The real plugins are the friends we make along the way
summary
Builds and ships FigJam widgets using the widget API and streams the code live, proving public coding holds accountability and teaches debugging under pressure. Shows a soundboard widget that keeps one sound per instance to simplify editing, a playable piano widget with mouse and keyboard input, and a Loom embed widget that later overlaps Figma’s built-in features. Gets approved into the beta, iterates with community code, and repeatedly gets stuck and unstuck on camera while the widgets actually work.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:29A Twitter post that changed my life
- 3:55Building a Soundboard widget
- 5:42Why Tru chooses to stream code in public
- 9:14The joy of building things for the sake of building
- 10:25Changing your mindset
- 11:10Building a Piano widget
- 12:30Building for brands and learning from the Figma community
- 14:41Step outside of your comfort zone
- 16:24Top takeaways from building Figma widgets
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