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Imtiaz Rayhan

Founder of GritShip. Building a project management tool for makers who would rather ship than configure.

Hey, I'm Imtiaz

I build GritShip — a lightweight, web-only project management tool for solo developers, freelancers, and small teams of two to ten people. Trello simplicity meets Linear speed, without the bloat.

Before GritShip, I co-founded DotCamp, where I spent years building WordPress plugins used by product teams around the web — including WP Table Builder and Ultimate Blocks. I first touched WordPress in 2012, fell into building for the web, and haven't stopped shipping since. These days I work mostly in TypeScript and React. You can find more of what I've built at imtiazrayhan.com.

Why GritShip exists

Every project management tool I tried as a solo developer felt like it was built for someone else. Jira was optimized for 200-engineer orgs with dedicated project managers. Notion turned into a weekend-long database build that I never opened again. Trello lagged past 50 cards. Linear was excellent but priced per seat for features I would never use.

None of them were built for the person I actually was: someone who wanted to open a board, create a task, and get back to shipping in under a minute. So I started building the tool I wished existed.

GritShip has a hard constraint — every UI interaction responds in under 200ms, the initial JavaScript bundle stays under 100KB gzipped, and no dependency over 10KB ships without justification. Those constraints are the product. They are the reason GritShip feels the way it does.

What I believe about tools

Speed is a feature, not an aspiration. Less is more — every feature added is a feature someone has to learn. Free should mean free, not a demo mode with a watermark. And the best tools are the ones you forget you are using, because they get out of the way and let you do the work.

GritShip is intentionally smaller than every competitor. No Gantt charts, no sprint planning, no time tracking, no custom workflows, no AI. If you need those, there are excellent tools built for that. GritShip is for the 95% of software teams that have fewer than ten people and just want a fast board that gets out of the way.

Want to connect?

I'm building GritShip in public. If you want to follow along, trade notes, or tell me what GritShip got wrong, the best places to reach me are:

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