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

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

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You’re welcome!

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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.

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

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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!

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You can always help by beta testing–the link is here if you’re interested

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Well now thats perfect, gonna do so!

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Cool! Where’s the repo?

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

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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.

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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!

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