Software gets better when users have a seat at the table.
Kino is a toolkit for collecting feedback, sharing a roadmap, and publishing updates — without turning your team into a support desk.
Why Kino exists
Most teams stitch this together from a form, a spreadsheet, and a newsletter. It works until it doesn’t.
Feedback gets lost in inboxes. Roadmaps go stale in slide decks. Changelogs are written once and never read. Kino puts all three in one place, connected — so a request can become a roadmap item, ship, and be announced to the people who asked for it.
It is built for small product teams, indie developers, and maintainers who want a public, honest relationship with the people using their work.
Principles
Public by default
Your boards, roadmap, and changelog live on a public page your users can actually find. This site runs on the same product it sells.
Users at the table
Upvotes, comments, and status changes are first-class. Your users should never wonder what happened to their idea.
Calm by design
No growth hacks, no noisy notifications. Kino should be something you check because you want to.
Built on a modern stack
Kino runs on a fast, well-documented stack, and we publish what it is made of.
Who makes Kino
Kino is currently built and operated by Nate Dunn as an independent project.
It is under active development. Features may change, and some parts of the product described on this site are still being built. The development notice sets expectations for using an evolving service.