Chad Etzel

Hi all! I built this app because I have several local places that I travel between frequently and just wanted a fast way to start navigation on demand. I also thought having an interesting UI where you drag between locations would be intuitive and fun. I also wanted to have a realistic rope appear while you are dragging, so I modeled the rope UI element after the actual catenary physics...

Hi PH! After working at Apple for several years, this is my first indie app I made and released. This idea came to me because my daughter enjoys drawing little doodles to send to her grandparents, and I thought it would be fun to make it easy to send them through iMessage as a sticker app... and it just sort of grew from there! I've been very inspired watching my beta testers make their little...

Hi all. I've been keeping a "Read Later" collection of tweets for over a year; tweets that I wanted to revisit or that had links to articles I wanted to read later. I finally got the idea to make my DM bot available to everybody. You can see my own Read Later collection here: https://twitter.com/jazzychad/timelines/412121998043525121 -- and you can read more about the @ReadLaterBot itself here:...

Oh yes! I have used Cathode for the last 3 years as my main terminal emulator on my desktop. It is always impressive to passers-by, and catting a long file to spew a ton of *boop*s always brings a smile. Worth every penny.

Another thought I just had about this... could this be FB's backdoor inroad into Twitter's real-time news dominance? Notify is basically Dead Simple Twitter.... if you stripped down Twitter for one of its main use-cases (following news/celebrity accounts), this is what it would look like.

Ah, well... I can only look at this and smile... I built Notifo in 2010 which was essentially the same product of letting consumers receive notifications from any source they wanted (complete with developer API)... http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/18/notifo/ - sadly without much traction it died a slow painful death. I like to think it was just ahead of its time. I have a soft spot in my heart for...

Hi all! Happy to get this out the door and on the store! It was fun to make and it's really fun to play. I'm also really happy with all the sound effects I added. Happy to answer questions! Here is the gameplay preview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRqhgpWPrec

Hi all! When I worked at Twitter on the official iOS app I wanted to build a feature like this that would allow people to create bookmarks to their favorite parts of the app. That project never got greenlit, so after I left Twitter I decided to build it myself as a 3rd party app that integrates with the Twitter app (and also Tweetbot). You can easily create bookmarks to your favorite users,...

Hi all. I made this using the new Add To Slack button integration. It's a really quick easy way to share whatever page you're currently reading into your favorite Slack channel(s). Sure, copy-paste works, but why do that when you can be even lazier?

This was really easy to integrate, nice work @buster ! I made Cat Facts for Slack :) http://catfacts.jazzychad.net/

Hi all, I've been running ShoutKey.com for 5 years. It started as an idea at a hackathon; a group of us were sitting around a table and wanted a better way to share links to everyone w/o having to fumble with bitly links or having to know everyone's IM/email address. So, I whipped up ShoutKey as a quick way to share a link verbally using an English word as the slug. Fast forward 5 years, and...

Well, this is awesome. In about 5 minutes (after a quick read of the excellent docs) I was able to create an "Intro BCC Button" which I have wanted in Gmail for years and years. It moves the Intro-er from To -> BCC and the Intro-ee from CC -> To and automatically inserts "(XX to BCC)" in the body of the reply. I can't tell you how many times I've had to do this manually and how nice it is to...