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InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.

I've often thought about how tricky/silly it must be to work in some domains using tools of other domains.

For example, I work with cartographic data and the darn mathies and programmers stole all our words. So I end up performing a map on a Map of maps. Or managing vector of vector layers. Naming is hard but this is ridiculous.

Using mockup tools to make mockup tools probably has its own set of ridiculous collisions.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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In my 9 years of making mobile apps, I've never hated a tool more than I've hated InVision. But congrats to the team on this pick up I suppose.

As a general rule, these kinds of comments are not helpful and don't add to the discussion in any way. As the other respondent said, if you don't like the product, please let us know why! I've used InVision and have always liked it, but I've really only used it from a "designers sent me an InVision deck to build", so I'm genuinely interested in how other stakeholders may find problems with it.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.

It just looks like a remote desktop to localhost so you get one of those "mirrors to infinity" views.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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$100M ARR and fully remote!

This is definitely worth highlighting. Why so many businesses are still deluding themselves into thinking that work is better done when cramming people into an office is beyond me. Remote work is still the minority. My hypothesis is that it's actually just covert ego/power/distrust at play because founders and executives like to be able to say they have an office, and they like to see their employees "working." This mostly only applies to "new" businesses though (i.e. founded in the last 5-10 years); older businesses have an excuse because they're just doing what they already know.

In any case, huge respect to InVision for being one of the leaders in advocating remote work.

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