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Shipping an open-source tool alone

Notes from two years of maintaining Kiln: defaults, docs and saying no.

Remy Kalder

Designer, illustrator and creative developer · Lisbon

Kiln has 212 contributors, but most weeks it’s still me and a cup of coffee on Friday afternoon. The trick is saying no to features that would make the config longer than one screen.

Good defaults do more for users than good documentation. The best issue is the one nobody needs to open.

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