Yesterday, I finally got the Shapes release on my reMarkable Paper Pro. It’s a nice feature. But what’s more interesting is how it came to be.
A user on the reMarkable sub-reddit posted a feature request for Shapes in reMarkable. For the next 46 days, pretty much without skipping a single day, they posted about drawing a circle. It sort of became a thing on that sub.
I followed this everyday. The first few days, it seemed unnecessary and even mildly annoying. However, a couple of weeks in, I noticed more and more people joining in the discussion and I started to see the value and liked how the community was coming along.
The user slowly got recognized as the Circle Guy.
🎉 46 days later, reMarkable shipped a beta including the Shapes feature!
They actually listened to the community and shipped the feature. The fact that they shipped the beta in 46 days is amazing. They included a bunch of other features, but this one in particular is something that stemmed out of the community. This shows the power of community and how rM did a fabulous job at listening to the community.
reMarkable added a nice touch by sort of mentioning the Circle Guy‘s daily template in their release notes.
The Circle Guy then posted their last post about the feature on Day 47.
The mods of the sub even added Circle Guy to the mod team and gave him a custom flair.
Communities are awesome <3.
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