Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by abdullahkhalids » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

emacs

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by sdsk8 » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

signoftimes wrote: post #2

There a lot of great software; but first thing that came to my mind immediately was Redis. From documentation and SDKs to the focus and self-imposed constraints, I love pretty much everything about it.

This is my choice too, i love everything about redis!

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by swalsh » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

signoftimes wrote: post #2

There a lot of great software; but first thing that came to my mind immediately was Redis. From documentation and SDKs to the focus and self-imposed constraints, I love pretty much everything about it.

I took a peek under the covers a while ago, and the bit that really stood out to me was the networking code. It's hard to do right.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by uvesten » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

One of the earlier versions of iMovie. I had zero knowledge of movie editing when opening it for the first time, and managed to produce a reasonably well edited short movie in about two hours. Magic.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by fancyPantsZero » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:28 PM UTC

Ableton Live.

The way the UI design packs tons of control into a simple, flat interface. The way everything happens in realtime. The way everything can be routed and automated and chained.

Even though I'm a shitty musician, I love this program so much.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by patriot_prayer » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:28 PM UTC

Robinhood Onboarding

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by dugluak » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:29 PM UTC

VueJs - from 0 to a basic working application literally in 2 minutes. Same with older versions of AngularJS, but not sure whatsup with the new Angular JS though (simply called as Angular) it is not easy to get up and started.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by superasn » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:30 PM UTC

Paint shop pro version 5.0 (by Jasc). I don't know when it was made but it still sits on my desktop till today and is more useful and handy than any image editing software I've used.

It can handle almost all image formats, loads up in less than 1s and everything is so fast and breezy. The Ui is super intuitive that I've never had to once search for help.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by prolikewh0a » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:30 PM UTC

Pocket Casts

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by dagoat » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 7:32 PM UTC

Ambiguous question but off the top of my head: SendGrid, Stripe, Heroku, GitHub, Redis