Interesting work, have you thought about sending a photo to multiple folks at the same time?

Good job Nik!

I really like the Twitter profiles, definitely saves a lot of time. How do you plan to scale this service, as the quality of abstracts obviously depends on high quality contributors? What is in it for them?

Thanks!

At the moment we're focusing on the quality of the abstracts both for Twitter followers and the beta testers.

If there's enough demand to scale further a crowdsourced model might be a good way to scale, whereby "abstracters" could benefit from exposure and social capital it gets them, similar to Quora and other services.

+1

seems that HN won't allow him post more so he messaged me the answer:

--- yeah its funny, the first time i tried to make this was long time ago, here is the video 3 years old: https://vimeo.com/42313987

The idea was pretty spontaneous. I saw CZferro toys online and wanted to play with it so much. I ordered one and played with it and after a while i was thinking why couldnt this be something concrete. I loved the idea of translating something thats abstract in a visual sense to a concrete thing and back.

After that a clock came as a logical object, since it changes non stop.

So you contreted your idea by concreting time as an object without a solid susbstance. I guess you got it right. :)

Thank you for the explanation. ;)

there's a youtube link up there

Supposedly he felt like he needs to build something with ferrofluid the first time he saw that. There is a video of his first experiment somewhere, where the liquid was way less good looking but he managed to "fix" it over time and actually build the clock

Thanks for your relaying of the info. ;)

Great work!

Sweet, even phone calls would make sense in this case. Good work!

Thanks! High quality VoIP calls will work out of the box using our SDK. We are very excited to see what people will build using Layer.

Great job guys, really looking forward to see it in action.