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  1. Feature

    Sprint Forecaster (7th free tool)

    /tools/sprint-forecaster is now live. Plug in remaining backlog points, average velocity, and sprint length — get a P50 likely finish date and a P90 conservative date. Embeddable iframe, WebApplication JSON-LD, FAQ section.

  2. Feature

    Blog post #3: Sprint goal examples

    "What a sprint goal should actually sound like" — 7-min read with 12 real examples across product, platform, mobile, security, ops engineering, and design. Plus the "if we only finished this" sanity test, common bad patterns, and 5-minute drill for writing one in planning.

  3. Feature

    vs Azure DevOps comparison page

    /vs-azure-devops is now live. 10th comparison page in the hub. Targets engineering teams considering Microsoft's enterprise stack but only needing a sprint tracker.

  4. Feature

    Blog post: Sprint Velocity Benchmarks + share buttons

    "Sprint Velocity Benchmarks: What numbers healthy teams actually hit" — 9-min read with healthy ranges by team size, the five variables that move the number, and diagnostic questions. Also added X / LinkedIn / Hacker News share buttons to all blog posts.

  5. Feature

    Blog launch + first long-form post

    /blog is now live with our first deep-dive: "Story Points vs Hours: Why agile teams stopped using time estimates". 8-minute read covering the planning fallacy, why velocity self-corrects, the common objections, and a 2-sprint switching plan. BlogPosting JSON-LD, sitemap and IndexNow auto-pickup, footer link added.

  6. Feature

    5 more glossary terms

    /glossary now covers 20 terms: added refinement, spike, cycle time, WIP limit, and technical debt — each with deep partials, examples, and cross-links.

  7. Feature

    vs Shortcut comparison page

    /vs-shortcut is now live. Ninth comparison page in the hub. Targets engineering teams using Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) where Iterations are bolted on rather than the primary unit.

  8. Feature

    Pricing Comparison Calculator

    /tools/pricing-comparison is now live. Compare total annual cost for SprintFlint vs Jira, Linear, Asana, monday.com, ClickUp, and Notion at any team size. Honest list-price benchmarks, USD→GBP converted, with caveats listed. Embeddable iframe.

  9. Feature

    Migration guides hub

    /migrate is now live with step-by-step migration guides for Jira, Linear, Notion, and Asana. Each guide is HowTo JSON-LD'd, AI-importable for ticket data, and offers a free 20-minute setup call. Usually under an hour to migrate.

  10. Feature

    Sprint Health Check tool

    /tools/sprint-health-check is now live. Eight-question interactive assessment of sprint discipline (goal, capacity, velocity, standups, definition of done, retros, estimation, spillover). Live 0-100 score with verdict and personalised recommendations. Embeddable iframe at /embed/sprint-health-check. WebApplication JSON-LD.

  11. Feature

    vs monday.com comparison page

    /vs-monday is now live. Eighth comparison page in the hub. Targets engineering teams currently bending monday.com into a sprint tool. Included in /comparisons hub, sitemap, IndexNow, and /llms.txt.

  12. Improvement

    Templates hub doubled

    /templates expanded from 4 to 8 templates. Added: user story template, pull request review checklist, daily standup template, and engineering manager 1:1 meeting template. All copyable, all downloadable as .md.

  13. Feature

    Free agile templates hub

    /templates now offers four free, downloadable markdown templates: sprint planning meeting, retrospective action tracker, definition of done checklist, and sprint goal canvas. Copy to clipboard or download as .md. No signup required.

  14. Feature

    Public roadmap

    /roadmap is now live. See what's shipping Now, queued Next, and on the radar for Later. Email [email protected] to suggest something.

  15. Feature

    Public changelog + Atom feed

    /changelog now lists every shipped feature, improvement, and fix. Atom feed at /changelog/feed.atom for RSS subscribers.

  16. Improvement

    Expanded /llms.txt for AI assistants

    /llms.txt now includes product positioning, comparisons, free tools, docs, glossary, and editor integrations — so when ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity summarise SprintFlint they have the full picture. robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot, Applebot, and CCBot.

  17. Feature

    Scrum & agile glossary launched

    /glossary now covers 15 essential scrum and agile terms — velocity, story points, sprint, sprint goal, retrospective, burndown, planning poker, kanban, backlog, epic, user story, definition of done, definition of ready, sprint capacity, and focus factor. Each page links into the relevant free tool or doc.

  18. Feature

    Embeddable iframe widgets for all free tools

    Every free SprintFlint tool now has an /embed/ counterpart that bloggers, agile coaches, and Notion users can embed via a one-click iframe snippet. Attribution and a free-trial link appear in the embed footer.

  19. Feature

    Sprint planning guide

    A 1500-word practical guide at /docs/sprint-planning. Covers prep, the 60-minute meeting agenda, story-point estimation, sprint goals, and the five anti-patterns that quietly destroy most planning sessions.

  20. Feature

    Sprint capacity calculator

    Fourth free tool. Plug in team size, sprint length, PTO, and focus factor. Get realistic person-hours and a safe story-point commit. Live recalc, no signup.

  21. Feature

    vs-trello and vs-clickup comparison pages

    Comparison hub now covers seven tools: Jira, Linear, Notion, GitHub Projects, Asana, Trello, and ClickUp. Each comparison includes a 7-row at-a-glance table, feature deep-dives, and when-to-choose guidance.

  22. Feature

    vs-asana comparison page

    New /vs-asana comparison page positioning SprintFlint for engineering teams switching from Asana.

  23. Fix

    Fixed 500 error on /comparisons

    Pre-existing template bug where four link_to blocks were missing `do`, causing ActionView::SyntaxErrorInTemplate. The comparisons hub now renders correctly.

  24. Feature

    Retro template generator

    Third free tool. Pick from five retro formats (Start/Stop/Continue, Mad/Sad/Glad, 4Ls, Sailboat, KALM) and copy a ready-made markdown template into Notion, Confluence, or Google Docs.

  25. Feature

    IndexNow ping service

    SprintFlint now pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam, and Naver via the IndexNow API on every marketing-page change. Faster indexing across non-Google search engines.

  26. Feature

    Three more editor integrations

    /for/codex-cli, /for/continue, and /for/cline join the existing six AI-editor integration pages. Nine editors total, each with editor-specific setup snippets.

  27. Feature

    Sprint velocity calculator + story points estimator

    First two free public tools at /tools. Velocity calculator computes mean, std dev, hit rate, and a 3-sprint forecast. Story points estimator converts points to hours based on your team's velocity.

  28. Feature

    Demo project seeded on signup

    New organisations land in a sprint with sample tickets so you can see how SprintFlint feels before importing real data. Skipped automatically if the org already has projects.

  29. Feature

    Dynamic sitemap and AI-bot-friendly robots.txt

    /sitemap.xml is now generated dynamically and includes every comparison, tool, integration, doc, and glossary page. robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.

  30. Feature

    Landing page FAQ + JSON-LD structured data

    The home page gained an FAQ section and SoftwareApplication / Organization / FAQPage JSON-LD for richer Google SERP results.

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