Tom McKenzie

Tom McKenzie

Founder @ HappyGraphic

About

Hi there! I'm Tom. By day, I run a subscription-based design agency called HappyGraphic. By night, I build micro-SaaS tools that (hopefully) make people's lives easier. I'm interested in the foundational tools we work with every day — specifically the utility gaps within them that create tiny, repeating moments of friction that eventually make you want to throw your computer out of a window. Recently, that interest has led me to documentation. I'm building Differ, a tool that links knowledge base documents to the parts of a code repository they describe and flags them for review when the underlying code changes enough to matter.

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How did you come up with your logo, naming and branding? (Vision behind it.)

A day ago, I was talking to a friend about logo design.

TL;DR: how the Apple logo came to be and how it wasn t always the bitten apple we know today.

The first concept was actually Newton sitting under a tree.

What work would you never delegate to an AI agent?

AI is becoming better and better. For writing, coding, and research, doing everything manually already feels like wasted time.

But some work still needs a real person to take responsibility. Lawyers, accountants, and anyone who must review and sign documents for institutions. AI can prepare the work. Someone still has to stand behind it.

📆 Do founders get weekends, or is that a myth?

We always think we'll take Saturday off...

Then we remember:

users don't stop using the product
ideas don't stop coming
launches don't wait
neither do bugs

Curious how everyone else handles it.

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