January 2011
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The Tale of the Secret Crunchie
Oh man, do we have a story for you.
So there we were, Friday night, at the Crunchie Awards in San Francisco. As you may have heard, we were nominated for two awards—Best Social App and Best New Startup of 2010. Well, we didn’t win either of them, but we’re proud to have been nominated, and really happy for the great group of startups we were up against. You know, we didn’t win...
About this weekend's issues...
Hey everyone,
We just wanted to take a minute to address the brief downtime we experienced on Friday evening that delayed some messages throughout the weekend.
Here’s developer Brandon Keene with an elegant postmortem on the technical side of things:
Our hosting provider, Heroku, fixed a security vulnerability last week. In response a Heroku-affiliated vendor, RedisToGo, changed our...
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GroupMe for Android: Version 1.5
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last few months, it’s that Android users love Google Voice. Through your emails, tweets, comments on blog posts, and Android Market reviews, you’ve made it known. We hear you loud and clear. Google Voice.
Well, we’ve been working hard, and today, we’re putting out a new version of our amazing Android app. You can use...
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We're looking for a web designer!
Spread the news far and wide: GroupMe is looking for a web designer!
If this sounds like you:
You love to make pretty things. You love to whip up designs just because. You think about the way people interact with websites and mobile applications, and obsess over buttons, shades, and outlines. To you, a curve is not just a curve. It’s a meticulously calculated and thought-over bend in...
Dearest GroupMe Groupies...
2010 was an amazing year for us. It was just last May that Steve and I entered the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and whipped up a little prototype called groop.ly on the fantastic Twilio platform. We knew from the moment we started using it that we were onto something special. After a week, the product had already changed the way we communicate with our friends, families, and co-workers.
In...
Welcome to 2011
We’re going big in 2011. We’ve got some amazing things lined up, and we consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be assembling such a talented team. To kick off the new year, we’ve got some fantastic people joining GroupMe. We’d love to take a minute and introduce them!
Jeremy Schoenherr starts today as our iOS man. We lucked out - he’s one of the most talented...
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GroupMe on CNN!
Our co-founders Jared and Steve recently sat down with CNN’s Laurie Segall to talk about all things GroupMe. Check out the video below:
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Oh, and be sure to read and share the full CNN story here. Thanks!
