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An inside look at all the projects I'm working on.

Goals for Redesigning Wave Radio

Goals for Redesigning Wave Radio

This week I've started working on a major redesign of Wave Radio and it's becoming a lot bigger than I anticipated. While I'm testing out new ideas and trying to find the best one I think I need to keep in mind the reasons for this redesign along the way.

Building a Blog for Wave Radio

Building a Blog for Wave Radio

Recently I've decided to shift my focus on Wave Radio to growth. The goal is to gauge the results of product improvements I've made in the past few months since launch. I'm not looking to find a million users now but rather I'm trying to find sustainable methods to bring

Why I Killed User Activity

Why I Killed User Activity

A while back I wrote about how the product incentives I'd built into Wave Radio had pushed users' behaviour in a direction I didn't anticipate. To win the weekly game of "who's the best music discover-er" a few users would just post as many songs as they could. This drowned

Wave Radio Launch

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Wave Radio Launch

About two weeks ago I finally launched my latest project, Wave Radio. A community for sharing and discovering new music. It's been far from an astronomical launch story but there's been enough growth for me to be encouraged. The initial launch included a few tweets and emails to beta testers.

The Struggle To Finish A Side Project

The Struggle To Finish A Side Project

After a lot of technical and design work in the past month to get Wave Radio [https://waveradio.co] ready for launch, I'm finally launching the beta today. I started working on this project in August 2018 but progress completely stalled when I found some technical issues with the stack

Designing A Logo For A Side Project

When designing a logo I try to think of a few ideas and then quickly test them out and see how they feel when translated to a digital image. I'm not a designer so I don't go for any designs that are too extravagant. I try to keep it simple

Designing A Brand For A Side Project

This one of my favourite parts of any project. After picking a name, which took me way too long this time around, I start designing a style for the entire project. Elements of this style usually come up in the development process so I use pieces of the design I

Android Unsplash API Library

Android Unsplash API Library

Unsplash [http://unsplash.com], if you don’t know is an awesome free stock photos site. Find a photo you like and use it for anything you’d like. It’s a great resource for designers, developers, startups, and anyone that needs a nice photo. They launched their official API