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Product designer here. I just spent the past few hours fine-tuning some visual details in our Figma component library. Now I need to file tickets for each change and work with our frontend developers to make sure the updated Figma details get properly mapped over to React.

I've grown numb to the friction, but I think this Utopia demo just reset my pain tolerance. Going back to manually mapping designs from Figma mocks to React components feels so dated. Almost like those PSD2HTML websites of the early 2000s.

The market absolutely needs a product like this.

I've been using Remotion for the past 2 weeks with my startup twingate.com. Here are my thoughts thus far:

- It only works if enough people remember to open it every day. We started with just our frontend team of 4 people and since we're at the end of a sprint and doing a lot of code reviews it's been getting a lot of activity.

- It's more viral than I thought. We went from 4/25 to 12/25 teammates using it in the past week. I typically join a call maybe once a day, but I'm seeing other teammates jump on a call every hour (just saw two people start talking while I was typing this comment).

- The UI is small so it's fairly easy to ignore (especially on a big monitor)

- Since videos are limited to a small circle, ending calls after 5 minutes feels more natural than ending a Zoom call

- Screen sharing is pretty good, but you can't limit sharing to just one app

My theory on why Remotion has picked up so quickly with our team: Working remotely can be lonely. By no means does this solve loneliness, but it definitely gives you back a slice of that working-in-an-office vibe.

Thanks for caring enough to make this comment.

I'm actually fine with the title change as the original title seems to be confusing to some.

The team I'm a part of designed and built the platform Palo Alto uses to publish their financial data, OpenGov.com.

I don't generally put in plugs on HN but we're always looking for people interested in making a difference with the intersection of good government and tech. Drop me a line if you're interested [email protected].

This looks great. Excited so see more from this project.

It would be nice to see what the published thread looks like. Could you have a link to a sample thread on your homepage?

There are a number reasons to adopt retina graphics for your website today but it's not for everyone.

Consider the time it takes to update and maintain 2 versions of all images and ask yourself, is the >1% user base going to outweigh the time it takes to update this?

Make sure you consider the possibility that the >1% who are early adopters of the retina macbook may also be the type of early adopters who would try your alpha version.

As a designer, I know it's a major problem that if you primarily work on the best/brightest displays, you forget what your designs look like everywhere else.

So if you decide to "go retina", make sure you don't get carried away with fine lines and make the <99% squint to see your 8px #f0f0f0 text.

That's a good point. I just added it to the form but if you want us to add that to your application email us at [email protected]