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The There There Blog

Notes from the team building a better helpdesk.

Product updates, engineering deep dives, and what we're learning about support.

Designing the waiting until feature

Designing the waiting until feature

Here’s the small design journey that got us there, from hardcoded presets to a free-form field that understands “tomorrow at 9am.”

Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten · Jun 18, 2026 · 4 min read
A sidebar that gets out of the way

A sidebar that gets out of the way

The ticket view sidebar is one of the most important parts of our app. We've sweated the details to make it look really nice.

Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten · Jun 8, 2026 · 1 min read
A "Thank You" shouldn't reopen a ticket

A "Thank You" shouldn't reopen a ticket

A closed ticket gets a "thanks" and most helpdesks drag it back open. Here is the layered, fail-safe way There There decides to leave it closed.

Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten · May 30, 2026 · 4 min read
The stack behind There There

The stack behind There There

A tour of the technology we used to build There There, and why we reached for the boring choices on purpose.

Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten · May 29, 2026 · 6 min read