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Company blog · specifyapp.com/blogdesignprogramming

Specify is the company blog at specifyapp.com, writing about design and programming. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Show HN: Specify 2.0 – Your design token engine”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

Commenters link Specify for design tokens and design-to-developer workflow, with one comment telling readers to try the site. The comments do not discuss the writing itself.

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.

Flexible and powerful, Specify makes it easy to build the exact Design Token process your Design System needs.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Specify 2.0 – Your design token engine
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Not sure if you're familiar with the movement, but standardized design tokens[1] seem like the future to me, depending on how well they are done. There's a list of major vendor like Adobe, Figma, etc. that are already onboard and the standardization process is progressing slowly but surely. As I'm designing an app I don't want just click & drag visually to get some eye-balled spacing or size value. I want a design s…

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    on “Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth”
  2. Submitted Designing for the Command Line as a story · 15 points

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  3. Try https://www.specifyapp.com and thank me later!

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    on “Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together”
  4. Submitted Show HN: Specify 2.0 – Your design token engine as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Specify, the First Design Data Platform as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Specify as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Introduction to Design Tokens as a story · 1 points

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