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San Francisco, CA Sr. Product Designer at Grubhub Joined about 9 years ago
He's also colorblind.
This is sad to hear. Circa has a brilliant team with an incredibly well designed product.
[The CEO] feels Circa struggled to find new investors because of the company’s focus on mobile (thus not generating millions of web pageviews) and working to retain current users via product enhancement at the expense of acquiring new users.
I think there's a good lesson here about raising venture capital. As soon as you take that money, you can no longer go about building your company however you want. It becomes about growth. You're expected to win the space, or go down trying.
With you on this one. I also disagree with the decision of flipping the dial so the marker moves counter-clockwise as the song progresses.
To their software team's credit, the problems they are solving are much more difficult.
It's the same guy. He expanded it for anyone to use, and even got some funding for it. Pretty rad. :)
Edit: Looks like Anand himself beat me to the punch!
The team behind this did a great little writeup about the entire process. The rest of their blog is worth checking out, too.
Check out what they did with their Dribbble page. Very cool.
I think the contrast of the text is too low, making it difficult to read, but really neat product.
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C'mon dude, everyone knows that Snapchat owns 10