We’re making excellent progress in developing the app, but the work is… a lot. Currently, we only have a tiny group working on it, some full-time, some part-time, and we need more help if we’re going to meet the deadline of July 1 for 1.0-- and, realistically, to have a usable beta in the meantime to meet current demand.
We Need Your Help
Right now, we’re mostly looking for developers. Obviously, since Lemmy is an iOS app, devs should be proficient in Swift and SwiftUI and familiar with iOS app development. Additionally, we need devs proficient (or at least familiar) with:
- Swift - async/await
- Rust (to read Lemmy source code)
- Lemmy
- OpenAPI
- Automated tests - UI and unit testing
- Accessibility UX for Touch (focusing on deaf and blind users)
- International data policy compliance
Even if you only know some of this-or-that, you may be able to contribute, and we’d like to hear from you. You can comment here or come chat with us in our recruitment channel on Matrix.
Cheers!
The Mlem Team
I know you said you’re focused on development, but I have a long career in technical documentation and marketing communications. Would love to contribute if you need help with keeping externally-facing things spelled and communicated correctly.
I’m not a mobile dev (python/backend), but as a huge fan of Apollo, I’m loving how you’re designing the app. You guys got this! And maybe I’ll be working swift soon and can help out.
Experience designer here. Run a design team for a large ecommerce company, but I’m happy to help with stuff on the side.
The fact that you’re using a lot of standard iOS components means that it would be fast to mockup UI with Apple’s figma component libraries.
Good advice! Figma is what we’ve been using so our team can collaborate on the redesign of the app.
Is there a way to use this on iOS 15?
Cool! I was an iOS developer for 3 years. I’m good with Rx/Combine, know async/await. Now I do iOS dev as a hobby and would like to help out on the side if needed.
glad to hear it! join our space on Matrix, and hop into the Mlem Recruitment room! (links above)
Howdy, I’ve been a web app dev in Angular for the past 7 years. I don’t actually have much experience in what you’ve listed here, aside from very limited exposure to consuming an OpenAPI spec and the barest minimum of E2E tests with Cypress. However, I’m very familiar with TypeScript and Angular, and will be very sad at Apollo’s passing (I’m fairly confident that’s your inspiration, and you’re doing a great job so far), so I’m eager and willing to learn. If you think I could be of help, let me know! Otherwise, I’m happy to beta test as much as possible for you. Very impressed with everything so far.
Windows dev primarily, but absolutely engaged to test the hell out of this app! Here to make it the best we can
Well this is exciting, can’t wait to see what comes out of it. If I knew Swift I’d love to contribute. Best of luck!
You can always help by beta testing–the link is here if you’re interested
