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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
Instagram finally broke out of their 3 column, small width desktop layout!
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 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
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
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
@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
The main reason I want a bright orange iPhone
September 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hahah exactly my dude, this setting doesn't exist in "display settings". You've hit the same problem I have with their chaotic organisation, and you're left with the question of what to search and how to find something
August 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Nope
August 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Really good advice I saw somewhere this week (sorry I can’t remember the original source!):

Add Face ID unlock to any app that receives 2FA codes, eg Mail and iMessage. It’s an extra layer of security if someone manages to unlock your phone 🤓
July 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
🫠
June 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Looks like Instagram have removed the option to “snooze” suggested posts, despite their support page saying it’s still there 😓 getting worse and worse
May 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I've been so happy with where my painting practice is at after the last few years of learning. Here are some recent pieces 😄

I put them all here if you'd like to follow along: www.instagram.com/jamesdaly_art
March 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I very much would love an awesome fun mini PC like this, but to still use macOS, and it seems so complicated to set that up 🥲
March 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Today's work log:
- Filmed 2 @milestones.so YouTube videos
- Edited 1 of the videos, posting tomorrow
- Sent this month's @milestones.so newsletter (preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webv...)
- New guest outreach
- Painting progress (attached)
- Testing out @dominiksumer.com's new app 🥳
March 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New case study on Milestones with @dmytrokrasun.com 🥳

milestones.so/case-study/s...

We discussed
- How he got his first customers
- Stress and mental health
- Mistakes with his business
- Why he doesn't try and beat competitors
- Growth tactics

and much more. Thanks Dmytro, it was great to chat!
February 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I just pushed live the new responsive nav and responsive settings on Milestones 🥳 Let me know if you see any weird behaviour
January 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Currently making the settings modal on Milestones responsive, instead of the current bad mobile-only screen.

This'll be much better! Should be finished in the next day or so

Here's an in-progress shot – challenging getting a side-panel nav to work, but I think this works
January 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM