Poindexter's Café

Manufacturing Better Software - Part 1

Windows default zooming tool is very laggy. It's use case is impractical, has a lot of friction when user want to use it. When ever it comes to my mind about zooming tool all I can imagine is that, no matter where you are, you'll always be able to pull a lever and use it on the go. Also it would be nice to have the ability where you can draw/annotate.

There are some thind-party software that gives you this kind of ability but they also have some amount of friction in it and most of them are paid. Back in the day on Twitch I watched "Tsoding" to build such software but he was developing it for linux. Since than I always wanted to build such simple but efficient software like that. Hence the idea of Zink was born.

My initial thought was that it will be a user-mode application that can be triggered at any moment and will give user the super power to zoom in/out, pan around and make sketches in the current scope.

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