# 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.](/content/blog/reduce-saas-feature-requests/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/80-20-saas-customization-build-vs-shape/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/why-saas-devs-hate-column-filter-ticket/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/shapekit-launches-tomorrow/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/crafter-shaper-model/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/build-80-let-users-shape-20/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/agency-client-portal-customization-sinkholes/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/dashboard-control-harder-than-it-sounds/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/agency-client-portal-pain/index.html)
- [March 7, 2026 **Welcome to the ShapeKit Blog**  
News, updates, and insights from the ShapeKit team.](/content/blog/hello-shapekit/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/customization-backlog-dashboard-teams/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/59-content-marketing-tips-for-ecommerce-store/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/api-rate-limiting/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/build-custom-json-api-shopify-liquid/index.html)
- [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)](/content/blog/host-images-on-amazon-s3-in-5-minutes/index.html)
- [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.](/content/blog/200-marketing-hacks/index.html)