Kevin Simons

If any engineering managers are thinking of making a change to a more hands-on role, I can tell you right now it’s a blend of “just look at how empty my calendar is” and “damn it, I used to have people for this”

The deadline for the YC W25 batch is in 13 days!

@KitemakerHQ is the only tool that actually does this.

postgres.new is insanely fun to play with. Can't wait to find an excuse to use it for something real. Amazing work by @kiwicopple's team over at @supabase!

Just the way things are ❤️

Happy summer everybody! Due dates and more in the latest issue of the Kitemaker changelog 🔥

The new PM having done no user research filling the roadmap with awesome new ideas.

TFW you are a PM and your teams just switched over to @KitemakerHQ ❤️

@catalinmpit I don’t hate hate them but I prefer to use my password manager when I can so I can skip switching to my email client.

Little known movie trivia...

@jacobmparis This is where Kotlin got it right - you can assign the result of a try/catch to a variable.

are you gonna Let your code look like this? or fix it with one little var

Who's building commercial open source products where the main focus is on self-hosting (or desktop apps)? Feels like the hot companies in commercial open source (PostHog, Supabase, etc.) are all mainly focused on their hosted offerings.

When you are not using Kitemaker and someone asks what user insights you based the new feature on

TFW you are a PM and the team uses Kitemaker ❤️👼⛅️

Live footage of PM mastering hotkeys in Kitemaker

Connecting user feedback in Kitemaker directly to your team's efforts helps everyone understand the underlying reasons.

When you are a junior engineer, and the PM hands you a spec and requires you to commit to a deadline.

Designer and engineer after a month of using Kitemaker 🫶

Founders explaining to their first engineering hire how the code works.

Two person startup hiring a CPO

My X workflow: 1. Reply to some post 2. Receive like and/or follow from bot user 3. Block bot user 4. ??? 5. Profit