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Utku Can
@utku · Product @MOO @OffsetHQ
Thanks @wanghq. I think it was Victor Hugo who said you can't fight an idea whose time has come. Perhaps this is one such idea.
I think your collection is really interesting, mainly because the language is very much around hackers, startups and building things.
In terms of where Stacks differs, I would like us to build a product that's more accessible to a… See more
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Hello! Tom and I were the product leads on Stacks. It's the first product from Offset, the digital studio at MOO. Here's a short blog post: https://medium.com/offset-hq/int...
Making Stacks is invite only at the moment. Want to try it out? Request one on the site, and ping me! I'll send one your way.
Happy to answer any questions too.
Thanks @wanghq. I think it was Victor Hugo who said you can't fight an idea whose time has come. Perhaps this is one such idea.
I think your collection is really interesting, mainly because the language is very much around hackers, startups and building things.
In terms of where Stacks differs, I would like us to build a product that's more accessible to a… See more
James Greig
@j_greig · Digital designer and writer
Curious to know why there isn't a direct link out for each item in a stack? (I like to open a bunch of links from a page into new tabs and then flick through them)
I thought it might be interesting to show the first ever cut of Stacks. Here are the first three screens that I put together: http://cl.ly/aKgb
The original idea was that everyone would have a single stack, and we'd ask everyone at least three default questions, such as who do you bank with, or which airline you travel with the most.
We quickly realised ho… See more
This was followed by a second iteration. Here's another peek:
http://cl.ly/aKVb
http://cl.ly/aLb2
This cut feels like the first time it clicked, and the idea for the stack you build crystallised. This is also when we introduced tags, but you'll notice they are on the tools; and not on the Stacks. More on this in a bit.