Blog

News, updates, and insights from the ShapeKit team.

Articles

• June 12, 2026 How to Reduce SaaS Feature Requests Without Disappointing Your Users
  Most SaaS feature requests are customization requests in disguise. Here's how to shrink the backlog without saying no to your best users.
• May 5, 2026 The 80/20 of SaaS Customization: Build vs. Let Users Shape
  A 2x2 for which customization requests deserve a sprint, which deserve a setting, and which should never have been a ticket.
• May 4, 2026 Why Every SaaS Dev Hates the Column-Filter Ticket
  A 'just add a column' ticket looks like 30 minutes of work. The real cost is a sprint, every quarter, forever. Here's the math, and the way out.
• April 14, 2026 ShapeKit Launches Tomorrow. Here's Exactly What You're Getting.
  No waitlist. No limited beta. Tomorrow you sign up and you're in. Here's what's live on day one — and what's coming next.
• April 7, 2026 The Crafter/Shaper Model: Why We Split the Dashboard Role in Two
  Most dashboard products try to serve the developer and the end user with a single interface. ShapeKit splits them deliberately — and that split is why constrained shaping works.
• March 31, 2026 Build 80%, Let Users Shape the Last 20%
  The best SaaS products define what's fixed and let users fill in what's flexible. Here's why most dashboards miss this — and how to apply the 80/20 model.
• March 24, 2026 Agency Client Portal Customization Sinkholes
  How client portals turn into per-client maintenance nightmares — and the constrained shaping model that gets you out.
• March 17, 2026 Why Giving Users Dashboard Control Is Harder Than It Sounds
  Schema drift, multi-tenant isolation, constraint enforcement, and performance — the four walls every team hits when building user-configurable dashboards.
• March 13, 2026 Why Every Agency Builds the Same Client Portal from Scratch
  Service businesses rebuild the same client tracker for every new client. Here's why that loop happens — and how constrained shaping breaks it.
• March 7, 2026 Welcome to the ShapeKit Blog
  News, updates, and insights from the ShapeKit team.
• March 6, 2026 The Customization Backlog: Why Every Dashboard Team Reinvents the Same Wheel
  Every dashboard team spends ~30% of sprint capacity on user customization requests. Here's why the problem is structural, not tactical — and what the fix actually looks like.
• December 20, 2021 59 Content Marketing Tips to Energize Your eCommerce Store
  Implement these 59 fantastic content marketing tips to help you connect with your customers and increase organic traffic to your site.
• December 20, 2021 API Rate Limiting
  Rate limiting allows an API Account to make a certain amount of requests per second to a business’s data before being throttled.
• December 20, 2021 How to build a custom JSON API in Shopify with Liquid
  Learn how to build a custom JSON API in Shopify with Liquid - a trick for when you want to build really interesting AJAX experiences in a theme.
• December 20, 2021 How To: Host Images on Amazon S3 – Cheap In 5 Minutes
  We'll teach you How To Host Images On Amazon S3 for 1 year for less than the cost of a stamp! (in most cases)
• June 26, 2016 200 Marketing Hacks & Tools to Ensure Your Startup Crushes It
  Here are the top 200 marketing hacks and tools from around the web to help your startup dominate right out of the gates. You'll love #132.