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James Daly
@jamesdaly.bsky.social
Creating in Sydney 🏝️ https://jamesdaly.me/

💻 Building drawkit.com and milestones.so. Also 🎨 jamesdaly.art and 🎵 jamesdaly.music
Full YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-...

This week's Milestones video features Camille, co-founder of Rosie Lou, a sustainable greeting card and stationary company!

She shares everything from product research, suppliers, first customers, first markets, and loads more 👀
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I'm thinking of sharing regular in-progress design work each week from my work at Relevance AI 🤓 This week projects:
- Queuing messages in the chat app
- A nice visual landing for the Slides agent
- Adding integrations to the chat app, with a fun animated Gameboy cartridge
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Lots of progress on @UseDrawKit over the last 2 weeks 🤓

User auth, Supabase, Render, Directus, dashboard page, and some fun extra things.

Check it out: www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This week's @milestones_so interview is with Cai, founder of Soy Street. We talk about her journey from lawyer to a full-time fashion illustrator, working with brands like Hermès, BVLGARI, Prada, Dior, and so many more 🖌️

Full video: youtu.be/Oj34FkS5Vgw...
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
.@reweb_so is one of the coolest design/dev tools I've seen recently, combining Cursor, Webflow, Tailwind, Figma, & more

Last year I talked with co-founder @mattiapomelli about his journey building it: challenges, successes, and future plans

🎥 Full vid: youtu.be/AkKHI5ikvew...
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Setting a Cursor rule to swap any instance of "I can see the issue now!" to "lemme jus try something wild real quick"
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Instagram finally broke out of their 3 column, small width desktop layout!
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
For everyone craving a slop-free, ad-free, influencer-free, algorithm-free social network, just reminding that @retrodotapp is wonderful!
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here's this week's DrawKit update! Finally spent time designing 🕺

🔗 The post: www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Here's my conversation with the very inspiring Riniapple from last year 🥳 We talk YouTube, illustration, creating webcomics, and the relationship between creative expression and the comic/publishing industry.

🎥 Full video here: youtu.be/tOksJINwwqw...
October 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The AI apps I'm using daily:
- Granola
- Wispr Flow
- Cursor

Importantly, they all extend what I can already do. They're like the align tools in Figma; I could do it manually, but these speed up existing ability.
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I wish iPhones had an option to lock the screen.

I'm tired of accidentally skipping podcasts/dismissing notifications/hanging up on someone/blasting the volume whenever I grab my phone out of my pocket.

Here's a rough idea I came up with that could work.
October 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by James Daly
When I was a kid, I saw diversity all over the media I consumed because we all understood it was a good thing. Now suddenly any display of diversity is considered dangerous. Wonder why.
October 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Here's this week's DrawKit progress update. It was a bit of a waste of a week, due to some crazy bandwidth problems 🥲

www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I think the most important question we’ll need to ask ourselves as builders in the new AI age is no longer "is it possible for me to build this?" and instead "is it responsible for me to build this?"

We're squarely in the "...they didn't stop to think if they should” era.
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I have beheld the orange telephone with mine own eyes, and I find it pleasing.
October 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
One of the most underrated things about @linear is they make it very hard to stuff up. The amount of times I've accidentally closed something or my page has refreshed, while writing a super long comment/ticket, only to find it waiting safely for me when I return is incredible 👏
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
@antoineminoux.bsky.social is an incredibly talented founder, building both getfernand.com/ and improvmx.com/ while working at Yelp. We chatted about his process behind building ImprovMX, the delight he aims for with Fernand, and so much more in the new Milestones video.

Link below 👇
September 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Ooh DJI getting in on the tiny magnetic camera market 👀 this is very tempting...
September 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I had a very productive week last week 🥳 Here's stuff I got done:

✍️ DrawKit: new company update weekly blog post

🎥 Milestones: new YouTube video

🎥 Painting: new YouTube video

Details & links in the thread 👇
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay...I think we're looking okay for Webflow bandwidth management and costs 🫠 The next 24 hours should tell. Then finally back to building
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Currently in Webflow bandwidth cost hell please pray for me
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Woah, Poke has the wildest onboarding I've ever seen
September 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The main reason I want a bright orange iPhone
September 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM