Dimitri Zordan

Product designer & graphic artist obsessed with clarity.
@AionBuilders Co-Founder
Supporting @killiandvcz building @palimpsest_app
for writers & worldbuilders.

[Killian Di Vincenzo @killiandvcz]

I owe you an explanation.

When I announced Nabu a month ago, some of you started following. And then I basically vanished. Not because I stopped working. Because I got completely swallowed by something else : building the Aion Builders website, the "home" for everything I make. And I kept doing it, destroying it, redoing it, for months. Never satisfied. Never shipping.

Honestly ? I still don't love it.

But here is the thing I had to accept : I could stay in that loop forever. There is always another detail to fix, another component that doesn't feel right. The truth is I don't always know where I stand. Some days I feel like I am building something real. Other days I can't produce anything worth keeping, and I end up just bookmarking the wildest designs I find on X, wondering if I will ever get there.

Build in public is hard when you feel like you haven't earned the right to be in public yet.

But I realized something. Fear doesn't go away if you wait. It just sits there and eats at you until you stop wanting to build anything at all. And I have so much I want to build. I want to ship things that matter, find clients, move forward with my mate @DimitriZordan , create stuff I am actually proud of.

Okay. Here is where things stand.

Nabu is back in active development. The architecture is solid. What comes next is finishing the essential blocks and getting the core tight enough to call it a beta. Clean, honest, no fake roadmap.
https://t.co/XbOWHfwXB9

Palimpsest alpha is close. One blocker left : syncing the structure of a writing project with meta blocks across the Nabu editors, the thing that makes it feel like one coherent world instead of separate documents. Once that lands, the alpha drops. Mac, Linux, Windows.
https://t.co/WDGQxRG5s4

Everything to follow both builds is live at https://t.co/EYgcxd7VI8.

Let's go. 🫡

[Killian Di Vincenzo @killiandvcz]

I'm freaking out lmao — I've been going back and forth for days on whether this is worth sharing. First step into build in public, first big open source project. It's not ready. But if I don't ship it, it never will be.
So — introducing Nabu, my rich text editor engine for Svelte 5 🎉 → https://t.co/OEPD7KlazO
A few things that might interest you if you're in the Svelte ecosystem: — Built natively on Svelte 5 Runes (no adapter layer, no compatibility shim) — Loro CRDT as the single source of truth — the doc state lives in the CRDT, not in the DOM — Single contenteditable architecture — one node for the whole document — Extension Registry pattern — block types are composable and pluggable
Still an alpha. I'd even call it a big prototype. But the hard architectural problems are solved, and I'm not dropping this — it's going to become the core engine of a larger product I'm building, so long-term commitment is baked in.
Feedback very welcome, especially from anyone who's wrestled with rich text in Svelte before. 🙏
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