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Kyle Barber

@ikbarber

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Founder - Design @getairchat @facebook @tinder

San Francisco, CA

https://t.co/pLRShKXBb9

Joined July 2011

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

3 months

As a solo designer, I'm constantly getting stuck. Feedback from experienced designers is a huge advantage, something Meta has perfected with design crits. Today I'm testing a side project to make that available to anyone, a design crit in your pocket.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

3 months

Config 2023: we don’t need PMs Config 2024: a PM + AI is going to take your job

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 months

Design Twitter - would love to have you on Design Airchat - leave a comment and I’ll make sure you’re added :)

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Ridd 🤿

5 months

This is when it'll get really fun

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Kyle Barber

9 years

Immediately after a 6-1, 6-1 third round, @vika7 is back to work.

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Kyle Barber

6 months

@TheHoopHerald Dude dunked on me twice in cif playoffs, still haven’t recovered

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Kyle Barber

5 months

This is still so surreal @WIRED

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Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession

It’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies. What could go wrong?

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 months

Spent the last 5+ years building every version of an async voice app with @0xc0dedead & @BrianNorgard So thankful that this version of Airchat was enough fun to earn your time for even a day or two ❤️

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

1 year

@soren_iverson Having designed the Tinder Gold paywalls, I’m disappointed in myself for not thinking of this

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 years

Been doing this as long as I can remember, never felt like work

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

3 months

Zenly is prob the only app to come close to this level of consumer product design

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Jeremy Blaze

3 months

I still can't get Path out of my head. Absolute classic.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 months

Me to me after I sleep on a new design for Airchat

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

2 months

Want to make $ giving design feedback on the side? Sent out over 100 design kits this week, if I missed you in the first round, would love to fix that - Thanks so much for the support!

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Kyle Barber

3 months

As a solo designer, I'm constantly getting stuck. Feedback from experienced designers is a huge advantage, something Meta has perfected with design crits. Today I'm testing a side project to make that available to anyone, a design crit in your pocket.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 months

The Tesla design team is so skilled 👏

@SawyerMerritt

Sawyer Merritt

5 months

Tesla has released a preview of their upcoming ride-hailing app:

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Kyle Barber

8 months

One of the best design tool launches I've seen 👏 - feels like the future

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@createwithplay

8 months

Its finally here—a breakthrough way to share native iOS prototypes. You can now share native prototypes with Apple App Clips—the easiest, fastest, highest quality way for people to experience your work instantly on their iPhone. No web simulations. No app installs. No friction.

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Kyle Barber

6 months

@jk3rd_ @TheHoopHerald We’re all in a support group on Facebook

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 months

24hr turnaround on dark mode thanks to @veergadodia - one of the best iOS developers I’ve ever worked with. Let us know if we missed anything!

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 years

Most PMs don’t even have Sketch installed

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

3 months

I've tried 10 versions of this idea, all trying to make getting unstuck cheaper and faster. If you're a designer looking to get paid to give design feedback, I'd love to chat.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

10 months

Airchat design meetings with chef @BrianNorgard

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Kyle Barber

5 months

@OhmaTokita2ndAc @GSWarriorsHouse Can’t get swept if you miss the playoffs almost half the seasons you’re in the league 🤔

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Kyle Barber

3 months

@soren_iverson Steve would have loved this

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Kyle Barber

5 months

@Scobleizer @WIRED This is the most incredible compliment, thank you Robert

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

5 years

@Erichards38 @stoolpresidente

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

6 years

I remember as a teenager @john and @sammy did the same for me, changed my career. They both often went out of their way to help and give advice, with nothing in return.

@dtrinh

Danny Trinh

6 years

Cold emailing @dburka when I was 15 in North Carolina changed my career and life trajectory. Agree: most young people find it a little challenging to reach out to people they respect. Guess what? It's free. (Just be mindful of their time and don't be a jackass).

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Kyle Barber

6 months

Current trend: - tell great story via landing page - hype product on twitter with launch vid - collect $ before showing product - ship 10% of what the customer expected Evergreen: - build something people want - base of free users finding value daily - offer extra

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Jason Fried

6 months

Minimum Buyable Product > Minimum Viable Product

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Kyle Barber

5 years

@judyseto ❤️

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

10 months

We’ve launched a simplified experience on @getairchat this week - finding great content like this should be much easier now - let me know what you think!

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Naval

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The Unscheduled Life Listen on the web: Chat in the room: Transcript in next tweet.

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Kyle Barber

5 months

@rrhoover Old Airchat was designed to be audio only, transcription tech improving so quickly made this new design possible

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

6 years

@rrhoover The guy who manages the official @jmj account

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

1 year

Been working on this for a long time, excited to start sharing

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

10 years

http://t.co/kepSEl7WQE

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

1 year

My agency client after 3 months of requested revisions

@elonmusk

Elon Musk

1 year

We need to make this interface far more beautiful

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Kyle Barber

9 years

Welcome back @vika7 #champion

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

1 year

@andruyeung Modesto, CA

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

6 years

Congrats to my mentor @ARudmann on reaching the top yet again. Every great product from Tinder over the last 5 years has been because of him, lucky I get to learn from the worlds best every day.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

11 years

@TmarTn I'd rather go wait in line all day at the DMV for no reason rather than watch a Sparks game

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

8 years

@sammy @john new app looks so clean, great job guys!

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

7 years

Really easy to let your pride get in the way of creating a great product. The best designers I know don't care about who gets the credit.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

6 years

Light work 💼

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victoria azarenka

6 years

Into round ✌️ at @AbiertoTelcel !

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Kyle Barber

3 months

@mutablejoe @IndianIdle Imagine soccer or basketball but when someone scored, the opponent could just say “no actually I scored”, and by the rules they’d be right

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

21 days

@gregisenberg What happens to the 99.5% of business school students who aren’t interested in founding a tech startup

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

1 year

Best design podcast I’ve seen

@joindiveclub

Dive Club 🤿

1 year

As we go deep with all these talented designers like @danmall , @graceongrid , @FonsMans etc... We are learning a lot 🤯 So we wanted to pause and share 5 key takeaways from Season 2 of Deep Dives 🤿 Watch below or stream on Youtube, Spotify or iTunes 👇

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

3 months

@HipCityReg My designs are making the model worse

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

8 years

First time in months I've felt healthy enough to put in a late night at work. Modern medicine is incredible, happy to be back

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

4 years

It’s incredibly cheap and easy to make a flavor of the month product that tech twitter goes crazy over. It becomes very time consuming and expensive to make a product people outside that bubble use.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

10 years

11 miles of hiking just for the selfie #shots http://t.co/xnnOr078us

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

8 years

Glad I ditched the screws drilled into my skull... Surgery went perfect, ready to start training for the NBA again

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Kyle Barber

11 months

How @getairchat is designed - devs/design should work together constantly to create their shared deliverable, the product in users hands

@karrisaarinen

Karri Saarinen

11 months

Primer on how we design at @linear : The main point is that the design is only a reference, never any kind of deliverable itself, so the way it's constructed doesn't really matter. 1. We screenshot the app and design on top of 2. Simple design system that has mostly colors,

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Kyle Barber

7 years

You can talk all day about something you believe, but unless you go all in and take action on that intuition, you’re no different than the people who were doubting...

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Kyle Barber

5 months

Thanks so much for the review @itspatmorgan

@itspatmorgan

Patrick Morgan

5 months

At first glance, @getairchat may seem like any other voice chat app, but promoting voice transcripts to center stage sets it apart. Let's take a closer look. The Surprising Power of Voice-to-Text Transcription In most voice-led apps, content starts and ends as audio. Airchat

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

4 years

Being able to take suggestions & negative feedback well can be the difference between winning and losing, both in sports and tech

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Kyle Barber

6 years

Working with @BrianNorgard is like being on the same team as Lebron. Makes everyone around him better, constantly wins, and everyone knows they are getting to learn from the best in the world.

@BrianNorgard

Norgard

6 years

It was a pleasure building Top Picks with our team I find it especially gratifying how @ikbarber and team continued to improve the product day-after-day despite many UX challenges Congrats team Tinder once again on another fantastic feature for our customers 🔥🔥🔥

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

7 years

Once a week I walk through Beverly Hills to remind myself that I ain't shit

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

6 years

@heyiboy @dtrinh How else can I signal to my haters that I’m attending their funeral every day?

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Kyle Barber

4 years

I never use Twitter to push my thoughts, but goddamn. Assume racism is everywhere, every day. Acting like it's not an issue because you live costal and don't think it's happening here isn't enough anymore... We need to do a better job educating our generation and the next

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Kyle Barber

4 years

For the past ~10 years, it’s been easy to take the “Facebook will copy/buy up anything good” attitude. Tinder proved that wrong (FB Dating), followed by TikTok (Lasso/Loops), and now we are seeing an explosion of consumer creativity and optimism. Can’t wait for more to follow.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

3 years

@konnerdemattio @iLoveBBall200 @SportsCenter Hell of a pull from the archives here 😂

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Kyle Barber

5 months

@liuyuxxd @0xSigil I’m slowly becoming more extroverted because of Airchat, talking about things I like online makes it easier to do it irl 😅

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

7 years

If you’ve been lucky enough to see @cadearsley at work, this comes as no surprise. World class designer and founder. Congrats to you and the team, excited to see what’s next.

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@ikbarber

Kyle Barber

15 days

Never seen this mentioned, but @seanrad is also one of the best designers I have ever seen. Many late nights where we’d be sharing the same computer, co-designing products in Sketch, and his work was ALWAYS better than mine.

@HarryStebbings

Harry Stebbings

@HarryStebbings

15 days

This man is responsible for connecting more people than anyone else in human history. The numbers behind Tinder under @Seanrad are INSANE: 💕 50 billion matches 🤯 1 billion swipes PER DAY 🌎 Top grossing app in 99 Countries 💵 Tinder is a fricking cash machine My 6 key

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Kyle Barber

9 years

Shout out to my surgeon who said I would never dunk again... #10ftnext

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Kyle Barber

9 years

Was able to run today for the first time in 9 weeks. Felt incredible #smallsteps

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Kyle Barber

8 years

Waking up able to use my arms and legs is the most incredible feeling still... Changes my attitude around every morning

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Kyle Barber

4 years

One of the greatest products all time don’t @ me

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Kyle Barber

7 years

Spent the last 12 months deleting thousands of screens for a side project, each version something was wrong... Finally got it right today.

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Kyle Barber

6 years

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Kyle Barber

4 years

The present and future is female, and it’s about time.

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5 years

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Kyle Barber

9 years

Best meeting of my life. Looking forward to big things @llcoolj

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Kyle Barber

5 years

“Whatever you did is ancient history, it’s always about what you’re doing or what you’re planning to do.” @tfadell

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Kyle Barber

9 years

Hello New York http://t.co/1sDzpT6h5n

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Kyle Barber

1 year

@namyakhann A designer who can create icons, prototype interactions, create the style guide, design the UX, copywrite and of course put together UI - at larger companies each of these can be an individual position

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Kyle Barber

5 years

@jmj @Besvinick was always my #1 , genuinely cares, something you can’t really fake

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Kyle Barber

6 years

🔥🔥🔥

@BorsaHQ

Earnings Call App

6 years

$MTCH Tinder Average Subscribers were 4.3 million in Q4 2018, increasing 233,000 sequentially and 1.2 million year-over-year

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Kyle Barber

6 months

Crazy how quick we went from “the greatest tech product ever” to nobody mentioning it in weeks. How is any consumer product supposed to gain footing when we just accelerate to the next thing on our feed every day.

@ilyamiskov

Ilya Miskov

6 months

I remember everyone talking about Apple Vision Pro like crazy. Where are those people now?

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Kyle Barber

11 years

My dad just walked an entire mile after 9 brain surgeries, literally doubling his personal best at the Heart/Stroke Walk… Yeah, I'm proud.

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Kyle Barber

8 years

@vika7 ❤️

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Kyle Barber

6 years

@BrianNorgard Can always count on Hawaii Jeff to pull something special out of the bag.

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Kyle Barber

7 years

@jmj Darius Miles... Product of the 618

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Kyle Barber

11 years

@landr0id @gabe_k if this tweet gets 1000 favorites I'll ddos Gabe

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Kyle Barber

10 years

@sammy just saw this on the LA Hacks schedule, looking forward to it!! http://t.co/LNamI0uOos

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Kyle Barber

4 years

Can’t think of a better opportunity to grow something new, or a better list of people to learn from. Would be banging on Jeff’s door if I was starting something new

@jmj

Jeff Morris Jr.

4 years

Excited to finally share what we've been building this summer at @ChapterOne 🌴

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Kyle Barber

8 years

Ran through Zion with my fam, still stoked I'm able to do this stuff

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Kyle Barber

3 years

@jmj I think it’s more the risk associated with trying something new vs copying what data suggests is working. No shortage of new ideas being tinkered with at these companies imo, but the products that get shipped are just the lowest risk

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Kyle Barber

7 years

@realdonaldtrump save LiAngelo bruh

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Kyle Barber

8 years

Incredibly lucky to be surrounded by good people/friends… Nothing is more valuable to me than that.

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Kyle Barber

6 years

@chapterone

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@nikitabier IG has been the #1 dating app since 2018 imo, pandemic just held off the inevitable

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Kyle Barber

3 months

@zander_supafast This is the best design video I’ve ever seen, well done

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Kyle Barber

9 months

@MichaelFilipiuk @ilyamiskov X is great for more extroverted types/already senior designers able to constantly post things other than their work to hold a following. A spot that focuses on just the work has always been helpful for new/upcoming designers

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Kyle Barber

3 years

After 15 years of playing the O3 speed port tour, I finally upgraded sticks and y’all are done for… a thread

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Kyle Barber

6 years

@dtrinh @jmj 95% of the time I feel attacked

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Kyle Barber

5 years

@TomBalawejder @QasimRashid

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Kyle Barber

3 years

First under par round today, 5 years ago my best score was 120

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3 years

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Kyle Barber

5 years

@heyiboy @adilrhymes bring back tinder moments

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Kyle Barber

3 months

@r0unak “This design sucks be better”

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Kyle Barber

8 years

Throwback to the first app I designed back in 2009... Was using my friends MacBook and a broken iPod Touch

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Kyle Barber

5 months

@kumareth @0xc0dedead @BrianNorgard Not at all, but people are having fun because of your work Kumar and I think that’s really nice

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