François Grante

Co-founder of

[François Grante @fgrante]

Today in Tokyo

[François Grante @fgrante]

@CoderNolimit Félicitations 🎉

[François Grante @fgrante]

💯

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

Designers, YC is calling for you.

@ycombinator just put out a "request for startups" for more designer founders.

starting a group chat for designers who want to build their idea/startup... we’ll share:

- product ideas
- best frameworks and tools
- design engineering talks
- design founder chats

reply if you wanna join

[François Grante @fgrante]

@nico_lrx Hello Nicolas, je t'ajoute deux ressources faites maison :)

Bon courage pour le lancement !

[Banger Archive @bangerarchive]

banger @collision

[kepano @kepano]

What can we remove?

Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.

When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can enjoy a pristine shoreline. When a thousand pieces litter the beach, it is too late. We can only lament the landscape. That’s just how beaches are now.

A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch.

Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamentation that defines our style and the vestigial burdens we carry.

Remember those who did the invisible work of removing. Their legacy was not to build a sand castle, but to care for the beautiful beach on which we play.

[François Grante @fgrante]

Not sure what all these logos are for but it looks exhausting

[François Grante @fgrante]

Easy one since I barely tweet

https://t.co/QHksasrJj9

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

You think you need an app for this, but what you really need is to learn Excel.

[François Grante @fgrante]

Huge if confirmed

[Nick Wilsdon @nickwilsdon]

👀 wow h/t @Rhea

[François Grante @fgrante]

@JarrettYe Will email you, thanks!

[François Grante @fgrante]

B2B to increase your chances of success
B2C for the fun of scaling

[leo @leojrr]

B2B vs B2C

Would you rather have:

⁃ 10 customers paying $1000
⁃ 1000 customers paying $10

Why?

[Stripe France @StripeFrance]

Bonjour ! Stripe est maintenant officiellement disponible en France: https://t.co/fgOfrusx9I 🇫🇷