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Latest: 4 November 2026 · What Kood does

Kood · News & Stories ProductEngineeringBillingStory Latest · 4 November 2026
Product

The home screen now says four things instead of one picture

Four drawings replace the single band that used to explain Kood: the chat, the integrations, the stack a project actually ships with, and the controls a business needs.

The band that stood above the footer was one wide image. On a phone it shrank until the words on it were decoration, and on a desktop it read as a picture pasted onto the page rather than as four claims a visitor could take one at a time.

It is now four cards, drawn as four files: Kood Chat, Integrations, Full Stack Infrastructure and Enterprise Control. Each carries its own ground and its own corners, so nothing wraps them in a frame - a card is the artwork, and the layout is two by two on a phone and four across on a desktop.

That is the whole change, and it is the kind worth making: the home screen is the one screen a stranger reads before deciding anything, and it now makes four statements in the space it used to make none.

Engineering

The design review now shows you the page it looked at

A review that renders the project in a real browser, measures it and photographs it now hands the photograph back to the chat, and fixes what it found in one round.

3 November 2026 · Kood

Asking for a design review used to answer with a list of findings and no evidence. The platform was already rendering the project in Chrome, measuring sideways scroll and tap-target sizes, and sending a full-page picture to a model that can see images - but the picture never came back to the person who asked, and the review was never told to look at all.

Both halves are wired now. The chat sends the review a real address for the preview, the review answers with the picture beside its findings, and the picture is drawn under the answer with a caption saying what it is. A review that could not open the page says so, instead of quietly reviewing the code.

Product

The workspace fits in a phone, including the parts that were desktop-only

A menu in the phone header holds every rail action, and the site footer now travels with it, so nothing on the desktop is missing on the device most people actually use.

2 November 2026 · Kood

The rail down the left of the workspace - files, versions, collaboration, publish, settings - was desktop-only by construction: below the medium breakpoint the whole row is hidden, and a phone got three panels at the bottom of the screen and nothing else.

The header now carries a menu on the phone alone. It opens one sheet with every action the rail holds, the owner's two surfaces included, and ends in the site's own footer - the product page, the price list, the three documents and the contact address - because a person reading the app should be able to find the terms from the app.

Engineering

Every project carries its own server, not only its screens

A generated app now ships an API, a data layer with two drivers and its own accounts - so the ZIP somebody downloads behaves like the preview they approved.

30 October 2026 · Kood

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Story

Why a builder needs a newspaper

A product that changes weekly and says so only inside the app is a product whose changes are discovered by accident.

28 October 2026 · Kood

6 stories since 28 October 2026. Written and published by the team that builds Kood; the code these notes come from is the same code the product runs.