rpastuszak's work is a consistent source of inspiration and fun. It's what I wanted the web to become.

It's neither a beta, nor an alpha, more Keanu than Hasselhoff. Hence, it's Ensō sigma!

It's great if you want to "think aloud but with your mouth shut". I wrote 7k words with it just thinking through a problem. The exact word count is meaningless of course -- my main point is that it was really easy to just sit and think with it, without editing myself. I used the Coffeeshop mode for a large chunk of that (plus some Aphex Twin)

Author here: https://enso.sonnet.io

Thanks for the feedback, most of my usual readers know about Ensō and it seems I forgot to leave my little bubble when writing this post!

This is an interesting one.

On one hand it’s hard to disagree with the statement “it should be clear what your product does in a single glance”. In fact there’s a whole meta that’s been developed around this, with well established common wisdom on how to structure your landing page to quickly frame value to prospective users, call them to action, etc.

On the other hand it’s kind of fun to stumble upon something and feel like you missed the beginning of the conversation, and to figure things out piece by piece based on context.

I was also confused when loading this website but it led me to trying the app and it was kind of fun.

Sometimes the most optimized, clearest path isn’t necessarily the preferable one.

Same. I even came to comments to see if anyone has actually written what this is. And, unfortunately, still little. Most people just comment "great stuff". After a few minutes I'm still to learn what this thing is and why does anyone care that it's in beta public.

But yet I lurked longer than many of other product pages I land on to think about what might be going on thanks to the nature of graphics and the non-standard non-bootstrap template approach.

Sometimes providing TLDR means you are providing a way for people to instantly ignore you without further thought. Maybe there is a desire to engage people who think.

Yeah the article is quite bad for the uninitiated but it seems that is how he talks to its own community. Looks like a text editor

Yeah had me confused, product link is <https://enso.sonnet.io/>. Apparently only for mac.

Not to be confused with Ensso, maker of fountain pens <https://www.ensso.com/>.