Tools & Craft

The Verso blog

Notes on the craft of tools, the shape of good software, and how we build Verso.

Why everything is a block

The single idea the whole product is built on — and why we keep resisting the urge to add a hundred special cases.

The best way to show someone what a tool can do is to hand them a working example they can make their own in one click.

Slash-to-insert lives or dies on details you'd never notice if they were right — and can't stop noticing when they're wrong.

A pricing page is a values statement. Here's the line we drew, and the reasoning behind it.

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