Design and media

All 16

Alphabetical. Checked on 2026-09-04; anything that did not answer says so.

• APITemplate.io
  Generates PDFs and images from reusable templates over an API, so document rendering is not something you build.
  Templating as a service, because PDF generation is nobody's core work.
• Bytescale
  File storage with image and video processing on the delivery path, so transforms are URL parameters.
  The transform is a query string.
• Chakra UI
  A React component system with accessibility and theming built into the primitives rather than layered on.
  Accessible by construction, not by audit.
• Cloudinary
  Media storage with transformation and delivery, the long-standing default for images that must exist at twelve sizes.
  The resize pipeline you did not have to write.
• Dyte
  Real-time audio and video as a toolkit, so live features do not require running media infrastructure.
  Video calling without meeting WebRTC.
• Figma
  The design tool that moved interface work into the browser and made multiplayer editing the default.
  Killed the design file as a thing you email.
• Flatfile
  Handles the customer data import: extraction, mapping, validation and the mess in the spreadsheet they sent.
  Owns the worst part of onboarding.
• ImageKit
  Real-time image and video optimisation with a digital asset manager attached.
  Delivery and library in one product.
• imgix
  Image processing and delivery driven by URL parameters, one of the earliest to work this way.
  Made the URL the image editor.
• Material UI
  The React component library that put a complete design system within reach of any project, now themeable beyond Material Design.
  The default answer for a decade of React projects.
• Mux
  Video infrastructure: encoding, delivery and analytics behind an API, built by people from the streaming industry.
  Video that works without hiring a video team.
• Penpot
  Open-source design software built on web standards, so files are open formats rather than a vendor's binary.
  The design tool you can self-host.
• Pintura
  A JavaScript image editor that embeds into any stack, for cropping and editing inside your own product.
  The editor you were going to build badly.
• Radix UI
  Unstyled, accessible React primitives. Provides behaviour and leaves appearance entirely to you.
  Ships the hard part and none of the opinions.
• Storybook
  Builds and documents UI components in isolation, which turned the component library into a real artefact.
  Made the component the unit of front-end work.
• Tailwind CSS
  Utility classes instead of stylesheets. Divided the front-end world and then won most of it.
  Everyone objected, then adopted it.

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