I really like Dan and have been following his stuff since the mid-2000s, but it's hard to apply this advice generally.
#2 and #3 are only effective if you're Dan Cederholm. He already had a reputation which put him in a very luxurious position to essentially choose his first users and have them actually use it. The same goes for #3 – imagine if all of the "people you want on your platform" got tshirts and postcards from every startup that wanted them?
This feels like this fills the void between people who don't care about calories and people who really care about calories. I know people (read: myself) who are too lazy to measure everything down the milligram and just want an order or magnitude sense of calorie intake.
> there isn't enough money to be made to satisfy VC investors. Mailbox and the like could have lived quite comfortably as paid-for apps with comfortable
I'm not sure that's true (see: Sparrow). I just don't think there is enough demand for people to want to pay for an email client. I imagine for a huge majority of people, default mail client's work fine enough for personal use.
We're looking for iOS and backend (Golang) engineers. You can read more here: http://timehop.com/joinus
We've got millions of daily active users who love using and opening the every single day.
For iOS, we use a MVVM architecture for our app and use ReactiveCocoa in a bunch of it.
On the backend side, we written a ton of Golang using DynamoDB to access and play around with our > 160 TB of data.
Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have millions of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second.
It should offend you because that statement is suggesting that your utility and your worth is merely a function of your gender, not because of your skill. That the only value a woman brings in this case is "fundraising as well as getting authenticity with parents" - not their skill or any perspective that you wouldn't have.
It is this kind of "not my fault" attitude that slows down progress in gender equality.
I think the real lesson here is developers have a warped sense of time and would rather spend relatively much more time building a website to solve a problem than it would just to learn it
Have you seen http://750words.com/? It's an awesome tool that does exactly that and gives you some insights and game mechanics to make the exercise more interesting
We're looking for backend engineers, devops, and designers. You can read more here: http://timehop.com/joinus
We write a ton of Golang and Ruby to support our recent amazing growth (see: http://j.mp/TimehopGrowthGraph - thats 6.5x since March!).
Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have MILLIONS of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second
We recently became consistently a top 25 US iPhone app, making us the fastest growing app in NYC!
Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have MILLIONS of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second
We recently became consistently a top 50 US iPhone app, surpassing Tumblr, Yelp, Foursquare and GroupMe in daily downloads.