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Product designer here. I just spent the past few hours fine-tuning some visual details in our Figma component library. Now I need to file tickets for each change and work with our frontend developers to make sure the updated Figma details get properly mapped over to React.

I've grown numb to the friction, but I think this Utopia demo just reset my pain tolerance. Going back to manually mapping designs from Figma mocks to React components feels so dated. Almost like those PSD2HTML websites of the early 2000s.

The market absolutely needs a product like this.

I've been using Remotion for the past 2 weeks with my startup twingate.com. Here are my thoughts thus far:

- It only works if enough people remember to open it every day. We started with just our frontend team of 4 people and since we're at the end of a sprint and doing a lot of code reviews it's been getting a lot of activity.

- It's more viral than I thought. We went from 4/25 to 12/25 teammates using it in the past week. I typically join a call maybe once a day, but I'm seeing other teammates jump on a call every hour (just saw two people start talking while I was typing this comment).

- The UI is small so it's fairly easy to ignore (especially on a big monitor)

- Since videos are limited to a small circle, ending calls after 5 minutes feels more natural than ending a Zoom call

- Screen sharing is pretty good, but you can't limit sharing to just one app

My theory on why Remotion has picked up so quickly with our team: Working remotely can be lonely. By no means does this solve loneliness, but it definitely gives you back a slice of that working-in-an-office vibe.

Thanks for caring enough to make this comment.

I'm actually fine with the title change as the original title seems to be confusing to some.

OpenGov - Mountain View, CA

OpenGov is a powerful platform that strengthens the bond between citizens and their governments as well as increases internal efficiency in financial planning and analysis. We design innovative interfaces that transform complex government financial data into approachable and actionable visualizations for citizens, journalists, and government employees.

We have a huge vision and we're backed by folks who do as well. We're 35 people strong, based in mountain view, and have raised $22 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, and Thrive Capital.

There's a lot to do Creating new, cloud-based technology for an old-line industry is challenging, but also immensely rewarding. Your work will affect and transform governments and the communities they serve in new and profound ways. We recognize that recruiting and cultivating amazing people is the key to developing the powerful and intuitive software that can achieve our company's goals.

Apply at: https://www.opengov.com/careers

The team I'm a part of designed and built the platform Palo Alto uses to publish their financial data, OpenGov.com.

I don't generally put in plugs on HN but we're always looking for people interested in making a difference with the intersection of good government and tech. Drop me a line if you're interested zjohnston@opengov.com.

She should really look into http://codehs.com

I've gone through most of the lessons and while they do a really good job of breaking coding concepts down into real world scenarios involving dogs and tennis balls.

I think they also provide live chat based help if you pay extra.

This looks great. Excited so see more from this project.

It would be nice to see what the published thread looks like. Could you have a link to a sample thread on your homepage?

There are a number reasons to adopt retina graphics for your website today but it's not for everyone.

Consider the time it takes to update and maintain 2 versions of all images and ask yourself, is the >1% user base going to outweigh the time it takes to update this?

Make sure you consider the possibility that the >1% who are early adopters of the retina macbook may also be the type of early adopters who would try your alpha version.

As a designer, I know it's a major problem that if you primarily work on the best/brightest displays, you forget what your designs look like everywhere else.

So if you decide to "go retina", make sure you don't get carried away with fine lines and make the <99% squint to see your 8px #f0f0f0 text.

That's a good point. I just added it to the form but if you want us to add that to your application email us at api@oneschool.com

OneSchool is looking for beta users to build the first products on top of its API.

The API is part of a larger OPEN movement to liberate data from schools and enable startups to build amazing products from that data. http://oneschool.com/open

Appreciate the advice. We just moved to startuptees.com (thanks to Roddy)

I built the site out this weekend. The past couple weeks we've been receiving the shirts.

Appreciate the support :)