mynameisraj

SEEKING WORK

Location: US (remote only)

Remote: yes

iOS/OSX/Web Design + Engineering. Have worked with many YC-backed companies. http://mynameisraj.com

I've gone while I was in high school.

In-app hologram when you edit your credit card. Unfortunately this is not in the shipping build of Pay with Square, but it was there in Card Case (and was epic!).

Fun fact: this was originally done in Square's Card Case (by Robert Andersen, who coincidentally used to work at Apple). The hologram on the credit card used to change with the angle of the phone.

$9.99 for the first 24 hours after launch. $19.99 afterwards.

Thanks. :-)

Oops. I'll fix this.

SEEKING WORK — remote (United States)

I design things. I'm particularly interested in iOS projects. Have worked with many, many YC companies: Posterous, Mixpanel, Greplin, Talkbin, Parse, and more.

http://raj.so

I'm 17, and drive a manual. My parents thought I was crazy when I said I wanted to only drive manual, and I've noticed that at my school my vehicle is one of probably 5 cars (out of >100) in our lot that's a stick. When I ask friends why they don't drive stick, they say they simply don't want to deal with the hassle of it. Enthusiasts are few and far between…

Fun fact: holding the shift key will slow down the animations.

Education wise, they are composed of a Harvard grad, a Yale grad, and a Stanford student.

Background wise, they are composed of two with backgrounds in retail at SHLD, and one from GOOG.

They are a great team, but their product is also great, so I think that it's more than just for talent.

Congrats guys! It's been a pleasure working with you.

Is the black model new? I hadn't seen that one before.

Looks like Mixpanel is. http://mixpanel.com/internships

Neat idea, but please be careful and obtain permission before using Ollie the Twitterrific bird (http://twitterrific.com).

Really glad to see this at last, but there's a negative side as well… Loren was actually never supposed to give the app to anybody. His 'testers' were never supposed to exist. All this story has done is cause him trouble- people have admitted that they've had the application for weeks, and that's part of the reason why you'll see a few people freaking out on Twitter.

Looks like a very useful and nice app. Being a picky interface person though, I do have two very minor complaints: your wood texture for the nav bar is overly saturated. If you could tone down the saturation and maybe implement some custom nav buttons, you'd have yourself a much better looking interface (not that it doesn't look good already, though). The second is that the wood does not match that seen in the icon.

Solid app otherwise, though. Thanks for making it free.

I'm a designer…

StockTwits has a lot of small issues with its logotype which contributes to its 'average' label. The type is not kerned correctly, uses an awkward typeface (look at, for example, the w), and has that odd messages icon on top of the i.

SimpleGeo, on the other hand, has a beautifully kerned typeface, contains a more recognizable logo (note the compass; this is something that can eventually become instantly recognizable), and is overall simpler- by that, I mean that it can be used in a large variety of mediums (note the color in StockTwits' logo).

Overall, the main difference is in the type itself- tall, awkward, and lanky type versus medium, large, and overall more visually clear type.

Unfortunately, MacRabbit won't be updating Espresso until the first half of 2011 (probably 4-5 months).

See: http://twitter.com/#!/espressoapp/status/18041354806370304

Correct, it does lack HDR. There's an HDR filter, but it doesn't come close to HDR shots from the default camera app.

I wouldn't say Things is dead. The Hit List, another task manager, also went under the radar…

But at least Andy (the guy behind THL) is showing some progress: http://www.thehitlistapp.com

Cultured Code mentions some internal problems. I wonder what happened?

Heard the same thing, but yeah, it's a rumor, of course. http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/08/report-60k-chrome-os-no...

My bad. It does require Flash.

Does anybody know what this is written in/on, specifically? JavaScript/HTML seems a bit vague to me.

Now, I realize this is a demo, but aside from that, I really don't think things like this should be used in a final product.

Why? CSS wasn't made for this. We have SVG for graphics like this. This is a demo, yes, and it's great to demonstrate the capabilities of CSS for making small graphics, but in practicality, I don't see the point. The key problem is graceful degrading- there simply is none here.

Regardless, I love seeing things like this, and he's done a good job. Good work.

Odd. I set Instagram to always send my original (unedited) photo to the Camera Roll. What's wrong with that?

The spreadsheet is a bit of a mess. I've got a two letter that I need to let go, though. http://rr.tl

Great for a URL shortener or the likes, I figure. Trade/sell works for me!

Talk with a few advisors and lawyers individually, and then if you still don't have a clear idea, maybe meet with some advisors/lawyers with both of you in the room.

If all else fails, I'd re-write the business plan in terms of who does what. What are you good at? What aren't you good at? If he has a bad sense of design, maybe he shouldn't be handling that aspect, etcetera.

With that said, I hope that all goes well and that this startup succeeds!

Great to hear! I'm also curious as to what your business is.

Congrats on getting to a better place; hopefully you can go further and expand more!

Not sure if it would help, but our teaser page is at http://wearepico.com - The about text is a pretty good summary of our goals, I think.