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Obvious in hindsight

Design notes from building Did It. I'm a designer not a coder, so swapped out design apps for AI agents to see what's possible.

3 months in, 300 commits, 10 releases, 400+ users and counting.

And the best bit, lots of feedback from real people using Did It daily 🥰

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Design notes

On trying not to be a dickover

Telling users something without stopping them to do it.
An entry is just an entry, right?

I wanted a day of entries to feel special.
How Did It knows what you mean

When a tooltip became an enjoyable feature, and when to draw the line.
I want to live in a Gaudi world. Just not today.

On the gap between could and should.
Can we just?

Adding captions to photos, one small tweak at a time.
From if you know, you know, to just press the button

Adding rich text formatting to entries