nicktal

Casa | Multiple Eng Roles | Remote | Full-time | https://keys.casa

Hi, I’m the Dir of Eng at Casa and we're looking to fill a handful of engineering roles, e.g. a Sr Software Engineer - Backend, iOS Engineer, Android Engineer, Data Engineer, QA, and SRE Lead. We're also open to general engineering inquiries from humans looking to join our mission to give everyone sovereignty over their digital lives via multi-sig security and ownership over their private keys.

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I'm working on an app that enables people to send unlimited content over cellular, organized into stories. In the moment is when network and context is lost for created content. It's how we should preserve moments: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keepsake-send-tons-photos/id...

When are we going to learn? Ripping some tech PR and being at SXSW getting PMF with techies and media-types for a product that needs mainstream traction is a death-knell.

The same happened with Secret/Whisper last year and I commented that based on my focus groups in the Midwest, Yik Yak was going to clean their clock. And they did.

It's because mobile is so pervasive and mainstream we need to look at the market from a mature distribution perspective. Dare I say even from a packaged goods perspective. How do you get a new brand of yogurt on the shelves? What's the quality bar necessary? If you win at distribution where everyone lives, you win period.

The "Crossing the Chasm" Christensen model that worked for Google over a decade ago when the preferred medium of distribution of a tech product was not mainstream does not apply today for consumer.

Attracting and retaining users, on mobile especially, is extremely tough, no matter how good your "cake" tastes, even if it is free.

Great article and totally stand by this in how I've designed my consumer product. However, it is quite poorly written. If I had not spent a ton of time reading academic papers there's no way I would have been able to follow this.

Yes, I do! I've long held this belief. Especially now when there are so many platforms, devices, toolsets, designs, and languages you can use. Coding has converged to an artistic medium in itself. One of the prevailing characteristics of an artistic medium is boundless permutations to express oneself. Think about letters and words on a page for a poem or paint colors and strokes on canvas. I wrote about this at length in this post awhile ago, which has a deliberately tongue-in-cheek title: https://medium.com/@eastbeast/i-am-an-artist-and-tech-is-my-...

CameronBanga, appreciate you sharing this! As a long-time iOS designer and developer, I appreciate you helping and effort in finding a great one.

I unfortunately think that all of your questions are at best, filtering questions to ensure they have base familiarity with pretty benign facts and at worse, questions that give no insight at all into iOS abilities. Your design questions are, in particular, extremely trivial and almost silly.

Feel free to reach-out to me if you'd like to collab on a better list.

Everyone else reading this, no even semi-serious iOS developer or designer would endorse these questions as a robust way to filter candidates or even teach yourself.

Yes! I am a hacker that loves to cook. Here are my answers: 1. I do it because I find it to be relaxing and a welcome hands-on activity that is just creative enough to dig into fast after hours of staring at a screen. 2. This past summer I would plan ahead and cook quite a bit on Sundays to get meals together for the week. Eliminates a lot of spend and thinking as well as waiting around during lunch time when you want to just focus. 3. I cook things that scale well for myself and the team as well as have a good balance of protein/veggies. Roasts with roasted veggies. Whole chickens. Lasagna with spinach salad. Stir fry. Curries. Fried rice. Bean salads. 4. Not really. I generally eat not as many carbs, but by no means am I a no-carb or low-carb. I focus on getting veggies in the mix. 5. To be more productive in the kitchen is to have a well-stocked freezer plus fridge and have an organized shopping list every week at a certain time. Also a good amount of spices and high quality canned goods to round-out meals when you are out of something.

Happy cooking!

Agreed. Been playing with it the past few days.

I feel the same way about Keepsake and I taught myself to code 9 months ago to build it and will work on it forever. It's roughly in the same market as HeyDay, but with a different perspective around grouping content semantically and quickly sorting it to publish on your iPhone: http://www.getkeepsake.com/

If it makes you feel any better, I've held the opinion for years now that ratings are broken across most services on the web. Jeff Bezos even acknowledged as much in a famous essay of his on how the distribution of one-to-five star ratings settle over time. Still, every new service sticks to the binary thumbs-up/down model or five-star. I'm sure you probably know the pitfalls of each, so good luck to you. I'm hoping you'll become the Disqus of ratings for every site. The analogy holds, interestingly, in my mind: comments had no consistency along UX or reputation before Disqus came along.

this is really...safe (and boring). there are a myriad of more interesting ways mobile photos could be arranged and displayed. perhaps geo-tagged? people? instead a grid. temporally arranged. that looks like my fb profile. yawn.

A link to Verge's live-blog feed...much better than Engadget's http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-live-blog-tablet-announce...