KNav

I've been heads-down on KNav — a command palette you can add to any website to help users navigate faster. Think Cmd+K but for your marketing site, docs, or web app.

One thing I kept running into: people use different no-code platforms (Framer, Webflow, Squarespace) and the integration process is slightly different for each. So I started writing up guides to make it dead simple.

First post is live on how to add KNav to Framer and Webflow sites — more coming soon.

If you want to try it out on your own site, I'm happy to hop on a quick call and walk you through setup. No pitch, just want to see it in the wild and get feedback.

I woke up at 6am, reached for my phone before my eyes fully adjusted, and opened Product Hunt.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/knav

I'd imagined this moment for weeks. Top 10. Maybe top 5. Comments rolling in. That orange "Product of the Day" badge sitting next to KNav's name.

The reality: a handful of upvotes. Crickets in the comments. Somewhere around #47 on the daily rankings, buried beneath AI wrappers and Notion templates.

I refreshed. Then refreshed again. As if the numbers might rearrange themselves into something more palatable.

They didn't.

I know what I'm supposed to say here. It's a learning experience. Launches don't define products. Most successful companies had quiet beginnings.

All true. I'll probably believe it in a week.

But right now? Right now it just stings.

You pour months into something. You obsess over details nobody will notice. You tell yourself this is the one—the project that breaks through. And then the internet shrugs and keeps scrolling.

I'm not writing this for sympathy. I'm writing it because I think we only share the wins. The "we hit #1" posts. The revenue screenshots. The hockey stick graphs.

Nobody talks about the launches that land with a thud.

So here's mine.

KNav still works. The product is still good. Users who find it will still get value from it.

Tomorrow I'll dust off and figure out what's next.

Today, I'm just going to sit with this one for a bit.

I use Cmd+K for everything—Figma, Slack, Linear, VS Code. It's muscle memory at this point. Type what you want, get there fast. Once you're used to that speed, clicking through navbars feels like walking through mud.

I wanted that same experience on my own websites. But every command palette solution I found required manual configuration—mapping keywords, maintaining search indexes, updating it whenever content changed. I just wanted to drop something in and have it work.

The other problem: traditional site search just matches keywords. I wanted an intelligence layer. Something that could actually read my documentation, understand my content, and respond to what users were asking—not just return a list of blue links.

So I built knav.

It's a Cmd+K experience you can embed on any site, no manual setup. Point it at your content and it indexes everything. The AI layer means users can ask questions in plain language and get actual answers, not just search results.

Why I'm soft launching

My instinct was to rush to Product Hunt and treat launch day as the main event. But I've been rethinking that.

PH isn't going anywhere. But the window to learn from a forgiving audience is small. Soft launching lets me figure out what actually resonates before I burn my one shot at a first impression. Friends and early users will tell me what's broken—strangers just bounce.

Right now I'm sharing it with a small group, collecting feedback, and refining before I go loud.

Where it's at

Live at knav.app. Early but functional. Looking for people who'd want to try it on their own site—especially docs-heavy or content-rich pages.

If that's you, I'd love your feedback.