kGuide, my first software for sale

Kintone

Updated: August 16, 2024

kGuide is a Kintone plugin I developed over the course of a month and some change. The plugin allows users to view onboarding guided tours for Apps, and Admins to create tours with simple click and type.

It is for sale here, for $5 a month, unlimited Apps, unlimited users.

kGuide features:
  1. ・No code drag and drop onboarding guides
  2. ・i18n support for English and Japanese
  3. ・Support for all Kintone fields, dropdowns and menus
  4. ・Permissions based guide creation. Limit guide creation to App Admins
  5. ・Built in Support Inquiries

kGuide came from some of the pains of onboarding during my first months at Cybozu, and the occasional frustration I get when HR or Legal has monolith Apps for registering new records. What if there were a way to show ordered steps through an App, and hold the user's hand as they enter in data? As things stand now, users and admins of complex Kintone Apps have two methods of guiding users through them: 1) Lots of label fields, which can't be hidden, may clutter up the screen, and don't guarantee the user will follow them in order 2) Seprate guides, usually images with red circles, hosted seperately.

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Development of kGuide was my first endeavor into plugin development, and oh boy, there is nothing like dogfooding your own documentation.

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Over the course of the next few blog posts, I'll be talking about the development process, from idea to version 1.0 probably in something like this order:

  1. ・Template Tools and BoilerPlate
  2. ・Building the outline and main functionality
  3. ・Struggles with menus, popups, and menus that spawn more menus :^)
  4. ・Points to improve and future roadmap

Hope to see you there.