Builders don’t think in commits

Ask a designer what changed in the product last quarter and they won’t recite commit messages. They’ll describe a screen. The old empty state. The moment the onboarding felt heavy. We remember products the way we remember rooms — spatially, visually, in before-and-afters.

Every tool we have for memory is built for engineers. Git logs. Changelogs. PR descriptions. All text, all describing intent, none of them showing the thing.

The diff tells you what the code became. It never tells you what the product looked like.

Once agents made building 10× faster, this got worse, not better. More was shipped, faster, by more people — and the shared picture of what the product even is right now got blurrier. Speed without memory is just drift.

The recall handle

What I want is boring: a camera roll for prototypes. Every meaningful state, captured automatically, browsable like photos. Not to replace version control — to sit next to it and answer the question git can’t: what did it look like?

That’s the whole idea behind what I’m building. Less a tool, more a missing sense.