Introducing Fluid Mashups
one of my hobbies is announcing features requested before we launched the company.
the year was Summer 2024. Claude was just your crazy uncle and Kickstarter still had clout. our campaign attracted 1,000+ early adopters with compelling questions:
- what if i want to share my work?
- is it possible to remove the screen flicker?
- can i see fun stuff only after work hours?
- what if i want to split screen the display?
the final boss battle -- dynamic screen-splitting -- required flexible and responsive design elements. so we spent the last 3 years building a design system.
and these 8 static layouts have been good to us.
but it's time for something new: say hello to fluid mashups.
what are fluid mashups?
rather than conform plugins to Procrustean, 25-50% sections of your screen, you may now combine up to 322 different layouts on a 9-slot grid.
want a dashboard that's 2⁄3 weather, 1⁄3 upcoming appointments? no problem.
how about a central calendar, surrounded by photos and dates?
anything is possible with the new fluid mashup builder, available exclusively on TRMNL X and X-sized devices like reMarkable, Kobo Aura One, Boox Nova Air C, and Seeed E1003.
learn more
to see this in action, check out our latest Behind the Screens video where we build this:
to play with an early demo (no account required), go here.
