Instacalc Blog

Insights on building, calculating, and thinking with numbers

October 8, 2025

Speed creates things

Faster means less friction.

It's trite but I'm rediscovering the imporance of speed. All things being equal, you increase the speed of iteration/feedback, you increase your motivation to do more.

Having a live design editor where I can make a change, see it instantly, ask AI to make a new feature, toggle it off... just feels smooth. I'm designing in hours what took me weeks of dreaded procrastination.

Instacalc, after 5+ years of a similar design, can breathe a bit better.

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