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We ❤️ this guide to launching iOS and Mac apps. Great work by @Aleen@twitter.com! https://buff.ly/2P6FLDE

💬 Our Slack is growing! If you want to join the Lickability community, DM us your email. We’d love to have you.

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💻🙌 ICYMI: Swift Playgrounds isn’t just for the engineers on your team. @ThomasDeVuono@twitter.com explains why in this blog post.

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We have shirts! And sweatshirts! And tank tops! Visit our @cottonbureau@twitter.com shop to get yours.

http://shop.lickability.com

👨‍💻 Our Account Manager @ThomasDeVuono@twitter.com wrote about why learning Swift is valuable for everyone—not just engineers.

Read it here 👇

https://blog.lickability.com/swift-playgrounds-is-for-everyone-1b4ccf17a0b2

👀 Spotted: our best practices guide made it into @iOSDevWeekly@twitter.com!

Thanks @daveverwer@twitter.com ❤️

https://iosdevweekly.com/issues/415?#code

👋 We’re in this week’s Indie iOS Focus! Thanks for the love @cdbeshore@twitter.com ❤️ https://indieiosfocus.com/issues/231

✌️🎉 Want to come by our office? Now’s your chance: we’re having an Open House this Friday!

RSVP to come hang out with us. https://www.paperlesspost.com/flyer/go/L73D1LqS1GjmbgSP5AeK

🎉🏠 We’re having an Open House to celebrate 10 years of Lickability, and you’re invited.

Come by our place this Friday to see the office, meet the team, and chat with us. https://www.paperlesspost.com/flyer/go/L73D1LqS1GjmbgSP5AeK

📙 We write a lot of Swift here at Lickability, so we documented our best practices in a guide to use internally. And now it’s public!

Check it out here 👇
https://blog.lickability.com/our-swift-best-practices-514653fc35eb

Thanks for all your great questions and your decade of support!

Let’s do this again sometime. Logging off for now. 👋

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https://twitter.com/kellyquackquack/status/1153766484050661376?s=21

Thanks!

📈 Highest highs: Launching the first versions of @quotebookapp@twitter.com, @acceleratorapp@twitter.com, and @getpinpoint@twitter.com, every hire’s first day, and our new office.

📉 Lowest lows: Shuttering Quotebook, facing feelings of burnout, & building apps that never shipped.

https://twitter.com/JackLeonardme/status/1153762514691338240

🤩 Coolest part: Getting to play with and influence the design of apps that millions of people will use before they’re released.

😒 Most tedious: Protracted contract negotiations.

https://twitter.com/lavenderrabe/status/1153748282570694657?s=21

Our first big client was @meetup@twitter.com in 2015 which we landed through a previous working relationship.

Nowadays, clients come from lots of places, but a majority of our business is still trusted referrals from folks that know the quality of our work. 🤝

https://twitter.com/jefframes/status/1153748312094384129?s=21

Every. Single. Day. I’ve got it down to a science. 🥵

FYI: the name comes from a 2001 quote about the buttons in Mac OS X. See if you can track it down.

https://twitter.com/mliberatore/status/1153747732596756480?s=21

Never (or rarely) having to worry about cash flow or broken builds. 😅

https://twitter.com/segiddins/status/1153747607287500800?s=21

Our goal is to stay small and focus on quality. I hope we’ll have grown the team, shipped more apps we’re proud of, and stayed up to date on the latest tech. But most of all, that we’ll still treat our customers and employees with respect and care. ❤️

https://twitter.com/thomasdevuono/status/1153747204198322178?s=21

👅 Original logo: @amahnke@twitter.com
⭕️ Logomark: @sidoneill@twitter.com
🏢 Office: Megan Leet at @doitperf@twitter.com
👔 Shirt: @jcrew@twitter.com
📌 Pin: Gamut Pins
⌚️ Watch band: @apple@twitter.com Milanese Loop

https://twitter.com/cassiebirb/status/1153729159367147520?s=21

It’s been a privilege. Our partners at @newyorker@twitter.com, @theatlantic@twitter.com, and our former teammates at @nytimes@twitter.com helped us learn so much about how great journalism and storytelling can add texture & nuance to readers’ understanding of the world. More to come. 📰

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