Note on building Spaceduck
Why are webuilding Spaceduck
On a mission to create an ecosystem of tools that enables anyone to gain deep understanding and insight into complex topics.
What we're building
Humans don't think like machines. We don't organize our thoughts in hierarchical folder structures; instead, we think in patterns, memories, and connections. We recall information by linking it to other data points. Yet, our brains have limited capacity for short-term and long-term memory, and we can't read other people's minds.
Imagine a workspace where every thought, idea, and project finds a home—a centralized, intelligently connected digital library that encompasses everything you care about. Our goal is to establish Spaceduck as the ultimate digital workspace for knowledge workers, creators, and innovators, serving as the essential foundation for all ideas, research, and projects.
We aim to break away from today's fragmented tools and folder structures to create something truly revolutionary. Spaceduck is designed for those who prefer to draw, write, build, and create rather than get lost in unmaintainable systems and endless folders. For true creators and innovators, Spaceduck offers a streamlined, intuitive platform that lets you focus on what you do best.
Simply put, we're building the world's best "Thinking and Research Tool".
Story behind the name and the company
"Spaceduck" stands for "Space" and "a duck". This loosely translates to a duck in space. Now, that's not a very catchy brand name, is it? It wasn't intended to be; we simply could not get a trademark for our original name, "Polaris" (North Star), and our original original name, "DoubleSteady," was so stupid that nobody could take it seriously, except for Daniel, one of the Co-Founders who came up with that stupid name in the first place. I digress. But hey, "Spaceduck" is also stupid, so stupid in fact that you will not cannot forget it.
We aim to make products that we want to use, and hopefully, other like-minded people like you would also like to use them. At the core of what we do is a deep love of product design, followed by our core values, experiences, and opinions that we have gained through our years of experience. In every decision we make, we follow our own tastes and preferences. We build products that we would gladly pay to use. As a matter of fact, we do; we pay for our products, even though the money comes back to the company and then gets paid to us and our staff as salary, and piece of sh*t Stripe takes their fees, but we still pay for it.
Our target audience is creatives and visual people; we don't do market analysis for guidance. We just make products the way we believe they should be, technically and aesthetically, hoping our vision resonates with a small group of aficionados.
Peace out,
Ari (the other (cooler) Co-Founder)
Core values
- Beauty through restraint is the foundation of our design philosophy
- Strive for permanence through high-quality design and engineering
- Build products that we would gladly pay to use
Design notes
Spaceduck is our product playground. We have tremendous fun losing ourselves in the tiny details that make a great product. To say we're obsessed is probably an understatement.
We feel that this level of attention to detail distinguishes our products and makes them worthwhile.
Part of the fun is sharing this obsession with other aficionados. And so, this section of the website is dedicated to design notes. A series of short articles in which we explain our reasoning behind the big and the small design choices we faced.
