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Why Figma Wins
While Hipstamatic built a great tool, it was Instagram that used network effects to win the market. The Instagram versus Hipstamatic story is perhaps the canonical example of a strategy made famous by Chris Dixon’s 2015 essay “Come for the tool, stay for the network.” Chris writes: A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to cal
... See moreAndrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
…Makes me wonder if the path to truly win the modern “productivity app” category is launching an underlying set of APIs for every aspect of project management + personal productivity with a wide and evolving set of products and interfaces (native ones and third-party creations) that users can switch between (and, in the process, endure a light “cle... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
The secret behind Perplexity, Base, & Figma
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On the one hand, design could become one of the few key differentiators in product building and every team with more than 10 employees will have in-house designers.