycles in Kitemaker.

2023 was another great year for product development writing, and this year we decided to resume our tradition of listing 10 notable pieces.

There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving without any PMs.

Jira and other issue trackers have been the go-to-tool for tracking software development work for the last decades. However, are they right for modern product teams?

By replacing our GraphQL client, we were able to remove a bunch of unnecessary processing and prevent our app from freezing up

Creating effective product description documents: best practices and key takeaways for aligning your team

We moved to Recoil.js to help remove unnecessary re-renders in our React application. Here are some tips we learned along the way.

Issue trackers are great at what they were built for. Namely, tracking bugs. But using them for tracking a product development workflow has a lot of issues, perhaps not widely known in the tech community.

Someone told us that "Kitemaker does for product teams what Figma did for design". Find out why.

Here is a list of a few excellent product development articles written in 2021.

How we use our own tool to build our tool!

Why and how to empower your engineers.

Here is a list of a few excellent product development articles written in 2020.

Right-sizing work items is one aspect we have been thinking a lot about.

The benefits and how-tos for building an offline first web app.

The 2020 Scrum Guide was recently published. Here is some of our thoughts.

What we call things colors how we think about them.

The best and worst part of product development is the mess.

Building an awesome editor for your React-based web application is by no means easy. But with SlateJS things get much easier.

This is a post about the pain that comes from trying to scale CSS in a large project.

At Kitemaker, we’re firm believers in the fact that the single best way to get your team to perform better is to get them to collaborate more closely.

A particular form of procrastination I've found in others and me — failure to just get started.

In this article we describe the background for why we started building Kitemaker.