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What Is Blossom Carousel?

Marvin Schwaibold points founders to Blossom Carousel, a carousel kit Jasper Voss has been building. Blossom Carousel swipes and scrolls, comes in a multitude of variations, and stacks on mobile. The kit is free to use on GitHub.

A carousel on screen does not drag and does not swipe with the track pad. The whole carousel only works when someone interacts with the buttons, and button-only controls are the wrong way to build the component. Blossom Carousel is the kit already underway. The carousel swipes and scrolls, it comes in a multitude of different variations and versions, and it comes as stacks on mobile.

Founders and entrepreneurs watching the show can use it. Carousels get way better instantly.

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