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RetroSoftware

Who uses, recommends or left Retro, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jenny Wen
Head of design for Claude at Anthropic; previously director of design at Figma, where she led the FigJam and Slides teams.
loved

for folks who don't know about Retro, it's sort of like this small community photo sharing app in which you can only share um photos from each week from a given week as opposed to like all time. Um, and it basically has like none of the social media stuff. Like you can't really see like counts. It's not there's no ads, etc. Um, but one really nice thing is now that I've been using it for 2 years, I can now look back at each year and see like, oh yeah, this week two years ago I was doing this and it's become this really special way to like live through each week of my life

Lenny's Podcast, "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", lightning round, favourite recently discovered product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). The photo-sharing app.

2026-03-01·youtube.com ↗

Dylan Field
Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012.
lovedtheir own

a product that I love and I'm an investor in. So, full disclosure, you know, love it so much I invested uh, is retro. Really beautifully built product for a small group and friends, family, photo sharing. And just the way they've executed this is so well done. So if you're not using already, definitely check it out.

Lenny's Podcast, "Figma's CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat", lightning round, favourite product; his own spoken answer (YouTube captions). He discloses he is an investor in it.

2025-10-16·youtube.com ↗

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