AUSTIN CONNELLY / WORK
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§ 02 · WORK2019 → 2024SF / NY

A working ledger of things I’ve built, wound-down, or would do differently — with the lessons left in the margins. Updated when something meaningful comes to an end.

§ 012024

Field Guide

Replaced four internal wikis with a single writing surface. Fifteen teams, 2,400 entries and counting.

Lead FE·Squarespaceshipped
§ 022023

Wavelength

Two years of nights trying to build Git for Logic Pro projects. Shipped, grew to 400 paying users, then ran into a licensing wall I couldn't negotiate around.

Founder · FE·Independentarchived
§ 032022

Quiet Type

The old font picker had 14 fields. The new one has three. Ships in every new template since Q3 '22.

IC · FE·Squarespaceshipped
§ 042021

Ledger

Pandemic project — ninety beta users at $8/mo. Learned people who hate bookkeeping hate paying for it too. The onboarding flow still lives in my back pocket.

Founder · FE·Independentarchived
§ 052020

Margin Notes

Annotation layer on top of internal design-system docs. It worked; it was also the wrong solve. Still the reason I think about ghost-empty-states weekly.

IC · FE·Squarespaceinternal
§ 062019

Paper UI

A side-project design system I built before I knew what a design system was. Every token wrong. Every component broke at 767px. The reason I got hired.

IC · FE·Pre-Squarespacearchived