Archive for April 2010
The First Review of Tweetworks for iPhone
Nothing like a little cold water to wake you up on a Wednesday morning after releasing a product you have been working on for months. Below is the first review of the Tweetworks for iPhone application as submitted to the iTunes app store.
Does not seem very useful? – ★
by Ninja Twitter – Version 1.0 – 27 April 2010
Just got the app… Have 10000s of followers, nothing happen on the main screen and groups… I must be missing something… Maybe usability issue? Looking foward to 1.1… Back to Tweetie… 4 Now!
Ugh! Remember in the Empire Strikes Back when Han Solo tries to make the jump to light speed and the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive won’t turn over? Yeah, it feels a bit like that.
I really do wish Apple would provide a way for me to respond to “Ninja Twitter” so I could let him or her know that we have a bug on the API side of things that was the cause of the trouble and that we are working feverishly to fix it.
Some problems just don’t surface until you get a bunch of people using the product. It’s hard to test a web service fully without flipping on the switch and letting the world in. So, last night we had an issue with Twitter mentions not coming in and matching up with Tweetworks threads properly and this morning the entire site crashed which was awesome.
I promise we are working on getting things working as they should to give you the best conversational tools available on the market. Stick with me, this is going to be fun.
Help Wanted – Kick Ass Developers
I have been running Tweetworks as a solo entrepreneur with an outsourced tech team for long enough. It’s time to bring some kick ass development talent in house. If you want to be part of a game changing company that is ready to start making some noise in the Twitter ecosystem and beyond I would love to talk with you.
Check out the About page on Tweetworks for a quick overview of what I’ve built so far to get started thinking about where we might take this thing together. Also, the Tweetworks iPhone app is currently awaiting approval in the iTunes App store at the time of this writing so there’s some more awesomeness there to think about.
Experience tells me I am looking for two people, one to handle the back-end firepower and another to be our front-end UI/UX maestro.
So, you need to be kick ass (as mentioned above), need to want to work on some game changing coolness and you need to be able to bring some of the skills below to the table:
- MySQL and Symfony PHP – Tweetworks is built on a LAMP stack. We are using Symfony 1.4 framework with Doctrine 1.2 for the persistence layer. Knowledge of Domain Driven Design methodology and server side stuff would be helpful here too as you might imagine.
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript – The current Tweetworks site is using a lot of Prototype stuff with a little bit of jQuery and standard javascript mixed in. I’d like to see us working with a more consistent approach with a focus on standards and cross browser consistency.
- Web Services Experience – Tweetworks not only hits the Twitter API substantially but we also have an API of our own so you need to have a command of JSON syntax plus in depth knowledge of HTTP protocol to work with headers and authentication. Demonstrated work with the Twitter API and other ecosystem APIs such as Tweetphoto, Posterous, Tumblr and so on would be fantastic.
Now for the fine print. Tweetworks is a self-funded startup. This is not a jump from your job a Big Co for a fat salary type of gig. There will be equity awarded in the early stages to make up for the lack of kick ass salary which we intend to make more valuable than anything Big Co could ever dream of paying you.
Tweetworks is currently a virtual company so it is not 100% necessary for you to live in the Boston area although it would be ideal if you did for all the reasons you might imagine.
If you find yourself thinking “that sounds cool” you should contact me and we’ll chat. The best way to contact me is via Twitter (hint use Tweetworks). Give me a follow (I’ll follow back) and tweet me up and we’ll get the ball rolling from there.
Tweetworks iPhone App Intro
