From 488adb9ac9431ea77c7d1c4e8e65224ba5529f6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Pither Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:04:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Trim --- src/pages/blog/clojure-in-whimsical.mdx | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pages/blog/clojure-in-whimsical.mdx b/src/pages/blog/clojure-in-whimsical.mdx index abb6a341..933715fb 100644 --- a/src/pages/blog/clojure-in-whimsical.mdx +++ b/src/pages/blog/clojure-in-whimsical.mdx @@ -38,15 +38,17 @@ We first built tools for Mind maps and Stickies. Then we built our own 2D Progra We're continually interested in helping people to communicate in a better way. -**Nate:** I think the communication piece is really interesting. There are times when you want a bunch of people together to share ideas, working on a board. It's really valuable letting everyone get involved, to build consensus, but on the flip side; working in isolation can be really valuable too, to explore ideas, to think through things. And I think that that's something we've especially had to think about with our docs product, is that as you're typing and you have half finished thoughts that is a very personal experience. And so that's something that is interesting to balance, like the collaboration and the communication as you're working on something together, but then asynchronously, what does it look like to share your ideas, get some feedback, you know, go back into Whimsical and reply to that and work through. +**Nate:** There are times when you want a bunch of people together to share ideas and get consensus, working on a board. But on the flip side; working in isolation can be really valuable too, to explore ideas and to think things through. -**Oliver: Do you find that you Dogfood, do you like use your own tool quite a lot? Because it seems like it would be really valuable for exactly what you're talking about.** +And I think that that's something we've especially had to think about with our docs product, is that as you're typing and you have half finished thoughts that is a very personal experience. And so that's something that is interesting to balance, like the collaboration and the communication as you're working on something together, but then asynchronously, what does it look like to share your ideas, get some feedback, you know, go back into Whimsical and reply to that and work through. -**Jānis:** Yeah, we use it. I want to say most of Whimsical runs on Whimsical and a lot of the tools or things that we actually have, we built because we said that we needed them, but we actually wanted to just have them tailored to how we like to work. For example, the stickies, were introduced because we recognised that there are times when you want to sort your stacks. -So we built a lot of tools to facilitate how we thought it would be neat to work. So yes, we're dog-fooding most of the work that happens within Whimsical. +**Oliver: Do you dogfood your own tools?** +**Jānis:** Whimsical runs on Whimsical. A lot of the tools we built because we needed them, and we wanted to have them tailored to how we like to work. -**Jon: It seems like it's been successful. You're now five years in and there are a lot of companies using it. Obviously your intuitions about how such a tool should work have proven correct so far.** +For example, the stickies, were introduced because we recognised that there are times when you need to sort your stacks. + +**Jon: You're now five years in and there are a lot of companies using your products. Obviously your intuitions about how such a tool should work have proven correct so far.** **Jānis:** I think that early on in Whimsical's existence many of the engineers and people were talking to said that there was already a hundred different whiteboard tools or a hundred different diagram tools. My response was always there's space for a hundred and one.