Trullo

@jongilman Thank you for the question, Jon. The most popular category thus far has been movies, I presume for two reasons: higher consumption frequency and significantly higher overlap between people. The overlap plays a role as items propagate through the network; people can easily review the movies they have seen that their friends already reviewed. Books are not too far behind. We had our share of surprises along the way, two come to mind: 1) Connecting email to Trullo turned out not to be as big of an ask as we had thought. People who work in tech, like you and I, often avoid these integrations, but from our beta testers, this has shown to be a convenient feature. 2) We thought people would be interested in movies and books, and were surprised to see purchases as the #1 requested category in surveys (though purchases worth talking about are still rarer and harder to search for). Also, there's a marked divide between genders on what they said they would like to see in Trullo - to the extent that looking at data without breaking it up by gender is quite misleading. Women placed household items and clothing on top, while men's top choice is electronics, with household items at the last (!) place.

@aboytsov cool stuff! Congrats on the launch and excited to see where you all take this!

@jongilman Thank you Jon!

Thanks @hariananth ! Most of it was written by hand and we relied on standard built-in iOS libraries for animations/transitions. Though, there were a few places where we used the Facebook POP library. If you haven’t checked it out, I would recommend it, just because of how very simple it is to use and set up.

@kanavarora very cool. have heard of pop but haven't used it yet... will check it out. thanks!

@aboytsov Such a gorgeous photo. I can't wait to visit this town.

@diklein It's something in between magical and surreal.