When it comes to design founder stories, Raphael Schaad’s is one of the best. So this episode is the first-ever telling of how Raphael designed and built Cron (which became Notion Calendar). We talk about:
- Sketching on paper vs. sketching in code
- Why shipping quality software is like camping
- How Raphael identified the MVP of the problem
- What it was like building Cron in YC during COVID
- Why you should design dialogues as first-class citizens
- Why Raphael didn’t invest much in the Cron landing page
- The differences between a design toolkit and a design system
- a lot more lessons from a successful first-time design founder
