Product update: 3/7/2022 edition

celebrate every little milestone :)

Hello everyone! Marshall here and hope you all had a great weekend. This past week HackerPen has made great progress, largely thanks to the participation from the community!

Within 2 months of launching HackerPen has more than 200 users on the platform (40+ users signed up the last week alone)! I’m super grateful for all the support from the community, and I am excited to keep iterating on this product with the community.

In this post we will talk about:

recap on the open product design

Last Saturday we had our first-ever open product design session and we are humbled to have learned so much from the community! We discussed ways to improve the product, and how the product can help bring many gaps we experience in technical interviews.

If you are interested in learning more, Atith has put together public notes from the session.

Our commitment going forward:

feature updates

Based on community feedback, we made two improvements on the platform:

System Design Components

Now each drawing board comes with a set of default icons that helps with system design questions. This helps cut down the unnecessary time of drawing and give time back for people to communicate their design thinking.

design system components update

Interview Cancellation

We embed the cancellation link in the emails. This made it more obvious to users when they want to cancel an interview and give time back to the other party.

more apparent cancel interview flow

Join our community ❤️

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