Some important blog posts by Danilo Campos that seem to have been eaten by Hipmunk's blog history > I have a confession: At first, I didn’t get Hipmunk. I mean

Some important blog posts by Danilo Campos that seem to have been eaten by Hipmunk's blog history > I have a confession: At first, I didn’t get Hipmunk. I mean, I understood the merits of the interface, I respected the user focus of the site, all of that was awesome and drew me to the iPhone project... From a UX perspective, I’m really pleased with how the pinchable, stretchable, draggable time bars came out in the application. They feel really good to use. But from a development perspective, this is some of the stupidest, craziest code I’ve ever written in my life. Don’t ask me how I did it because it did it entirely the wrong way. Maybe I'll share once I figure out the non-stupid approach. https://web.archive.org/web/20110305185856/http://blog.hipmunk.com/hipmunk-for-iphone-post-mortem https://web.archive.org/web/20110305185856/http://blog.hipmu... > I published the post, submitted it to Hacker News and moved on with my night. I got some traffic, but that wasn’t the interesting bit. The interesting bit was an email the next morning from Hipmunk co-founder Adam Goldstein, thanking me for the mention and wondering if I would want to be considered to work on a future iPhone app. Uh, yes? But “considered” my ass – I was going to build it. Awesome side project. I’m incomplete without a side project. A couple of weeks later, I turned up at Hipmunk HQ, during their Startup School open house. I hung out for an hour, got to know everyone, then cornered Adam at the end. “What do I have to say to get you commit, right now, to putting me on your iPhone project?” An old sales tactic: ask for the sale. I spent my teen years in a Best Buy, selling Dyson vacuum cleaners. Adam was cagey, claiming he had a couple of other developers to talk to, so I decided to build some wireframes on spec that night to sway his decision. A couple of nights later he called me. They didn’t want this to be a side project for me. Adam made me a full-time offer and with minimal haggling, I accepted. https://web.archive.org/web/20110224183811/http://blog.hipmunk.com/hipmunk-for-iphoneipod-touch https://web.archive.org/web/20110224183811/http://blog.hipmu...