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FeaturedEngineeringMay 18, 2025 8 min

How we cut viewer first-paint to 90ms (and why it mattered for retention)

Document viewers are a deceptively hard performance problem. They have to load fast, render PDFs reliably, and stay snappy on bad networks. Here's the work that took us from 480ms first paint to 90ms.

by Devon Hart

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PlaybookMay 8, 2025

The investor update that actually gets read

We analyzed 4,200 investor updates sent on Dataroom. The ones that got replies share five things in common.

9 min

FoundersMay 1, 2025

Why we charge $9.99 (and never a cent more)

Pricing pages are a tax on attention. Ours is one paragraph and one number. Here's the math behind that choice.

5 min

DesignApr 24, 2025

Designing a viewer that doesn't feel like 2014

Document viewers have looked the same for fifteen years. Here's what we changed, and why most of it's about restraint, not features.

11 min

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