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Feb 22

Hackday

Every couple of weeks, our engineering team has a hackday. It’s a time when our engineers can work on Singly-related side projects that are outside of current feature or infrastructure milestones. It can be building apps, connecting the platform to more services or anything else they choose to do. It’s always fun to see what they come up with–check out a quick sum-up of yesterday’s hackday:

Feb 22

Looking for a UI + UX Lead

About us:
Singly is a startup based in the Mission District of San Francisco.

We’re on a mission to empower individuals and developers by breaking down barriers that limit personalization and creative expansion of the web. By connecting networks and platforms and allowing open interaction and portability of data, Singly will turn constraint into opportunity. We aren’t simply allowing developers to build on this platform; we’re encouraging, supporting and interacting with them in every way.

Our office is open, beautiful and bright. In fact, so is our team. We ♥ node.js, sunlight, vegetables, good beer, music and anything open source. Singly prides itself on maintaining a positive atmosphere with open communication and an ever-challenging workload.

About you:
You need a job that you love. You’re excited about solving difficult problems and creating the future of sharing on the web. You seek consensus but are not intimidated by groups. You’re excited about making tools for developers, and eating dog food.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with the product lead to design and prototype apps and features.
Lead the user experience as we grow, including helping to build the team.
Collaborate with engineers and other designers as needed.
Create (or commission) pixel perfect assets.
Ability to work across engineering, product, and marketing functions (even though, secretly, ______ is your favorite).
Translate product requirements into UI/UX concepts, mockups, flowcharts. Iterate. Rinse and repeat.

Requirements:

5+ years designing browser and mobile applications.
A portfolio of beautiful and useful things you’ve made.
Not to brag, but you’re quite handy with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Google docs.
Develop and maintain specs and mocks.
Ability to move between designing for different users.
Understanding of browser and mobile web design best practices.
Experience with responsive web design.
Experience with Github.

Feb 21

Free Helicopters!

As if merely opening the site to developers wasn’t incentive enough for you to start building on our platform, we’re also giving away free helicopters to the first 20 developers who publish apps on Singly. You must be thinking, “Surely these aren’t real helicopters, right?” Well, they are real helicopters. Real, 3 oz remote controlled helicopters, just like the one in the photo.

So go ahead and set up a Singly account by authorizing Github, check out our dev docs, and get hacking! If you don’t hurry, your dreams of taking a private helicopter ride down to Texas next month for SXSWi may just drift away.

If you have any questions, you can reach me at community(at)singly(dot)com.

Feb 20

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Open for developers

Last week we opened our site up to developers with Github. Since then, we’ve had hundreds of new accounts created and an outpouring of feedback. Rather than tell you about it, we’ll just show you a few comments we got on Twitter over the weekend:

The next weeks and months are going to be exciting here at Singly, so check back often for news about our platform :)

Feb 16

Late night at the office

We were all working late last night. These photos filled with pretty faces don’t begin to tell the story of the grueling work that was accomplished, but they are worth sharing :)

Also, at the bottom of this post, check out the video of our team getting a surprise serenade.