# When I built @kotn’s first store 12 years ago

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When I built @kotn’s first store 12 years ago, I knew how to code and it still took me two weeks just to get to something OK, years to get to something I liked\.

We built the tool I wish I had back then\. Here’s Canvas\.

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- Source published: 2026\-10\-01T14:00:40\.000Z
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