James' Audiolog: Indie.am

I woke up this morning with about four hours of sleep. I'Ve got a funny alert on my phone or static city and server was returning errors strange errors. Sometimes it was working. Sometimes it wasn't. I looked at the logs a little bit on my phone and decided to get up and investigate it. It turned out back blaze B2, which is an AWS, is three alternative that we use to store static files was down. W...

I have officially switched from Sketch to Figma: but it's not what you think, I'm not abandoning Sketch, but the other day when I tried installing Sketch on my new M1 Mac, I ran into a maintenance window and I couldn't renew my license. So I ended up having to install Figma and I ended up using it for the past three days without really running into any issues, so I have officially swit...

So here's my update for Wednesday February 10 just got test flight approved for public access, which means I can give people a link to opt into the TestFlight instead of having to invite them as a user in our organization, which is really cool. But ups are limit from about 100 users to 10,000, which will probably last quite a while, and we still don't have to do a full App Store review process, bu...

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

A friend of mine, Brian Hall, is about to launch on product on a tool he created called cofounder question cards. It'S basically a website you go to, and it's great questions that you can ask your potential cofounder of something that's inspired by an earlier article called date. Night questions - and you know one of those things were. It was like interesting questions to ask like somebody on a da...

Mark Andriessen and Ben Horowitz just hosted a room on clubhouse, and I thought I would recap a few interesting things that came up. One of the most interesting topics that Mark brought up was just that large scale systems usually don't age well, and it applies to a lot of things, especially our government. Basically, it's really hard to make a large scale system work in the first place and those...

So I just got out of the clubhouse room, with Jason Bloom from blue Mounds and BJ Novak, and they were talking for a while about streaming media and the existing film industry, television, industry and the transition to streaming Netflix on your a few things that I've thought Pretty deeply about as a technologist are used to work at HBO work on HBO max, and so it's some thing I thought about, alth...

It'S been crazy following the uptake in Mandarin speaking users in the clubhouse up over the last couple of weeks, and so I remember when I first went to Clubhouse the only Mandarin speakers. There were a few Americans in Taiwanese in like language practice room. There is a club where you can practice Mandarin in, like a few hundred people, maybe at most were on the app at a time just like practic...

So I'm gonna kick off at the register talk about audio best social networks in general I am this all happened inside of the in the a.m. app feel free to chime in if you have any thoughts on the subject

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

So today, I'm working on what I think will become the core feature of this app in that thread and conversations. I'Ve just started experimenting with us a couple of days ago, but basically the idea is when I post a new topic, it's one audio file, all the replies to that become a threat just like a Reddit thread or a hacker news thread or a tweet storm or A Twitter thread, but because you have audi...

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

Here is my Andy make her check in for Thursday, February 4 haven't worked on the app for a few days I've been minor bug fixes but I got a lot done today and I basically just worked on it all day and implemented a few tweaks to how the fees and timelines work I implemented notifications on an activity feed so that you can see who has a commentator followed you you can also like edit and delete comm...

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

Right, I want to try a new post format for this time. I'M sharing a meme with a very short audio clip

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷

Fingers crossed if this works it'll be really awesome but I've just completed my first attempt at transcribing audio as it's recorded and uploading it with every post one in the a.m.

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey 😷