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by kevsim 2171 days ago
While maybe not the nicest way to phrase it (and I think you know that), I'll take the bait and tell you how I think we differ from Trello:

- Crazy amounts of hotkeys. You can do everything in Kitemaker without using the mouse. It feels pretty awesome to move issues around the board, assign them, etc. all with hotkeys. Also like many modern products we have a command center (ctrl+K or cmd+K) where you can do everything.

- Our issue screen is quite a lot more powerful than Trello's card view. We've talked to many teams who use Trello and they rarely have much content in their cards. In our issue screen, you get a rich document part (feels quite like Notion, with a lot of things you can drop into the issue like images, Figma designs, etc.) and an activity part (with threaded comments, a history of what's happened with the issues, updates on relevant information from integrations, etc.)

- Better GitHub integration. Our issues actually have issue numbers, so you can do things like "Fix ABC-123" in your GitHub commits and our automation feature will move the issue around the board accordingly (you can set up different rules for if such a message appears in a PR, a commit in master...er main, etc.). We show any activity in GitHub related to the issue right in the issue's activity feed as well.

- Better slack integration. Mentioning issues in Slack automatically attaches the conversation to the issue and also provides useful info about the issue in Slack

- List view. You can see issues in a list instead of a board if that's your thing. Nice for use cases like backlog grooming.

And we're moving fast and adding more useful stuff all the time without becoming too complex or unpleasant to use.

So yes, we have a pretty board and pretty boards tend to look like Trello. But there's a lot more to it than that.