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Stephen Haney

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Stephen Haney

@stephenhaney

ceo @paper · for the love of design

California

paper.design

Joined September 2010

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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Feb 24
Hello! Today we're releasing Paper Desktop Paper is now a canvas for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex. Any agent can read and write html to Paper. • push or pull from your codebase • pull real data from anywhere • less work, more design What will you ship? Sound on 🎶
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Feb 19, 2025
Good morning!! We thought the Apple liquid metal invite was so cool. How fun would it be if everyone could see their logo in liquid? So we made an app to let you make your logo in liquid. Just drag in your logo and see. Link inside the thread. We think you're gonna love it!
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Jan 22, 2025
Playing with the new Warp shader, coming to Paper Shaders next week
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Oct 15, 2025
Good morning!! Liquid Metal is our most popular effect in @paper. But it is not perfect. So today we're sharing Liquid Metal v2. Perfected. Upload your logo and see, now with perfect edges, new sliders, and video export. Cannot wait to see what you make, link in the thread
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Sep 9, 2025
Good morning!! We are so excited to announce that @paper is open for sign ups today. And we thought it'd be fun if everyone could see their logo like the Apple heat map invite. So you can just upload your logo and see it. Link in the thread. We think you're gonna love it!
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Feb 14, 2025
border shader is going hard already
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Feb 25, 2025
Today @paper is excited to announce: • Our $4.2M seed, led by @Accel with @basecasevc and incredible angels to build the next-gen design tool • A new site: paper.design • We are hiring! Wake up every day and build quality tools for creatives. See the site for
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Feb 19, 2025
Replying to @stephenhaney
Make your logo in liquid metal: liquid.paper.design Can't wait to see what you make. It's all open source too!
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Jul 22, 2024
Replying to @flyosity
have you ever tried search in apple music desktop? hope you have some free time
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Dec 11, 2022
Trying NOT to spend the next 10 hours iterating on this attack animation . . . It's just a prototype, it's just a prototype
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Jun 11, 2025
Big step: we're designing Paper in Paper now. There are many features left to build but the progress is coming fast. Here's a quick capture of our designs for image gen and saved styles. Designed in @paper. Sending more invites next week!
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Feb 11, 2025
Just published the new "god rays" shader to the Paper Shaders npm can't wait to see what you make with it install instructions in the thread
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Nov 5, 2025
Announcing the all new Fluted Glass shader in @paper You can make powerful images like these in seconds (click to zoom in!). The team worked hard for perfect quality. Available today in Paper for free. I'll post a tutorial video in this thread
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Stephen Haney
@stephenhaney
Sep 19, 2025
Paper and Tailwind just make so much sense together. So we're partnering to make design to code (and back to design!) easier than ever before
Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Sep 19, 2025
I'm so excited about what @paper is building, so we're joining their journey as investors and partners to do whatever we can to help make Paper the absolute best design tool in the world for modern web teams. A free-form design tool built around the DOM has so much potential to
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