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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
I have mad respect for team Pushd. I've been playing with a few of their experimental, pre-release apps over the past several months. They've taken a non-traditional approach to "starting up" and each app they've built gets better, building upon their previous work. @tylr, @bcherry, @abdur - Where did the idea for Steven come from? P.S. Added Steven to t… See more
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Tyler Howarth@tylr · Designer at Airbnb
@rrhoover thanks for the kind words. We originally built a product that was very similar - but required much more training and text input. We scrapped that one because it didn't detect enough statuses for most people with the training involved. We built another 5 apps then came back around to this original idea but switched all the statuses to emojis which… See more
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Tyler Howarth@tylr · Designer at Airbnb
@rrhoover Here's a little more about our thoughts - http://blog.steventheapp.com/pos...
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Robleh Jama@robjama · Product @Shopify prev.@Tiny Hearts acq'd
@rrhoover Testing it out now! I'd love to hear/read more about their non-traditional approach to starting up. Did you mean to link to a blog post above?
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Tyler Howarth@tylr · Designer at Airbnb
@robjama I think @rrhoover meant to link to this - http://ryanhoover.me/post/792968...
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@robjama I'll let @tylr, @abdur, or @bcherry fill in the details. I made a typo and linked to the wrong URL (fixed!) earlier in the comment thread. I meant to point to this blog post which references their previous experiment, Gummie. Abdur has an awesome quote that embodies their mindset: "Changing the way people think about their encounters and having … See more
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