Kevin Simons

AI @Scrimba, formerly CTO @KitemakerHQ (YC W21, acquired by ClickUp). AI, coding, software architecture, APIs, startup life and leading engineering teams.

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

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”

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

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

[Sigurd @SigurdSeteklev]

@KitemakerHQ is the only tool that actually does this.

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

https://t.co/LM55kjrhBt 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!

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

Just the way things are ❤️

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

New changelog with the latest updates!

Check out due dates, HubSpot integrations, and a ton of cool new stuff in beta!

All here 👇

https://t.co/2lt9GPbao3

[Sigurd @SigurdSeteklev]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

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

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

@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.

[Sigurd @SigurdSeteklev]

Little known movie trivia...

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

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

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

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.

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

Live footage of PM mastering hotkeys in Kitemaker

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

Designer and engineer after a month of using Kitemaker 🫶

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

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

[Kitemaker @KitemakerHQ]

Two person startup hiring a CPO

[Kevin Simons @ksimons]

My X workflow:

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