this week in @reintersect:
- desktop app controls should actually be intuitive now
- our emoji picker now longer tries to load the universe
https://t.co/bSEr5kUt21
one thing i love about startup life, especially around SF, is how editable the world starts to feel. you say something that would sound insane in most rooms and they start helping you figure out what would need to be true.
every sufficiently complex product discovers that `loading: boolean` is a lie
there's loading because nothing is here yet, loading more while data is on screen, a 404, an error
collapsing those into one boolean changes how users perceive your product. you get spinners when you should get skeletons, blank states where partial data would help
these small distinctions are the difference between "this app is thinking" and "what the hell"
most productivity tools try to make an hour faster. but the best engineer you know already lost 6 hours to meetings and slack.
why optimise the 1 hour when you can unlock the 6
this week in @reintersect:
- we finally shipped the desktop app you've all been asking for.
- search, notifications, and the composer have gotten a whole lot more reliable.
https://t.co/mcgSTZTtus
startup life is deranged but i really love the good version of it. people helping people win. also doing it with your cofounder/bestie makes the whole thing significantly less insane.
most work has a messy middle. too big for a group chat, too early for a doc, too human to become a ticket. i think that's how people figure out what matters.
i have this awkward belief that the future has less software in it. which is inconvenient because i am building software.
but when startups take themselves seriously they subscribe to slack, notion, linear, figma, chatgpt... isn't needing 10+ apps just to coordinate a little crazy?
software should absorb coordination, not create new coordination rituals around itself.
this week in @reintersect:
- you asked, we listened. we rebuilt our composer for phones, it should be much nicer now.
- we tightened up notifications.
https://t.co/ceDWeUvrmJ
early stage startups get weird around 10 people.
everyone used to know everything, now they don't. people start asking where things are. some people become information plumbing. process appears and everyone pretends this is just growing up.
sometimes this is just the moment you stop being a startup.
what if people don't hate work, they hate the machinery around work.
the pings, the follow-ups, the status docs, the meetings that exist because slack threads can't tell you what's actually important.
people like making things. they hate operating the machine around making things.
i've been heads down building for a while, which was probably healthy for everyone involved. @reintersect is still early, weird, and hard to explain without sounding a little bit insane.
what we’re building, what we’re learning, why work feels so broken, why software keeps making humans do computer jobs, and whatever else crawls out of my brain while trying to make this thing exist.
but it's all becoming real enough that i'm rly excited to start sharing more of it. i promise to resist becoming a linkedin poaster for as long as my little soul can manage.
anyways, hello internet.