Assembly

Quirky for Software

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Quirky for Software

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Assembly is a web collaboration platform that allows anyone around the world to build software apps collectively while retaining ownership and receiving profit for their contributions. Each month Assembly rewards contributors by splitting the apps’ proceeds between them.

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Eat.ai

Maker

@ryanhoover - Coderwall is still part of our company (Assembly). Its been running on autopilot steadily growing in usage and revenue. Coderwall will be here to stay. The initial vision with Coderwall was to help engineers find better career opportunities. Coderwall tackled the hardest thing about innovating in recruiting, sourcing, first. Then in 2013 Coderwall began to work on job matchmaking. While refining the product, we talked with a lot of users and heard the same feedback over and over which was the spark that led us to Assembly. I think of Assembly as a broader (more outlandish) solution to our original goals and mission of Coderwall.

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12yr ago

Eat.ai

Maker

Thanks @zackshapiro - I think in general the maker class wants to self direct their work and make money on their own terms. Your pull request analogy fits in nicely with that; identify a problem/solution, fix it, and share. Quirky has done a phenomenal job making the research and development (IP) of new products a collaborative process. Quirky then handles the manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment all themselves because of the physical nature of their products. With software, it is primarily all IP based so we are working to make the entire product lifecycle an open collaborative process.

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12yr ago

Linear

Interesting idea, the problem with Quirky is that it quickly bottomed out to ideas that can be made quickly and cheaply - most of their products are accessories and tit-tat. The challenge will be keeping quality high and maintaining the ever-increasing catalogue of apps.

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12yr ago

@mdeiters I love this new model. I have been thinking about various ideas that are "quirky for this/that" for quite some time. Actually....just thought of an idea, that I'll throw into Assembly. :)

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12yr ago

Eat.ai

Maker

@ryanhoover - well the vision and audience has expanded but we're still focused on helping people lead a fulfilling career. We're curating the ideas for next month now...so stay tuned. There are lots of interesting ones, some more feasible then others. I thought the idea for BitCoin Futures was pretty timely. thanks @bmwales!

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12yr ago

Farmstead

@mdeiters @rrhoover we're talking about an options market for bitcoins right?

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12yr ago

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