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May 18

Hack Day Update

Eight hours later we had three (shades of functioning) apps! That’s how simple it is to build on the Singly platform. Keep in mind, these are just bare-bones projects built by two or three people in an afternoon – so don’t expect anything too polished. Meet the apps:

Do I know thee?

Do I Know Thee? Available now in the Chrome Store.

Problem addressed: Hundreds of non-spam emails per day. No way to tell which ones come from people I know.

Solution built: Do I know Thee? Empowered by Singly  is available now in the Chrome Store. When you open up your inbox, any email from someone whom you aren’t connected to on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram will appear grayed out. This will highlight the emails from your real contacts, empowering you to move ever more quickly toward that elusive world of INBOX ZERO.

After Life

Problem addressed: Too much noise in my feeds across services

AfterLife web app

Solution built: After Life Empowered by Singly. A web app that shows posts from various people in your networks without telling you who posted them. If you drag them up, they go to “Heaven,” and if you drag them down they go to “Hell.” It’s a fun game that will shed light on the people in your networks whom you might not need to be subscribing to.

Foodie Finder

Foodie Finder

Problem addressed: Too many great restaurants. Yelp doesn’t help me see where people whose opinions I trust are eating out.

Solution built: Foodie Finder Empowered by Singly. A mobile app that provides a stream of restaurants – and only restaurants – where your friends have checked in or taken photos. Next-step features would be the ability to curate a list of specific people whose food tastes you trust. This one didn’t make it into the App Store yesterday, but it still looked pretty good.

Also, don’t forget to register for our $10,000 App Challenge:
Eventbrite - Singly $10,000 App Challenge

May 17

Hack day at Singly

Every so often, we have an internal hack day. This can mean different things, but this time around we broke off into teams to build applications on the Singly platform.  We started off the morning with problem/solution pitches from everyone on the team, and then narrowed down to three popular projects. Here’s what we’re building today:

AfterLife (Temas + Beau)

Problem: Too much noise in my feeds across services

Solution: Present feed in a visually appealing way with basic info from each post. I can drag each post up to “heaven” or down to “hell.” I can later see if lots of posts from a specific user went to hell, in which case I may want to remove that person from my social graph.

Foodie Follower (Tyler + Kristján)


Problem: Too many great restaurants. Yelp doesn’t help me see where people whose opinions I trust are eating out.

Solution: Select a set of people in your network whose food preferences you trust, and see the restaurants where they check in, post photos, etc.

Do I know? (Simon, Jer, Sash)


Problem: I receive hundreds of non-spam emails each day. I need a way to know if I know the people who are emailing me.

Solution: A lightweight email app. I click a “Do I Know?” button, and the app checks all my networks, and pops up a red or green light next to each. If I get a red light on each service, I likely don’t know the person.
Check back later for updates on the progress of our apps. And, while you’re here, sign up for our $10,000 App Challenge:

Eventbrite - Singly $10,000 App Challenge

Apr 24

Build an app in a weekend – bring home $10,000

Calling all developers and designers! We’re hosting a hackathon on Saturday, June 2. Join us for a weekend of fun and programming, and the team that builds the best app using Singly’s API will walk away with $10,000. More prizes to be announced soon.

Eventbrite - Singly $10,000 Hackathon

Here’s the agenda:

Saturday, June 2

10:30 am: Coffee
11:00 am: Introduction, event rundown + API workshop
12 noon: Break away, make teams and start hacking.
6:00 pm: Hot pizza + cold beer
12 midnight: Cold pizza + hot beer
2:00 am: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Sunday, June 3

10:30 am: Coffee + hacking
4:00 pm: Hard deadline. All projects must be in thier presentable state.
4:15 pm: Demos!
6:00 pm: Judges disperse, Food
7:00 pm: Winners announced – prizes awarded ($10k to winning team, other prizes tbd)

Mar 7

Node.js Meetup

Last night we hosted the wonderful folks of the San Francisco Node.js Meetup in our office for food, beer, discussion and hacking. Check out a few photos from this fantastic night:

 

Feb 27

Simon goes to the Oscars?

Simon (co-founder and engineer at Singly) has a hacker/geek facade. But when he gets around other A-list celebrities and his Hollywood friends, “Smurthas” shows a different side. Last night he “rolled deep” with some of Silicon Valley’s most illustrious investors and a cadre of models (of course) to the Oscars. Check him out on the red carpet! (And for good measure, get a glimpse of admiring onlookers in the background).

Simon Murtha-Smith doesn't always pose for TMZ. But when he does, he shows them the bottom of his shoe.

 

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