A few weeks ago, I embarked on a journey of discovery, to see how productive I might be using Agentic Coding (Open AI’s Codex in my case) in building SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions that are more than concept demonstrators but rather would be robust enough to field with real customers – all without me writing a single line of code!
In the back of my mind (for over a decade) has been an idea to develop a solution that could display short flash (or routine) messages to SharePoint users on a company Intranet or project site. The sort of communication that is important, but short lived but does not justify a dedicated news article or spamming users with unsolicited emails. Feel free to read my grounding post for what I had in mind.
I called this solution K-Pulse, and I am really rather chuffed with it, as I think can provide a really useful addition to your communications arsenal. And I am proud to announce that K-Pulse flew past quality control last week and has taken up residence in the Microsoft Marketplace at https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/WA200011903.
K-Pulse (like all Kaboodle solutions) is a Freemium product meaning that the core functionality works without a paid-license – simply download and use, and you don’t even need to register. You only need a paid license if you want premium support and/or to unlock enhanced features.
You can find out more from the product page at https://kaboodle.software/Solutions/K-Connect/K-Connect-Pulse, where you can download the solution package and detailed support documentation.
I believe that K-Pulse delivers a capability that many customers have been waiting for patiently, for years! To see if its right for you, I urge you to watch this short 3-minute video – what have you go to lose?
My problem has never been the lack of good ideas, some of which come from my own head and others from my customers. Nor has it been my lack of skills to build SPFx solutions, although since embracing Codex I suspect that my days as hands-on developer are over, meaning that those skills are set to deteriorate ☹. No, my problem has always been a lack of product and brand awareness. Basically, I suck at marketing.
I have a great local customer based for Kaboodle products here in Adelaide, because my customers are gracious enough to endure product demos and see the value. But I can’t seem to get my products out and known to a global market – even though with my paradigm of always offering a functionally useful Freemium version, I am literally giving stuff away!
I am not totally convinced that agentic development has improved the quality of products (although, being true to myself, I suspect that this is more what I want to believe than the reality of it). What agentic development has most certainly done though, is speed up my development and testing cycles by an order of magnitude. Where a product might have taken 100 hours to build and test, I can now do it in 10, and that my friends is a gamechanger!