Always looking for good people, so if you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: marie@hopster.tv.
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Kids in the UK watch 6bn hours of TV every year. At Hopster, we’re trying to make that time better. Our first product is a beautiful iPad app for kids aged 2-6, which combines gorgeous TV shows with contextual learning games - and we plan to go much further. Launched in December, we have had great reviews from parents so far plus thousands and thousands of MAUs. Oh, and we have thousands of paying customers.
We're a funded London-based start-up, launched in late 2013. Our team includes people from a range of backgrounds (from start-ups to non-profits to corporates), all with a solid track record of developing and delivering innovative and successful products to consumer audiences.
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As usual, always looking for good people. The team is broadly split into development, product, marketing/growth and creative (and creative actually means creative, incl. animation, characters, voice acting etc.!).
If you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: marie@hopster.tv.
I LOVE Topkapı Palace, it's gorgeous. Have you been?
I had an amazing tour guide who, among many other things, explained how everything had two layers of security (at least) built in. For instance, eunuchs in the Harem were always black just in case the castration was botched - that way, you could still tell the child was not the Sultan's. A bit more here: http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/the-harem-and-th...
Nice idea, but I do take a bit of an issue with ideas like these. More often than not, they serve as a fig leaf and give the people using them a false sense of comfort and achievement.
There's a reason sports programming exists, and a certain level of intensity, planning and rotation is necessary for results.
A better thing to follow for at least a modicum of impact is http://www.7-min.com
Anyone who's done any amount of exercise worth the designation will have to do a few rounds of this to actually get into heavy breathing territory, but it's a (structured) start!
Thanks for your comments and the link to 7-min.com which looks like a very nice program.
I understand your concern of the false sense of achievement and that isn't my intent. I know several people who could not complete the 7 min workout no matter what they tried, and my app is supposed to be a lower level exercise program. It's still in development but the plan is for the app to be "smart" and gradually increase the workouts as the user is ready.
Hmm, if they are, they're elaborately faking to the extent of making up sources in the footer. I'll take a look tonight if there is a CCTV camera where they claim there is and let you know!
It's not so much a theory as a collection of vignettes based on one individual's situation in their company.
I do agree with getting good at ping pong or whatever the office choice of communal activity is.
Playing foosball / Mario Kart / basketball with the whole gang in various roles definitely helped with gaining acceptance and enabling better dialogue during working hours - guess what, it's called team building and spans across sexes.
HTTPS giving me troubles, e.g. clicking through on footer links from HN: http://imgur.com/59cQ7G3
On an unrelated note (careful, Inception-style sentence coming up, and apologies if this has been mentioned before/isn't helpful), most of the footer links in the footer of the pages linked to in the footer of news.ycombinator.com lead to 404. Id est, click on a link in the footer, then click on a link in the footer of the page you just clicked to, 404 hey presto.
The article makes a few good, if basic, points. But, dear me, the English is appalling. Reads like someone let loose a wild babelfish.
That aside, as Winston Churchill said (or rather, as Nazi propaganda claimed he said even though he never did - which is quite apt in this context), "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself."
In fact most of the articles on that site are translated from that Russian community blog without any reference to the original authors, the design and structure are also copied and in fact that's not the first English clon of habrahabr.
In fact it's a good thing that someone translates those posts, as habrahabr is a really big community and sometimes there are articles which provide unique information that can't be found in English. But at least they should reference original authors and mark the posts as translation.
Yeah, I assumed as much but didn't make the time to investigate. Shame to hear that it's without attribution, and thanks for doing the work to find the original!
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Always looking for good people, so if you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: marie@hopster.tv.
Kids in the UK watch 6bn hours of TV every year. At Hopster, we’re trying to make that time better. Our first product is a beautiful iPad app for kids aged 2-6, which combines gorgeous TV shows with contextual learning games - and we plan to go much further. Launched in December, we have had great reviews from parents so far plus thousands and thousands of MAUs. Oh, and we have thousands of paying customers.We're a funded London-based start-up, launched in late 2013. Our team includes people from a range of backgrounds (from start-ups to non-profits to corporates), all with a solid track record of developing and delivering innovative and successful products to consumer audiences.
TECH Front-end: Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery Back-end: Python, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Endpoints & Storage iOS App: Cocos2d-x, C++, Objective-CMARKETING WordPress, Localytics/Google Analytics, Mailchimp/Mandrill, Google Experiments/Unbounce/Optimizely, Buffer, SocialBro/Sprout, SensorTower/AppAnnie
TEAM Slack, Trello, Jira, bitbucket, Google Docs, Google Hangouts, Friday curry sessions, climbing wall & go kart track
As usual, always looking for good people. The team is broadly split into development, product, marketing/growth and creative (and creative actually means creative, incl. animation, characters, voice acting etc.!).If you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: marie@hopster.tv.