I wish there was a way for ordinary hackers to work on electric airplanes, space shuttles, or robots on the side rather than photo sharing apps.
Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.
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#12I wish there was a way for ordinary hackers to work on electric airplanes, space shuttles, or robots on the side rather than photo sharing apps.
Solar airplane: http://solarimpulse.com/en/timestop/job-offer/
Space ship: http://www.spacex.com/careers.php
Robots: http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/jobs
We are hiring also: http://bu.mp/company/jobs
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#13How is this different from popset?
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#14Somewhat unrelated tip: The font on this blog is too small. I just measured and it is taking up only 20% of my screen.
I'd suggest a bigger font to make it more readable. Over 85% of people use a screen bigger than 1024x768 [1]. Take advantage of that. :)
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#15I wish there was a way for ordinary hackers to work on electric airplanes, space shuttles, or robots on the side rather than photo sharing apps.
Solar airplane: http://solarimpulse.com/en/timestop/job-offer/ Space ship: http://www.spacex.com/careers.php Robots: http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/jobs We are hiring also: http://bu.mp/company/jobs
I only bring it up because in the first paragraph you said it started as a side project. I apologize for my comment though, this was a bad thread to post it.
My original point though, was that sometimes I feel like we make these apps, because that's what we're capable of making by ourselves. The links you posted are great opportunities for what we can do together. But I think there's still a large opportunity out there. Think about how many people actually completed the Stanford AI course. I think it was something close to 20k. There's a HUGE amount of people who have day jobs, but have the potential to do BIG things on the side. Except they're all off on their own, so they build iphone apps.
I'm starting to get an idea here :D
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#16I wish there was a way for ordinary hackers to work on electric airplanes, space shuttles, or robots on the side rather than photo sharing apps.
See diydrones.com -- lots of ordinary hackers making extraordinary things. By the way, the people at bump do it by choice I'm sure. No one's forcing them to make a photo sharing app. :)
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#17This, finally, is the fourth paragraph:
Flock finds the photos you take together with family and friends and magically brings all the photos from each person's phone together into a single shared album.
At least it stands alone, making it somewhat more (quickly) identifiable.
And such formulation (as in this comment, by the way) is what is known as "burying the lede". [1]
I mention it because I'm getting rather tired of not just blog posts but also essays, news articles, and even marketing copy (which the OP could also be considered), that makes me read 200, 300, or 500 words before I learn what they are talking about.
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#18How will this be any different than the shared photo albums built-in to iOS6? Granted, I have not had the pleasure of using Flock or iOS6 - so this is not a rhetorical question.
The two problems we see with getting all the photos your friends took with you are 1) you have to remember to share and whom you want to share with and 2) its a pain to share them all with just a couple people (and have their photos added as well). We think all that work is what prevents us from getting all the photos our friends took with us. With shared photo albums on iOS6 it will be really easy to share a set of…
"Flock is not just a brand new app; we see it as a brand new kind of app. While most apps today jockey for our ever-dwindling time and attention, attempting to become one of the apps that we think about the most, Flock is different. We designed Flock so you don't have to think about it at all."
Great quote that really stands out after downloading the app. Fiancee and I are going to give it a try this weekend with some friends. I'm assuming, now that I've used it for a few hours, that it combines location AND time to make a best guess on what an event was. Very cool.
One thing that would be nice is to block out a certain location. For instance, we both take a ton of pictures at our house on a daily basis. For me, it's pictures of delicious things I'm pulling off the Big Green Egg. For her, it's pictures of our dog and her freshly-painted nails.
However, the instant combination of our travel photos earned a phone call from said fiancee. She loves it. Big props.
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#19How is this different from popset?
It has a different name, is made by different people, the two apps have entirely different feature-sets and focus, etc
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#20I've been using this app in beta for a while and it is so awesome. I really think this follows a new design pattern for mobile where the app is so smart it pings you when you should use it.