Chris Straw

Yeah, sounds great.

Yeah, I mean, everything comes back to D&D in the end.

Let's see.

Dragons.

Well, I mean, there's a lot of pressures on startups right now, and a large part of it is is related, of course, to things like like runway and funding and finding the right people on your team.

And so,

The place that we find ourselves is having some great early stage traction as a company and now looking at how we accelerate into that next step.

How do we hire the right team?

How do we find the right venture partner?

How do we keep making awesome software and growing the company in a way that's responsible in an environment of venture capital funding that has been completely bonkers for the last two years?

Yeah, exactly.

And you rally around patterns.

So patterns can be any solution to a commonly recurring problem.

So that can be a color system.

It can be a spacing system.

It can be all those styling elements that exist inside of Figma.

Or it can actually be bits of UI, things like buttons or cards or navigation.

And then what you can do in Knapsack is you can define what variables you can send to these things and create different variations.

The whole point of this is you should eliminate a bunch of wasteful rework.

Instead of maintaining hundreds of different possible buttons, maintain one bit of button code and one bit of button design, and then define a set of allowable variations from there.