What is MikroLens?

MikroLens is a lightweight product management tool for teams that want a clear path from intake to strategy to work.

It gives product managers and teams one shared place to collect signals, shape ideas, write strategy, plan across horizons, and track the work that follows. The point is not to create another ticket factory. The point is to keep product direction and execution connected.

The Product Chain

MikroLens is built around a simple chain:

1. Intake collects customer requests, support signals, internal asks, and observations.
2. Ideas and work items turn useful signals into owned product work.
3. Documents hold strategy, product evolutions, decisions, and notes.
4. Planning horizons place work into Now, Next, and Later.
5. Work tracks ownership, blockers, target dates, and completion.
6. Understand shows where the system needs attention.

Each part can stand on its own, but the real value is that the chain stays visible. A request can lead to an idea, the idea can link to a strategy document, and the work can keep its reason for existing.

What Is Included

• Spaces for teams, product areas, domains, or initiatives.
• Intake for lightweight signals before something becomes owned work.
• Work items for ideas, tasks, improvements, decisions, bets, and execution records.
• Direct documents for Strategy, Evolution, and Note records that need more room than a work item.
• Planning horizons for Now, Next, and Later thinking inside each Space.
• Understand for blocked work, stale work, intake debt, planning pressure, and ownership gaps.
• Settings for Spaces, horizons, users, API identities, and outbound webhooks.

Good Fits

MikroLens works well for product and engineering teams that want:

• one common place for intake, documents, planning, and work;
• enough structure to stay aligned without heavy workflow administration;
• product managers doing strategic and directional work, not only ticket grooming;
• self-hosted control over product context and operating history.

It is not trying to be a Jira clone, a portfolio suite, a full wiki, or an individual performance dashboard. MikroLens is focused on product clarity: what came in, what matters, what direction exists, what the team is doing, and what needs attention next.

Get Started

To run MikroLens locally:

npm install
npm start

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000.

See Installation for release archives, builds, docs, and verification commands.