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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Mic, the Millennial-focused publication, acquired Hyper recently. Here's their first product launch within the new company.
@markusgilles - Apple TV still feels very nascent and of course, the consumption experience is much different than mobile (e.g. iPhone or iPad). I'm curious to learn more about your design process building Hyper.
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jonas brandau
@jonasbrandau · Founder, Hyper
Hi guys, Jonas – Head of Product & Design at Hyper.
@rrhoover Yes! Designing for the big screen is totally different, but super interesting. Especially on Apple TV with it’s swipe based remote. We wanted to challenge ourselves and not go with standard tvOS templates, so we built everything custom and from scratch.
It starts with an immersive full screen overview of your days (video background), followed by an intuitive sideways feed. Everything is build around the medium video. You won’t find any static images. We even added background music (that can be muted), which is of course something you’d never do on a mobile device. I’m really excited to see what people think of the experience!
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Simon Burns
@realsimonburns · Growth at Opendoor
@jonasbrandau @rrhoover Love this - I've been thinking a lot about what will be the killer apps (excuse the term) for Apple TV. Gaming has been talked about a fair amount but there doesn't seem to be the right tools for gaming to take off. Side by side March Madness viewing was an in-app experience I loved.
Multimedia journalism in the way that you're doing it with Hyper is a very unique way to take advantage of the medium. What is the future of using tvOS as a platform for developers? What apps do you think will take the user's imagination in a way that they don't on other platforms?
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