Raphael Salaja

the web has been quiet for a while. for the past few months i've been building something to fix that. declarative audio for the web. describe a sound as plain data, play it with one call. → audio.raphaelsalaja.com

@itshassco @lochieaxon @mbarvian @Jakubantalik @emilkowalski @joshpuckett @benjitaylor @jakubkrehel @raffichill @JaceThings 🫡

I think the product community has never peaked like this before I would like to randomly mention some people and their products/tools/sites @raphaelsalaja, @lochieaxon, @mbarvian @Jakubantalik, @emilkowalski, @joshpuckett, @benjitaylor, @jakubkrehel, @raffichill, @JaceThings audio.raphaelsalaja.com torph.lochie.me number-flow.barvian.me transitions.dev emilkowal.ski joshpuckett.me/dialkit benji.org jakub.kr/skills userinterface.wiki spottedinprod.com corne.rs/playground Thank you guys!

the web has been quiet for a while. for the past few months i've been building something to fix that. declarative audio for the web. describe a sound as plain data, play it with one call. → audio.raphaelsalaja.com

Huge milestone for the team. Excited for the future.

@AnaArsonist i have a whole article on this that i need to publish. there's so many things people don't use or know about inter or using fonts in general that would really help them.

For those of you who missed the memo: If you're still using Inter from Google Fonts, you're not getting the real thing. Grab Inter straight from the source. Better rendering, more features, the way it's meant to be used. You'll notice the difference.

@ayushswrites @BatteryVentures @tobi @arashf Big congrats to the team, excited for the future.

Today, we're announcing a $60M Series B led by @BatteryVentures, bringing our total funding to $85M in just under a year. Also joining the round are founders and operators who’ve built generational companies of the last two decades – @tobi (CEO, Shopify), @arashf (Dropbox), @chughesjohnson (Stripe), and more. The round came together in 6 days. Here's why. Every major category in enterprise software is seeing multiple AI-native challengers. CRM, ERP, ITSM – all being rebuilt from scratch by a new generation of companies applying AI to solve persistent problems we couldn’t before. Employee Management (also known as HCM) is the exception. It’s the last frontier, and we believe the most important one. The operating layer to manage people, run payroll, benefits, compliance, and IT, for every company in the world, is still built on architecture that predates AI by decades. This fundraise is the story of how Warp is changing that. The average Warp customer is growing 5x faster than their peers, with 1/10th of the HR and admin overhead. We’re seeing a massive shift happening in how the best companies run their people operations. From the fastest-growing AI-startups to massive public companies, the winning teams are running lean: HR, finance, and ops generalists who automate as much as possible, and use their time instead for strategic work that AI can’t automate. Warp is the platform of choice for ambitious companies operating at this new pace. Legacy HCMs help humans track the work. Warp uses AI to proactively complete the work. Workday was built for the last era. We're building for the next one. And it’s working. We've – - Doubled ARR in Q1 - On track to $2B+ payroll volume this year - Signed enterprise customers with thousands of employees - Launched entire product lines back-to-back: Warp benefits brokerage and Warp Fabric (our AI-native IT automation suite built in-house). A few thank-yous: 1. Our customers, the fastest-growing companies in the world, who trust us with their most critical systems. We wouldn't be here without you. 2. Our team - 50+ people in NYC who've built this platform, taken on the hardest problems in business-critical software. We're just getting started. 3. Our investors doubling down in this round, and some of our earliest believers – @sound_ventures_ (@aplusk, @epsteineffie), @PeakXV, (@arnavsahu341), @harjtaggar at @ycombinator, @balajis, @kevinhartz, @kvogt, @amasad, @HOFCapital (@myfady), @colinevans (@OpenAI) We're here to arm ambitious American companies with Workday-grade power, but with the usability and delight of an Apple product. With this new funding, we plan to fund deeper AI agents, tax and compliance infrastructure, expand our product suite, and support even closely our fast-growing customers. Come join us.

seeing a lot of bookmarking apps recently. none really solve the main issue, which is becoming an invisible layer of your daily browsing. luckily ive been building something that solves this. it already works with arena, cosmos, instagram, x (twitter), youtube, reddit, threads and tik tok. and its completely replaced all apps for me. everything synced, local, with no interruptions and soon open source. if you’re interested let me know.

@MaximeHeckel beautiful

blob tracking effect built with WebGPU had fun playing with motion-based effects alongside sound over the past few weeks :) r3f.maximeheckel.com/blob-tracking-2

@JaceThings the tiny details that make everything feel right

A fun thing @raphaelsalaja taught me: you can set macOS's Now Playing state to anything you'd like while playing audio, directly on the web.

@MaximeHeckel can't wait

✍️ Ready to share with you my learnings on Atmospheric Scattering this coming Tuesday Expect many beautiful real-time renders of the sky, sunsets, and planets

@jvrsanch @benjitaylor @raunofreiberg remove the font weight variation in favour for a lighter color for inactive states. on hover it changes color + adds the background color, i’d also speed up the background color change as well.

Do not animate hover states for list items, feels clunky 🙏 pls fix it @benjitaylor @raunofreiberg accurately replied 'noooo'

@batukrskl thanks 🫡

I am using Raphael's library on my portfolio website. Appreciate Raphael!

@uxkosta nice work man!

s/o to @raphaelsalaja and his audio library

adding sounds to animations makes them just a tad bit more tactile and memorable.

@heystefan_ coming this week

@raphaelsalaja great work! one suggestion, something you'll find in game uis: if a sound is repeating a lot (eg. the slider component) it should have small pitch variability to make it more interesting.

@solidoxx will add these.

@raphaelsalaja It would be great to have a little play button for the multiple examples throughout the documentation.

@moeamaya thanks moe 🫡

@raphaelsalaja Incredible Raphael! The docs and example sounds are dialed.

@marcofyi thanks marco, appreciate it. let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see or add, i hope to turn this into the most complete library for sound generation on the web!

sound in software is one of the most overlooked yet delightful details when used right as someone who’s spent days adding custom sounds to marco.fyi i’m excited to try this

web-kits/audio is entirely open source, end to end. if you want to dig in or contribute, the door's open. github.com/raphaelsalaja/…

@Neesh774 🫡

@raphaelsalaja Sooo sick

@radcraftor thanks rad!

@raphaelsalaja amazing work as always