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It's an everyday affair, every single day there are several promoted Figma stories on the front page. It's not really that revolutionairy either, other than the

It's an everyday affair, every single day there are several promoted Figma stories on the front page. It's not really that revolutionairy either, other than the model of putting it behind the cloud instead of letting people own the product on their computer.

solardev 2y ago
Is that really true? Looking at stories in the past year (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false&query=Figma&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...), it seems like we easily go weeks between high-scoring Figma stories. And that's for a widely-used tool that's critical to many of our teams on an everyday basis, vs say the stories about the latest ephemeral crypto or AI company hype. Would you feel the same way about stories about popular IDEs or programming languages, for example? Figma is THAT important for some of us, and I appreciate reading about it here. > It's not really that revolutionairy either, other than the model of putting it behind the cloud instead of letting people own the product on their computer. I mean, sure, but that's also in and of itself pretty important. That's how they were able to so quickly displace Sketch and Photoshop and Adobe XD. It IS pretty revolutionary to be able to code a heavy, powerful, performant app like that in the browser, the same way it was when Google Docs first came out and people were like "what, you can run microsoft word in the browser?" What previously would've required a lengthy CD-ROM install (or hundreds of megabytes of downloads and patches) can now load in a few seconds in a browser window, with multiple users and editors all collaborating at the same time, including managers with no graphics software training. That's pretty amazing -- not just according to me, but the millions who use it. In contrast to so much on HN, Figma actually offers a real product used daily by millions of users. They didn't do that by offering something nobody wanted. It's an exceptionally good product built to high UI standards, performing well on bog-standard browsers across a variety of machines. That's no easy feat. As a frontend dev, I really appreciate the effort and thoughtfulness they've put into it. That's just me. It's fine if that's not interesting to you, but again, just scroll past it...?

solardev 2y ago

Is that really true? Looking at stories in the past year (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false&query=Figma&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...), it seems like we easily go weeks between high-scoring Figma stories. And that's for a widely-used tool that's critical to many of our teams on an everyday basis, vs say the stories about the latest ephemeral crypto or AI company hype. Would you feel the same way about stories about popular IDEs or programming languages, for example? Figma is THAT important for some of us, and I appreciate reading about it here. > It's not really that revolutionairy either, other than the model of putting it behind the cloud instead of letting people own the product on their computer. I mean, sure, but that's also in and of itself pretty important. That's how they were able to so quickly displace Sketch and Photoshop and Adobe XD. It IS pretty revolutionary to be able to code a heavy, powerful, performant app like that in the browser, the same way it was when Google Docs first came out and people were like "what, you can run microsoft word in the browser?" What previously would've required a lengthy CD-ROM install (or hundreds of megabytes of downloads and patches) can now load in a few seconds in a browser window, with multiple users and editors all collaborating at the same time, including managers with no graphics software training. That's pretty amazing -- not just according to me, but the millions who use it. In contrast to so much on HN, Figma actually offers a real product used daily by millions of users. They didn't do that by offering something nobody wanted. It's an exceptionally good product built to high UI standards, performing well on bog-standard browsers across a variety of machines. That's no easy feat. As a frontend dev, I really appreciate the effort and thoughtfulness they've put into it. That's just me. It's fine if that's not interesting to you, but again, just scroll past it...?