Hey all, I've been working in my evenings on a Mac app for Instagram with @mirgehtsganzgut that goes away with the social-side and distractions that Instagram throws at you and releases you from the pretty basic web-version that Instagram offers. Edge-to-edge beautiful photos sliding by your screen throughout the day was one of the key ideas of making Flume - it wasn't important to me who posted a photo or how many likes and comments it had - for me it was about the photo. That's what inspired the feed view. Of course, Instagram is a social network, so those details are still available for you there if you want them, but the idea was to highlight photography, not followers.
While working on Flume for Mac, I discovered an opportunity to give a smaller but still beautiful Instagram experience to people who don't have a Mac and for those that didn't want to browse via an app. I open hundreds of tabs a day and I don't want to go to my phone to check my Instagram feed, and that's where Flume New Tab was born. Available now for Safari and Chrome, you can bring some beauty to your blank tabs!
Flume for Mac is currently in beta and I'm taking some limited testers on board - Instagrammers are obviously preferred. Get in touch on the website to let me know.
If you're curious about the name - since it's shared with a famous musician - flume is an old English word that means a river or stream. When new items photo pop into the Mac app, it feels like a drop of water in a stream.
I found this to be a peaceful late-night experience. I put the window to fullscreen to avoid all other distractions, rotated my Magic Mouse 90º, and just smooth scrolled through the story. Really nice.
A colleague of mine wrote that Open in Github plugin when we worked together - it's incredibly useful if your code's hosted there and you do pull-request code reviews.
There's some elements that remind me of Moped (http://blog.moped.com), which has since been bought and shut-down. It's actually quite more enjoyable to keep this stuff out of your inbox, and if you really wanted to, you could use Moped as your email client. I don't use Hangouts, but doesn't that require other people you send messages to to also have Hangouts etc?
Perhaps this is the kind of attention he didn't want. His Twitter timeline makes him sound like a pretty humble indie dev who is more interested in making games fun than making money. I guess the "fun" part doesn't exist when you get death threats.
Working overtime (here and there) and Crunch Mode might not necessarily be the same thing. The problem is it's hard to break the shackles. Imagine when a new person joins this small group of people. They see you are all working until 10pm, how does that make them feel about their responsibilities of being "accepted"?
It's just not healthy for any sustained amount of time. I don't know what kind of lifestyle you are living when your only activities are sleep (less than you need), eating (less than you should, and/or unhealthy food) and work.
It happens in Europe wherever there's a startup city. The author is based in Berlin like myself, and this city has a fairly new and growing startup scene. I have many friends working across different startups, and "Crunch Mode" is definitely happening around the place. You notice it second-hand when your friends don't come out on the weekend with you because they're so exhausted they need to rest, or they're still at the office.
While working on Flume for Mac, I discovered an opportunity to give a smaller but still beautiful Instagram experience to people who don't have a Mac and for those that didn't want to browse via an app. I open hundreds of tabs a day and I don't want to go to my phone to check my Instagram feed, and that's where Flume New Tab was born. Available now for Safari and Chrome, you can bring some beauty to your blank tabs!
Flume for Mac is currently in beta and I'm taking some limited testers on board - Instagrammers are obviously preferred. Get in touch on the website to let me know.
If you're curious about the name - since it's shared with a famous musician - flume is an old English word that means a river or stream. When new items photo pop into the Mac app, it feels like a drop of water in a stream.
Thanks and happy browsing!