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Whimsical Blog
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Whimsical Blog is the company blog at whimsical.co, writing about startups, design and programming. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How we built our startup (it's all about balance)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Whimsical mainly to recommend its diagramming product (flowcharts, sticky notes, collaborative diagrams), not its blog writing. None of the comments judge the blog's posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Design and document implementation with diagrams. Shape UI with wireframes. Collaborate with your team and AI.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-29
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-29
- How we built our startup (it's all about balance)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-23
- Why we chose to bootstrap our business2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-12
What Hacker News says?
I use Whimsical. https://whimsical.co/ It makes it super simple to create good-looking diagrams, and it can do a lot more than just diagrams too.
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on “Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?”Submitted How we built our startup (it's all about balance) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThat’s not it, but I really like Whimsical ( https://whimsical.co ) to produce great-looking diagrams.
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on “October 21 post-incident analysis”Submitted 10 Reflections from Founding a SaaS Startup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSimilar story here - started with DraftJS but it was kind of cumbersome. Slate in comparison is much more flexible and we've been using it in production for almost a year now. In fact we just launched a sticky notes project management tool which features a smooth rich text editing based on slate https://whimsical.co/sticky-notes/
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on “Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors”Submitted Why we chose to bootstrap our business as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor front-end to back-end web development, UI/UX-friendly collaborative diagramming: https://whimsical.co and https://figma.com (new FigJAM tool).
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on “Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?”Submitted Why bootstrap? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy favorite tool for flow charts is Whimsical. It offers just the right amount of control and the output charts look fantastic. https://whimsical.co/flowcharts/
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on “Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac”Submitted Why We Optimized Left-Handed Shortcuts in Whimsical Wireframes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn the meantime before this launches, shout out to the people over at https://whimsical.co/ for launching this product earlier this year. I've been using that (browser based), and loving it. Excited to see what this app is once it launches.
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on “Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac”Submitted How we built Whimsical as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI would like to share another gem in this category: https://whimsical.co One can design some sleek looking flowchart in minutes. Super time saver.
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on “Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac”Submitted Doing more than one thing – a product strategy lesson from Intercom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMonodraw is one option: https://monodraw.helftone.com/ Whimsical is another: https://whimsical.co/
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on “Ask HN: Architecture Diagrams for GitHub Readme.md?”Submitted How We Built Whimsical: It's All about Balance as a story · 1 points
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