Jonah Samuel

Jonah Samuel

Product Designer & Co-founder

About

I started out as a designer who kept getting pulled into product decisions, and eventually I stopped resisting. Now I build things where the visual craft and the underlying logic have to earn each other. Pretty screens that don't solve a real problem bore me, and so do clever systems nobody wants to look at. Most of my best ideas come from watching people work around my product instead of with it. That workaround is usually a confession. I build small, ship early, and treat feedback like a conversation rather than a verdict.

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21h ago

I Stopped Replying to Every Message and the Work Got Better

I used to answer every message within an hour. Email, support, DMs, comments. I wore it like a badge.

Then I let some things sit. Not everything. Just the ones that weren't urgent, weren't from customers, weren't actually about the work.

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8d ago

The Thing I Write Down Before Every Launch and Never Show Anyone

Before every launch I write one page about what I am afraid of.

Not a plan. Not a checklist. Just the honest list of everything I think could go wrong and everything I am secretly hoping does not happen. The thing I do not say out loud on launch day.

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11d ago

Rename That Missed File 13

I asked Claude Code to rename a function across the codebase. It found 12 files, made the change confidently, and reported success.

What it missed: a thirteenth file in a directory outside its initial search scope. No warning. The app kept working because that file only ran on a rare edge case. I caught it three days later during an unrelated test.

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