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building @gather_do native mac/ipad/iphone app. co-founder @mothercompany

Toronto

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Steven Yuen

3 months

This time a year ago, @ajaysabs and I were sewing full-time, fulfilling back-orders for our Backpack and Weekender products until May. If you want to experience a mega context switch, try switching from sewing to coding. A peek into our studio space.

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3 months

Gather Journal - Calendar WIP

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Flip through the days in your Gather Journal or jump to a specific day from the Calendar.

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Oftentimes, all we really wanted was a dumb typewriter. This is Gather for Mac, jumping to Today and toggling between Journal’s quick entry and focus mode for writing your thoughts. As always, a wip.

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2 months

Gather now works on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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Gather Journal: Add a new thought, search and delete with long-press. Default dark mode. Themes coming soon. The Journal is designed both for daily long-form writing, but also for those times when you have a thought and need to quickly put it somewhere.

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Use the Gather iOS, Mac and Chrome extensions to save links and visual inspiration. @ajaysabs has done some masterful work so that all processing of metadata happens locally on your device. We don’t call any external APIs. We are hoping this will be true of our AI features.

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Hosted a show and tell last night with @tommytrxnh . There’s something wonderful about having some friends together (old and new) in a cozy place to share things that are hard to express in words alone. A little sample of what these amazing creative people shared ↓

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today, it’s design engineer. tomorrow, it’s design engineer artist. until everyone’s davinci, renaissance man/woman.

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2 months

Right in the thick of working on the Library and share extensions. Should be out in our TestFlight release by mid-March.

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designing and manufacturing physical products at scale is hard. hosted a gathering last night with @devontoast for industrial designers, engineers and people building physical products and hardware. some incredibly talented people in this city. the goal of this group is to build…

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Getting ready to release the first iteration of the Gather Library this week to our TestFlight users. So many little things left to do and fix. We just created a new IG account because videos here are a disaster.

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Hey Toronto! If you’re part of the awesome Posts community by @read_cv and want to meet other fellow designers/creatives, we’re hosting a meetup tonight at 7pm. We have just a couple spots left. DM me if you’re interested!

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When @ajaysabs and I started @mothercompany nearly 15 years ago, the premise was to create a lifestyle brand and company in which software was just one of a collection of products - to build a company with deep competence in designing and making physical and digital products.

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We're in the era of modern software companies as lifestyle brands. We've passed the basic utility phase; now, it's about delivering an experience and forging an identity that resonates with the aspirations and values of your audience. UX has become a fashion statement, and…

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I admire people with that very special ability to take something complex and in real-time, without preparation are able to distill that complexity into something seemingly simple at multiple levels of abstraction, depending on their audience.

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Gather Library on Mac wip. Swipe between photos, videos and links, and pinch to zoom. Image source:

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Gather - Day 178 - WIP: Journal for writing and capturing your thoughts. A lot of software products are becoming lifestyle products. Productivity apps are digital stationary.

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the last time I went to china, I went with my parents. during the trip, they bought me a custom-made seal stone of my chinese name for my birthday. one of my favourite things. going to turn this into some kind of logo mark.

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Me and @ajaysabs getting our studio sorted out. Finally.

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today marks the 15th anniversary of @mothercompany . @ajaysabs and i founded the company on april 1st, 2009 while in university. we’ve been working on it full time ever since. we’ve been through many ups and many downs and the company has lived many different lives. we’re proud to…

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meeting twitter designers irl. all lovely people except for @mrbenjaminhoppe , a midtowner who said unspeakable things all night, then flees for montreal.

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Gather backstory: @ajaysabs and I started building Gather early in 2010, a little bit before the iPad first came out. We were always passionate about making software tools that didn't "feel" like software. Software that felt really personal. More like a well-designed lifestyle…

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@itsdpark been working on something like this @gather_do

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Feeling the need for green

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Who in Toronto is working on/interested in physical goods, fashion, industrial design, furniture, hardware? Reply or DM. Simmering on something. Software is hard. Hardware is even harder. So far, I know @devontoast , @CorinneBernett , @notabtin .

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If you’re interested in being part of our next one, shoot me a DM.

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Hosted a show and tell last night with @tommytrxnh . There’s something wonderful about having some friends together (old and new) in a cozy place to share things that are hard to express in words alone. A little sample of what these amazing creative people shared ↓

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view from the projection room at revue cinema for @newdemos_ . this lil window looks like an oven with something cooking inside, cuz that's exactly what was happening. a magical event in a magical place put on by @internetvin and @tommytrxnh .

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And to top it off, a beautiful performance by Tommy to end the night. This was the vibe of the event. The Toronto city lights shining outside. Grateful to be surrounded by these amazing good people.

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Gather Journal mockup from 2021. Will be incorporating some of the ideas here in some future releases. Photo in mockup was taken in Estonia after 10pm. Golden hour there during the summer is like 6 hours long. Magical place.

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Weekend in Montreal

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Beautiful product design and art @devontoast @gentlycarved @mikaelstaer @hussamfyi

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4 months

We’re going to start rolling out TestFlight invitations for @gather_do near the end of this month. Thank you to everyone that signed up so far for early access. Stay tuned.

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Thank you to everyone that has sent us messages about early access to @gather_do . We apologize if we haven’t gotten back to you yet. We’re actively working on a new process to onboard early access users. Stay tuned.

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Met @devontoast from Toronto last night. Cool to see what he is working on.

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If you want someone that really understands product and can provide extremely clear, balanced and nuanced feedback, @hussamfyi is your guy.

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Met with @steven_yuen and @ajaysabs to test out @gather_do . • It's fast—takes me less time to capture thoughts than other apps. • @steven_yuen is a skilled interviewer. I learned a ton seeing him work. • Building simple things is hard, but I'd bet on these two to nail it.

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Gather - Day 98 - We now have a working Share Extension for iPhone and iPad. You can easily add items to your Library and quickly tag them on the spot.

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We had incredible graphic designers, typographers, filmmakers @mandiramidha @murathan_co @KaisaPitsi @lychkel @internetvin

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Finally working on the brand identity for Gather. Doing some work on a new wordmark. Pretty bad with beziers, so fingers crossed it turns out.

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Some talented people in hardware, engineering, industrial design. @notabtin @Kenmabraham @ajaysabs @_kelindi

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Gather - Day 139 - Working gestures and animations for all platforms (including Mac). Working on making navigating between different parts of the app as fluid as possible.

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Hey Toronto! If you missed out on getting a ticket to New Demos, you still have the chance to join us afterwards for drinks and a large group walk. Meet us Jan 11 2024 outside @GelaSkins in Roncesvalles @ 9:15pm. Don’t come if you don’t wanna walk.

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@steveruizok The Suspense is killing me

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weekend in the algonquin forest

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Gather is a Notebook, a Journal, a Library. A Notebook, a Journal, a Library. These are not three seperate apps. This is one app.

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3 months

Just want to thank everyone in my dms who sent kind messages congratulating me on my Emmy win last night. Wild.

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Fashion designers and makers @CorinneBernett @KaisaPitsi @vgrec @ajaysabs

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We’re going to have both a Mac and iPhone version of Gather available for our initial TestFlight release. iPad version will be in a following release. Working on finishing touches before rolling out invitations. Thanks again to everyone who signed up!

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3 months

If you're in Toronto and signed up for early access to Gather, we're having a little gathering at our studio next Tuesday Feb 13 at 6pm to give people early TestFlight access. If you're interested, shoot me a DM!

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Flip through the days in your Gather Journal or jump to a specific day from the Calendar.

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2 months

If you go to the Releases section of the Gather website, you'll be able to see what we're working on in near real-time. The features, issues and bugs you see listed there are being pulled from the same database we use internally to plan/organize Gather.

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Our goal right now is to make @gather_do a one-time purchase and not subscription-based. This isn’t a super straightforward decision, and there are many implications (including how we incorporate AI-based features) but that is where our head is at right now.

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About a year ago, @ajaysabs and I were kicked out of our old studio space. Our studio's building was taken over by the city to be demolished for a new subway line. It was a truly unique and amazing building filled with crazy talented artists and creatives. The building was…

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Met this multi-talented engineer/designer from Toronto a month ago. He and @kenmabraham are working on some very cool stuff. Hardware and physical products. Give them a follow.

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This is a night stand. It’s the first in a line of home furnishings based on the Misumi HSF5 aluminum extrusion profile. Built with the same techniques and materials as industrial machinery found in factories all over the world. I think it’s beautiful and I hope you do too.

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Just a note as @ajaysabs and I start sending out Testflight invitations for @gather_do at the end of the month: we’ll be rolling out the major features one at a time rather than all at once, beginning with the Journal.

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always good going home to the mountains

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Have absolutely no doubt that @newdemos_ is going to be a success. @tommytrxnh has an infectious optimism and curiosity. Looking forward to building stuff together.

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grabbed coffee with @steven_yuen today on baldwin, shared some blue sky goals for both ourselves personally and also community stuff in toronto. super grateful to have met him.

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@aleksliving Not everyone. Many are humbled.

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View from the studio this morning. One of those grey Toronto days.

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I’m curious what OpenAI’s thought process was in naming “GPTs”. Given their current dominance, feels a little like a lost opportunity to establish the defacto vernacular for a new category in a more compelling/accessible way (like Apple did with “apps” and “podcasts”).

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@robjama @ajaysabs We roll with @internetvin and @tommytrxnh . This is West side Studio 2.

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Building products = 30% making the actual thing, 70% working on a bajillion little invisible things that people only ever notice if it doesn’t work or you did the job poorly.

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Work in progress for a much needed new @mothercompany website — Mother is the umbrella company for all our physical and digital products.

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@shaiyanhkhan @tommytrxnh Every event needs to have (West) or (East) in the title

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all I want is a streaming platform for those behind-the-scenes documentaries and director commentaries you used to get on dvds

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Nothing feels quite like creating a good routine of habits that are all just clicking together. Like your energy is being used in all the right ways at all the right times.

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bye vancouver. gonna miss you.

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The creative tension between having discipline, feeling a sense of urgency and giving your mind the time and space to breath

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@bolau_ if you want to join our toronto physical products group chat lemme know!

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@read_cv Cause some people have asked: Yes, this is in fact a real photo of an actual piece of paper. The rounded corners were indeed tricky being analogue and all 😅

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New studio in progress

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New products, wip

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@via_benjamin I like waking up and seeing Ben’s morning walk

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@shaiyanhkhan @trillhause_ @internetvin @tommytrxnh I think we need to chat man

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Haven't used social media for a couple weeks during the holidays. Brain literally feels different.

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Making stuff

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@WilburZhang really enjoyed your demo wilbur

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@lychkel @tommytrxnh @shaiyanhkhan @mandiramidha Thanks so much for coming! Looking forward to all the crazy things you’re gonna do in Toronto!

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There’s that adage that products can be painkillers or vitamins. For most of the 15 years I’ve been working with @ajaysabs , we’ve mostly been working on painkillers for enterprise. Now that we have stable ongoing sources of revenue, we decided to indulge ourselves and are now…

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@Canoopsy Annex Cat Rescue

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@ben_makes_stuff @levelsio Laptop table

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@asallen I’m also surprised more software teams don’t hire more animators and motion graphics artists/designers

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@aleksliving @framer @robably__ @DesignedByPaul @mattjumper @floguo whatup toronto designers 👋

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@lychkel Look forward to meeting you this week!

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9 months

Updated after much meandering.

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Our cat turned 1 today. Her name is Suvi. Or more commonly, Suvimeister (Master of Summer).

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lovely people: @kaisapitsi @hussamfyi @saleh_digital @devontoast @rosszurowski @noviachao @tommytrxnh @mikaelstaer

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We've updated the Timeline page on if you want to follow along with our development. The Roadmap shows at a more macro level what we are working on and where we're going, while the Changelog is a more granular log of the updates we are making day-to-day.

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Looks like a next big thing is going to be public person-to-person collabs.

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I love Autumn

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@ansonyuu @newdemos_ @internetvin @tommytrxnh @hud_zah @kentdebruin loved your demo anson

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@TakoTreba I’m down 😈

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8 months

Need to remind myself that when lots of people are zigging, it might be time to zag.

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@aliasaria Great presentation last night. Very interesting work.

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Gather - Day 84 - Let there be Light mode

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@ormanclark delivered by slack mention notification

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@trillhause_ @shaiyanhkhan @internetvin @tommytrxnh Wild

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@via_benjamin @interintellect_ @newdemos_ was good to meet you Benjamin. Will see if I can make it

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@internetvin @robjama @aliasaria @tarunsachdeva @TGUPJ Awesome demo

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(sorry couldn't help it)

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@_kelindi Thanks for bringing your project and cooking up that hot render.

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@darylginn When the letter "i" has the wrong dot on top.

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