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.

EDIT: THIS ROUND OF RECRUITMENT IS NOW CLOSED

We want to thank the Mlem community for the unprecedented turnout! We have recruited some amazing developers and creatives to the Mlem Team, and we’re hard at work making a great app for everyone! Stay tuned for great things!

Cheers!

The Mlem Team

  • Dalek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    I’m not a dev but just wanted to say I appreciate all the work that has and will go into this.

  • Ghostalmedia@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • BrooklynManOPEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Good advice! Figma is what we’ve been using so our team can collaborate on the redesign of the app.

  • NuraSideNotes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • grizzledgrizzly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • BrooklynManOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      i think we have that handled for now, but thanks for the offer. Join the Mlem App chat on Matrix to keep up with the development, in case anything changes!

  • donikv@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • BrooklynManOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      glad to hear it! join our space on Matrix, and hop into the Mlem Recruitment room! (links above)

    • BrooklynManOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      sorry, edited the post to include the link. check it out!

  • borlax@lemmy.borlax.comEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I wish i had the ability to help! I’m in tech, but not much of a developer. Really appreciate all the work being done here and I will gladly keep beta testing via TestFlight!

  • literallyacat@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Not a developer but I will be happily beta testing/ sending in bug reports whenever I can. Looking forward to the app reaching full release!!

  • skulbuny@kbin.social
    41·
    2 years ago

    That license is… not appealing to contribute to. GPL or MIT or CC0 for me. Non-commercial licenses are the worst.

  • ASThome@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Do the owners of the repo accept PRs, or do you prefer us sign up/discuss somewhere?

    I have 4 years of iOS app development experience

    • BrooklynManOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Please hop on over to our Matrix space, and we can have a discussion about that! (link above)

  • jiggles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Great job on the project so far!

    I’m often wondering, and this seems like a good place to ask: As someone who has no experience with app development and generally can’t help with any of the actual engineering problems – is it still useful for you folks when people like me chime in with discussions and feature suggestions on the GitHub repo? Or are we more annoying than helping?

    I sometimes feel like it seems easy to just “flood” the place with tickets, but if nobody contributes with actual code solutions, what is it really for? If you know what I mean…

      • Mainline@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Might be known, but trying to click text links just collapses the post or comment. I’m not seeing a way in the app to click links.

        • BrooklynManOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          that’s a known issue, and we’re working on it!