The Story of Heroku [audio]

TIL Heroku v1 was a web editor like Replit or Codespaces, and they had a side feature to import an existing app as a ZIP file and people were using that for easy deploys even if they didn't use the editor. Also TIL "folk practice."

> We sometimes call this a "folk practice" in the product design world, which is the idea of someone's using something in a way that is not really quite how it was intended or designed for but they're pointing the way towards their true problems.

I’m currently listening to this. At a few points, they talk about competitors and seem to have difficulty finding too many to mention.

I’m a bit surprised MS OneNote isn’t mentioned as a collaborative infinite canvas. Maybe I just haven’t gotten to that part.