I have been using chakra ui in production with my company’s latest app. One of the driving factors for the decision was the library’s strong focus on a11y. It’s also just a really well designed component kit with apis and component composition that struck me as very intuitive.
I hope to see it gain more traction moving forward!
Totally agreed. The author isn’t wrong about the workflow issues around svgs, but icons are not usually animated for good reason.
The human eye is very sensitive to motion. It can be a fun thing to add to loading screens (the gusto pig, for example), but icons are designed to live on a page for a long time and only take our attention when we are actively looking for them. Motion is not good for this purpose.
You are right, and even doctors learn most of their practice on the job. It makes you wonder about the value of 4-year medical school relative to the high cost.
Status definitely played a part. Because the methods for determining creditworthiness were less sophisticated at the time, the bar to clear was high, and being approved for the card signaled status, wealth, and trustworthiness.
In addition to some of the card’s unique features mentioned by other posters, being able flaunt a status symbol to friends, customers, and business associates played no small part in the success of the card.
Electronic Value Exchange (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781849961387) is a great book on the history of card payments. Well researched and very thorough. I’m told its commonly recommended internally at Stripe.
Luck matters a lot, as with anything in life. But the better you are, the less it matters.
If you are some super precocious young scientist who had already developed a novel drug, Stanford would be calling you.
If you show investors a killer product and early traction, it doesn’t really matter who you are, they will be knocking on your door.
Now obviously its not easy to do either one of those things. And most of us are somewhere underneath those very high bars, so luck does matter. Getting into a good undergrad, getting into YC. I won’t lie. In my experience, these things have helped me immensely. But optimizing for them is like studying for the test, not for actual learning.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, worrying about luck, Stanford, YC is all misguided effort. Start a business, succeed, fail, learn, start again. This is what will actually get you closer to your goal. This is what will get you good enough so that the whims of luck won’t make or break you.
Rather than build your idea, which you say requires a lot of money, prove that people want to pay for it. You CAN do this without building the idea.
This will force you to get out there, actually talk to potential customers, and sell it. This is one of the hard parts of executing on an idea.
I know one entrepreneur in your boat who recently cold outbounded with a PowerPoint and some design mockups, and managed to get a number of LOIs signed from buyers in his target market. That proved to investors that 1) people wanted it, and 2) he could sell it. He raised a non-trivial sum from a known VC firm.