There was a full design competition.
Multiple rounds. Proper submissions. Big prize pool.
And yet… the final outcome feels like none of that process mattered.
So here’s our approach ↓
Mistakes happen. As a team, the important thing is to recognize it’s never an individuals’s fault — it’s the process, the culture, or the infra.
In this case, there was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated. Our team has made a few improvements to the automation for next time, a couple more on the way.
I’ve made so many friends and gotten so many opportunities here because people were kind and paid it forward and open to cold DMs. There are very few industries that operate like this.
@jpegaurekpeg@devfolio@jpegaurekpeg is the first person I think of when it comes to documenting things with attention to detail. Every frame he puts out feels considered. Love his work.
YouTube is unmatched for video.
There are many platforms that feel architected ground-up for music.
YouTube Music continues to feel like retrofitted infrastructure.
I migrated to @youtubemusic from @Spotify a couple month back since i already pay for youtube premium, might as well use it.
its been 3 months and i can't get myself to like it
1/n
Strategically, YouTube Music feels like a bundled feature to increase the value of YouTube Premium rather than a product built with deep conviction for music. Users can sense this lack of focus.
8/n