Feb 16
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.
I do many things at Singly, but first and foremost, I am a creator. Ranging from full scale product & company creation on down to hacking on the weekends, I bring things to life for a living. This idea is a big part of how I think about personal data – it’s about more than just ownership, access, and control, it’s first and foremost a platform for creation, for Making Stuff.
A platform for creation could mean almost anything, so to get started we thought about what it would feel like to create using personal data with most (if not all) of the many pain points lifted – authentication, aggregation, collation, deduplication, storage, indexing…the list is long and often deflating. I believe incredible things will happen with those obstacles out of the way and we’ve been building like crazy to make that a reality. Our first version makes it super fast and easy to create powerful, yet lightweight HTML+CSS+JS apps that leverage an extensible set of your personal data without the need to run a server or write any backend code to solve the problems on the aforementioned Long List. We are beginning to send out invites and are so excited to see what sort of Stuff you Make. :).
With that, the only thing better than Making Stuff, is Making Stuff with Friends, so last Thursday we reached out to some friends, new and old and all gathered at our space here in the mission to experiment and Make Stuff Together (over beer and pizza, of course). In the course of only about 3 hours some really awesome things were created!
All my checkins on Excessive Mapper (can you tell my girlfriend lives in NYC???)
I actually unfollowed two of these accounts after seeing this!
Soon, we will be sending out more invites to developers to get an account and start building things. Sign up at singly.com to get on the list and be sure to put in your GitHub handle if you are a developer. If you are as excited as we are (improbable, but I’m open to the possibility!) and want to get in as soon as possible, there are a few ways to get (extra) early access:
I am so excited for the community we are building around this idea and can’t wait to meet as many of you as possible in the future!
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
- Man Ray
Over the past several weeks, Singly has begun to take shape. Since we’ve been heads down working on product development, I’d like to share some of what we’ve accomplished recently.
Continuing to build on the Locker Project code base, we’ve developed the open source platform to the point where we can demonstrate an exciting range of functionality. It’s capable of syncing, archiving and indexing pictures, tweets, links and social connections across six different services, and provides a unified API to access all of the collected data.
As proof of concept, so far we’ve used it to create:
These basic tools nicely demonstrate the breadth of capabilities available in the platform today. We’ve also built out all of the trimmings, like making it easy to sign up and connect to all of your accounts.
Next, we’re working on opening up the platform for developers to build their own applications. Armed with JavaScript and HTML, you’ll be able to create sophisticated tools, powered by personal data, without the hassle of building a data management backend. If you’re interested, drop us a line with your email address, and we’ll put you on the list for early invitations.
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