vashishthajogi

Excellent app. Free idea - Have an in-app purchase to have a hard cover printed journal for every year. Having a journal in a smartphone is good but a hard cover print gives a different feeling to those memories.

I would add small labels for Mon, Tue, ... Sun on the movable frame.

To be clear I meant "Smartest person in the room at platform X". Didn't mean to leave out that detail.

> The reality is that any "lead" role at a startup requires you to be the best in the room at your specialty.

Yes, it requires you to be the best in the room, but before joining I didn't honestly know what it would be like to be a lead (and only) developer for that platform x. After working for a few months I realized that being a lead so early in my career is not what I want. I still have to learn a lot things before I cab be an effective lead and lead a team of developers.

Yes 4 hours contributed significantly to the fact that I didn't have time to work on side projects. But I would have been equally happy if I had peers with whom I could discuss stuff and learn new things. The source or learning is not important. It can be side projects, it can be your peers. Learning is what matters. And working at an early stage startup meant I was the only one working on iOS stuff. Hence the title.

You are absolutely right. Having a peer wih whom you can talk about what you are working on getting your code reviewed is very important and helps you improve your knowledge. This was exactly my issue.

Also I do have a hotspot, I travel by train and work during those commute hours. But because I work long hours (4+7) this leads to the second issue that I mentioned - not having enough energy to work on side projects and not being able to learn new things apart from the normal work.

From what I asked, it seems like it is possible. Not sure how easy/hard it is though. The Senior Manager of the group that I interviewed for has 3 sub groups and he assured that it is totally possible to move between those groups.

That helps but nothing like having a 1-1 face to face interaction with some developer you meet everyday.

I agree that not all startups are like that.

Most startups that are in their early stage don't have many developers and also don't have the funding to hire an army of developers. So they only have one expert per field.

The team that I interviewed with at Apple has 4 experienced iOS developers and this team specifically uses libraries very extensively. Mostly they have libraries that they have developer in house, but when there is something better out there they try to adapt quickly.

Yes. This is the tweet that got me the job - https://twitter.com/ddenboer/status/314419356685705219

Sure. Check your email :)

Thanks for the positive comment. I have heard not so good things about the name from multiple folks. We are thinking to change it, but until we find a better one we are just going to keep it :)

We are building http://listypedia.com

Listypedia is like Wikipedia for lists. It is a place for the users to find precise and concise information about the things they are looking for. It allows users to create and share lists with their social network. Few examples of the lists could be most scenic places on earth, things to carry for a camping trip, must have productivity apps for iphone, etc. The items added to the lists will be character limited precise answers. The users will be able to create protected lists that will be visible only to authorized users. Users will be able to create new lists or use existing lists and share it with their network to keep track of what they want or things that should be done as a group by using the list as a checklist.

There will also be curating features where in the list creators and also the curators will be able to control what goes in to only allow relevant content. It will also allow users to vote and comment on individual items.

Listypedia will bring in all the good features of yahoo answers, wikianswers and stackoverflow. It aims at organizing the unorganized content on the web in the form of social comments, blog posts, etc.

We are planning to launch soon in a month.