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Tweets
- RT @rachel_reyn: 'Rachel you can't take 3 days to respond to a text and still expect the conversation to be relevant' *3 days later* 'Yes I…
- @rachel_reyn replying is now my full time job #IGotTimeForDat
- if only Instacode had to queue to sign up.. Github should buy this for $100M within the month. http://t.co/kUKmMIbd9N
- Downloaded Line, realized none of my friends use line, deleted line. This seems to be how most of my social app experiences go
- If @Instahood allows up voting and then we have a SoLoMo Hipster meta game #AnotherDayAnotherHipsterStartupBorn http://t.co/5lq2RpacdL
- RT @TUAW: Kickfolio puts iOS apps on the web for hands-on interaction http://t.co/SGzxyQ69RO [post]
- A #MegaBoss steals $33 million from Australian casino in 'Ocean's Eleven'-esque heist http://t.co/MuSBt1VbnO #HomegrownHollywood
- If you've always wanted to get into iOS app development, this could be your first step | Indiegogo http://t.co/L5ufcPpGPk
- Get some awesome UI PSD freebies @repixdesign http://t.co/lpaT9LEcHz
- Delver - a natural language interface to your app http://t.co/mI4kBkdz9W nice MVP, straight to the top of HN
- RT @rachel_reyn: Cheers to @RileyJamesAU for showing me the most bosssssest of all boss TV shows last night #blackmirror #ironictweeting
- iCloud ToS: Apple reserves the right to remove any content at any time that it feels is objectionable, without telling you #iMoralityCheck
- RT @mckayelliot: My mate's tattoo deserves a meet and greet with @blink182! Retweet if you agree! #Blink182 http://t.co/y7RXRSzM44
- how long was he standing there for this photo, or did he just keep wandering in and out of the bush all night… http://t.co/eSPEyPTPuG
- Two great articles for anyone considering building a consumer app and getting $$$ AQ: http://t.co/28WLklgWbt Ret: http://t.co/VJZRv0qsw2
- @EDowling preparing for a big weekend? #SilkRoadCelebrations
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Repositories
- Wordpress on Heroku. Runs on top of Nginx, PHP, and MySQL. Pretty magical/ Pushed Feb 08, 13
- AngularJS + Rails3 port of Javascript Projects Web App (demo)/ Pushed Sep 14, 12
- An example Rails 3.2 app with Devise, CanCan, and Twitter Bootstrap. With a tutorial.1 watcher / Pushed Jun 20, 12
- A really simple but powerful packaged personal site that has social integrations like tumblr, twitter, github, dribbble and instagram.1 watcher / Pushed Jun 12, 12
- RailsAdmin is a Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data958 forks / 3846 watchers / Pushed May 24, 13
- Lithium is a light, fast, and highly configurable framework for PHP 5.3+.211 forks / 777 watchers / Pushed May 22, 13
- Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!223 forks / 2695 watchers / Pushed May 20, 13
- A lightweight, flexible library for Facebook with support for OAuth authentication, the Graph and REST APIs, realtime updates, and test users.232 forks / 1891 watchers / Pushed May 19, 13
- A man-in-the-middle proxy for iOS and OS X device push connections18 forks / 89 watchers / Pushed May 09, 13
- An example Rails 3.2 app with Devise, CanCan, and Twitter Bootstrap. With a tutorial.196 forks / 438 watchers / Pushed Apr 30, 13
- Anonymous Crowdfunding. BitCoin. Tor. You figure it out.2 forks / 13 watchers / Pushed Apr 15, 13
- beginnings of an example app for an ember-data + firebase adapter14 watchers / Pushed Apr 13, 13
- Resque plugin to autoscale your workers on Heroku26 forks / 68 watchers / Pushed Mar 26, 13
- A really simple but powerful packaged personal site that has social integrations like twitter, github, dribbble, instagram, foursquare, tumblr, wordpress, last.fm, and much more...605 forks / 2394 watchers / Pushed Feb 24, 13
- Heroku buildpack: Wordpress on Heroku54 forks / 75 watchers / Pushed Feb 21, 13
- 4 watchers / Pushed Oct 13, 12
- AngularJS + Rails3 port of Javascript Projects Web App (demo)1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Sep 14, 12
- An example Rails 3.2 app with Devise, CanCan, and Twitter Bootstrap. With a tutorial.1 watcher / Pushed Jun 20, 12
- A really simple but powerful packaged personal site that has social integrations like tumblr, twitter, github, dribbble and instagram.1 watcher / Pushed Jun 12, 12
- A JavaScript plugin to create a Facebook friend selector28 forks / 93 watchers / Pushed Nov 28, 11
- Lithium PHP + MongoDB E-commerce showcase application6 forks / 41 watchers / Pushed Aug 25, 11
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Info
- Summary
Recent Experiences:
- Angel Cube Incubator 2012 (ggBet, Dragonfly)
- Startup Weekend Melbourne Winner (Mandarin Madness)
- Aurelius Digital Dinner Pitch (Mandarin Madness / Native Tongue)
- Startup Hackathon Melbourne Winner (BitBuySell - Bitcoin purchases via text messages)Current Tech Interests:
- Virtual Currencies
- BitCoin
- Virtual Currency Monetization
- Search Engine Optimization
- Natural Language Processing
- Semantic Search
- Marketplaces
- Online Identity ManagementSpecialties: CakePHP, Community Development, Marketing, Product Development, Virtual Currencies, SEO.Experience- May 2012 - PresentCo-Founder / Dragonflylist.com
Dragonfly is a marketplace that connects premium local freelancer designers and developers with digital agencies. We're dedicated to making the life of a freelancer easier so they can do less administration and more of the work they love. I handle customer developer, product development, vision, growth and everything else a startup requires.
- Jan 2011 - May 2012Founder & Developer / ggBet
ggBet.net is a fantasy betting platform. ggBet allows users to place bets on eSports such as Starcraft 2 using virtual currency. A risk free and legal alternative to online gambling.
- Apr 2011 - Apr 2012Business & Product Development / Third Man Online
Lead the product development of CruzCommand, a powerful network based seo product.
- Apr 2011 - Aug 2011Founder & Developer / Native Tongue
The Native Tongue team won Startup Weekend Melbourne in April 2011 with Mandarin Madness, an iphone game that makes learning Mandarin simple & easy. Native Tongue continues to develop language based learning games for iPhone & Android.
- Jun 2010 - Jan 2011Company Founder / Emspire eSports
Emspire eSports is a newly formed company focusing on developing the competitive gaming industry in Australia.
- Aug 2008 - Feb 2010Xbox 360 Administrator / Cybergamer
I managed the Xbox-360 side of Cybergamer.com.au. This involves assisting in the development of the website to improve the xbox-360 user experience, managing human resources, stimulating the growth of the community and pursuing marketing and sponsorship opportunities
I joined Cybergamer in August 2008 to launch the Xbox-360 side of cybergamer.com.au.
Education-
2008 - 2011RMIT UniversityBusiness: Entrepeneurship in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Corporate Venturing
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2006 - 2006Braemar CollegeHigh School in Music
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Interests:eSports, Virtual Currencies, Snowboarding, Tech.
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Posts
Dear Startups,
Quit asking for spec work. What is spec work you ask? Spec work is when you ask someone to create something for you or offer consultation for free with the potential for future work or employment. It’s when you say “we only need a few minutes of your time to put a design together,…
- Angel Cube Week 1
Angel Cube kicked off with a big day one at the head quarters of Flippa, Sitepoint, Learnable & Sitepoint. 4 Floors highlighting some of Melbourne’s most innovative startups, a great goal for all the Angel Cube companies.
It didn’t take long for the deconstruction of the Angel Cube startup’s to begin. Being day 1, no one really knew exactly what the other startup’s were doing. It didn’t take long before ggBet became dragon racing betting & Tony Mittlemark our first happy customer.
Lean canvas, product-market fit and MVP were quickly rammed home to everyone, the process of building a lean start up had already begun.
It was quite a shock to realise we had been building a product without any knowledge of whether product market fit had been achieved yet. Every mention of ‘key assumptions’ sent a shiver down my spine. I realised everything in my business had simply been assumed true and a product had been built upon those assumptions. There was some evidence that the assumption may have been correct, a 3rd party signed up, some users active on the site, but certainly not enough to be building out the product to the extent to which we had.
So the deconstruction process began. Development tools went down and it was back to the drawing board to test our assumption and engage in customer development.
The most interesting development was in what is an MVP. I was under the impression that we had built an MVP, although I called it a prototype. Our prototype was a cut down version of what we wanted our full application to be, and much closer to the full application than the prototype. Rather than pull down what we had, we are looking at ways to begin test MVP’s within our prototype to test new features prior to actually building them.
Some great learnings, and it’s only day 1.
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