We use Sketch’s early history to show how an ecosystem can expand a product’s edges without making every feature part of the core. Users shared icon sets, interface kits, plugins, tutorials, meetups, and integrations; Sketch’s open file format and plugin architecture let developers build around user-owned files, while meetups and a Sketch-plugins mailing list helped the community grow. The practical framework is to distinguish universal workflows for the core from specific requests better served by extensions, supported by exportable data and documentation.

[Sketch Let the Community Build the Last Mile](<https://www.first1000.co/blog/sketch>)

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