Community is the backbone of any successful open source project. However, growing a community from zero is not easy. There’s over 7 billion people in the world, so how do we best reach the ones that share your values? Social media can be great, but at the same time, algorithms...
We recently built a retro arcade as an Alloverse Place — complete with Street Fighter II, shuffleboard noises, and the smell of popcorn. The key to this experience is of course the arcade machine itself — it’s an AlloApp, a piece of software emulating games from the 80s and 90s....
When we incorporated Alloverse a bit over two years ago, we figured that in addition to developing the platform, we would also attempt to rent it out as a virtual meeting platform for businesses as a way to (partly) finance operations. As it turns out, however, there are a lot...
I’ve been part of running two distributed startups over 9 years, plus 4 years of work across timezones at Spotify before then. The first few years were rough, and me and the orgs I were in fell into a lot of common pitfalls that took a long time to dig...
New year, new projects! But also where do you get started after a holiday break? AND keep yourself motivated? For us, two things were happening: We wanted to showcase what kinds of apps you as a developer can build on the Alloverse platform.Plus we wanted something fun to kick the...
