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Building Figma Slides with Noah Finer and Jonathan Kaufman
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How do you take a new product idea, and turn it into a successful product? Figma Slides started as a hackathon project a year and a half ago – and today it’s a full-on product, with more than 4.5M slide decks created by users. I’m joined by two founding engineers on this project: Jonathan Kaufman and Noah Finer.
In our chat, Jonathan and Noah pull back the curtain on what it took to build Figma…
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