treystout

maker/cofounder/cto here.

Eager to get some community feedback on this app launch. I'll spare this audience the marketing speak and go right into what is different:

- OpenGL instead of UIKit. The message stream and individual messages are all 3D meshes with shader materials on them. Making them easy to animate/interact with each other in novel ways.

- Handwriting instead of Helvetica. We're using a patented system from our other product (handwriting.io) to generate 3D meshes of handwriting. This adds a surprising amount of personality to a chat session.

- Effect system marketplace. Because the effects (on text and replies) are JS+WebGL they can be deployed without shipping app updates. Hopefully with a decent SDK visual devs would enjoy making chat effects on this platform.

Thank you for checking it out!

Can confirm. I just hired an ops engineer from the underdog.io list.

Wow, today I learned I've nursed a lot of 4th Trimester startups. Great imagery.

Is the product an editable PDF, that I then fill in for each year I use it?

Very cool idea. Would be nice if there was some way to see a summary. Maybe it gets like a little mini-dashboard somewhere on the screen, and then I can click it to hide/show all notes, edit existing ones, or maybe even see all notes across pages on the domain.

Nice write-up. I find this sort of thing fascinating. When are you guys thinking of tackling more languages? Maybe something that lends itself to static analysis a bit more?

Also how long did that regex take to run on 5.0e8 lines of ruby?

A lot of python shops I've come across don't use the system installed python or ruby. In python land at least it's exceedingly common to deploy a virtualenv with a separate python runtime and isolated 3rd party libs. This makes pinning your version deps easier and doesn't matter if the underlying server is ubuntu or centos or whatever.