Kosshi
A simple, fast outliner
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I dropped the contact form and put up my email
#KosshiI recently changed how people contact me, from a form to just my email address. It started with a small thing that had been bugging me. People come in through a form, but I reply by email. Once someone writes through the form and we move to email, the next time they want to reach me, they're not sure which one to use. The form again? Or just email me? Eith
Read more →I started a newsletter for Kosshi
#Kosshi#NewsletterA while back I wrote that feedback for Kosshi had started pouring in over email. That hasn't let up, and I've been living in my inbox ever since. The thing that kept bugging me was simple. I can reply to people one by one, but I had no way to tell everyone using Kosshi, "hey, this is changing." I keep a release-notes page, and I post the occasional "just s
Read more →Kosshi feedback has been pouring in lately
#KosshiLately, the feedback coming in through Kosshi's contact form has been getting a bit wild. As I mentioned in an earlier post, hardly anyone outside Japan was using Kosshi, so when I put it on Product Hunt my expectations were honestly pretty light, something like "maybe the numbers will tick up a little." Then this week, a longtime overseas outliner user, m
Read more →Showed a mini Sankome at Design Festa 63
#Ohaco#SankomeAt Design Festa 63 on May 23rd and 24th (a big indie art and craft fair in Tokyo), Naoyoshi let me place a mini Sankome at her booth. It was printed with Ohaco, the 3D builder I'm working on. Most of the character-and-merch side of Shirokuma, including the brand icon itself, has been made by my wife Naoyoshi. Lately she posts the goods-side things on the SH
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Popular posts
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Generating App Store screenshots in nine languages with Remotion
Kosshi barely got downloaded outside Japan, and when I looked into it, it was hardly showing up in any store at all. So I rebuilt its App Store screenshots, nine languages' worth, from code, with Remotion.
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Kosshi feedback has been pouring in lately
Lately, the feedback coming in through Kosshi's contact form has been getting a bit wild. An overseas blog and a thread on outlinersoftware.com brought in a wave of new users, and it became clear that right now isn't the phase to spread it further, but the phase to fix things.
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Kosshi took me four years to ship
The app I quit my job to build sat in my head for four years before I finally shipped it.
Adding Japanese to Kosshi turned into nine languages
When I added a Japanese UI to my own app, it felt like a more visible bump in daily use than any of the small fixes I'd been making recently. My weakness in English may, oddly enough, have ended up working in my favor.
Putting Kosshi on Product Hunt turned out pretty well
Barely anyone outside Japan was using Kosshi. I put it on Product Hunt as a first step toward reaching beyond Japan, and the response turned out better than I'd expected.
The Bear Who Couldn't Make: A Picture Book
Naoyoshi and I made a picture book about a bear who couldn't make anything anymore, and what brought him back to making.
Original Goods
Physical goods I make with my wife. Latest on X SHIROKUMA.
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