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Kindling Staff · 2 days ago

It Started in a Notebook: Our First Nine Years

A mostly-honest history of the decade we didn't plan for, and the essays that changed how we build — Kindling turned nine in June. We began with one rule: a piece should be long enough to say the thing…

Writing by hand in a notebook, photo by Biekir Litovchenko on Pexels

Kindling 11 min read

Marisol Treviño · Jun 24

Custom Domains, a Mobile Composer, and a Feed That Actually Follows You

Working toward a product you can rely on — a large share of the work at Kindling comes down to earning trust with the writers who publish here, and then not spending it carelessly…

Typing on a phone, photo by Mwabonje Ringa on Pexels

Short Reads 4 min read

Devin Okafor · Jun 11

What 4,318 Reader Surveys Told Us About Ending an Essay

We asked people where they stopped reading and, more usefully, where they wished they had kept going. The last two paragraphs do more work than the headline, which is not what any of us expected…

Reader with an open book, photo by Sara Er on Pexels

Craft 7 min read