Zack Katz is the founder of GravityKit. Prior starting GravityView in 2014, Zack was one of the first developers of many Gravity Forms add-ons. He started building on WordPress in 2007.
Zack is a WordPress core contributor, a translator of the WordPress Pirate language (avast!), and a three-time WordCamp organizer.
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Our development team kicked off the day with a call where we discussed communication. Lately, I’ve noticed that our #development Slack channel occasionally gets bogged down by minutiae. I asked the team to hop on a call to unpack why this friction occurs and what we can do to avoid… Read more
Our Gravity Forms add-ons are used all over the world on sites in 112 languages. For 10 years, we struggled to provide users translations in even the most popular languages. Now, with AI, we have a way to do just that. In the past, we have tried to incentize translation… Read more
I have been cast in a play! I’m one of two characters in one scene of a 9-scene play called Love/Sick. I’m one of 18 people. I’m on-stage for 7 minutes. I have half of the lines in the 10-page script. Is this all worth it? Before I even became… Read more
I recently spoke with Steve Burge on his PublishPress podcast about GravityView’s core values. I appreciated our talk and I feel now is an appropriate time to share more about Floaty. Not everyone gets to have a mascot who is as enthusiastic about their product. We’re lucky that Floaty is… Read more
We launched GravityView three years ago! In this post, we celebrate the journey GravityView has “launched” us on 😅 and talk about new features and functionality planned in the next year. I also go over our new renewal process and why we switched. Three years ago, we created GravityView because… Read more
A Great Year for GravityView 2015 was the first full year of sales for GravityView. Over the year, the plugin matured. We filled in missing gaps in functionality like table sorting and added powerful features like the shortcode. In 2015, GravityView had 35 update releases comprised of 1,096 code commits representing 222,008 changed lines of code. I’m proud of where GravityView is… Read more
GravityView went on sale July 24, 298 days ago. Yesterday, GravityView passed $100,000 in sales. I’d like to go over a few numbers and take a look back over the past 10 months and share some of what I’ve learned. Here’s the $100,000 number broken down: $100,850 in sales 1,172… Read more
I’m a huge fan of Jonathan Mann. The theme song for my favorite podcast is by him (Accidental Tech Podcast). His songs are joyful and funny, while always having hooks and melodies that get stuck in your head. I wanted to work with him, so I sent him an email… Read more
A note from Zack This has been an amazing first year for GravityView. Luis and I started working on GravityView as we know it in December of 2013. It’s been an exciting year, and a great start for the GravityView project. Some stats: Made 26 releases, from 1,239 commits to… Read more