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contrast.app is the company blog at contrast.app, writing about design and startups. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Show HN: Contrast – Developer Handoff Reimagined for Figma”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link the contrast.app landing page as an example of a slick site that hides what the product does. They discuss the page's design and slogans, not any writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Contrast – Developer Handoff Reimagined for Figma
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. I agree. Look at the landing page [0]. First off, they hijack your scroll wheel and present you with some Apple-esque website that is very slow and doesn't work properly. > "Remote, component-driven, and obsessed with speed." I think not. Second, they show zero screenshots of the service or what the benefits are to using it. > "Handoff reimagined." Yea, okay... Nice slogan, now show me before I move on! No wonder th…

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    on “Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup”
  2. Submitted Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup as a story · 304 points

    HN discussion
  3. I appreciate your feedback! Thank you for sharing moqups. I haven't seen this tool before. There are a lot of tools that do similar things. I think of the categories as: *Design creation* • Figma https://www.figma.com/ • Sketch https://www.sketch.com/ • uizard https://uizard.io/ • Penpot https://penpot.app/ • UXPin https://www.uxpin.com/ *Asset creation* • Canva https://www.canva.com/ • Crello https://crello.com/ •…

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    on “Launch HN: NextUX (YC S19) – Web UX editor and feedback tool for product teams”
  4. Submitted Ditch Jira. Use Linear as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to connect your Storybook and Figma designs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted IBM's 50 Shades of Grey as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Show HN: Contrast – Developer Handoff Reimagined for Figma as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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