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Y Combinator is hiring a Batch Director. This role reports to the CEO and works directly with partners, founders, and YC employees to execute and improve the batch. There are few job that give you this level of insight…

We are 3 guys who are scaling like crazy and we need your help. Want a job? Email us at Founders@socialcam.com Thanks!

Badges in UISegmentedControl UISegmentedControl does not support badges. Unlike UITabBar (UITabBarItem) there is no method to add a red badge with a number indicating activity. And UISegmentedControl does not accept…

We recently added a popular tab to Socialcam and we were not sure what it should look like. We wanted to get something working and in front of users quickly, and then be able to make changes and test the results. So we…

Several months ago, we added live video filters to Socialcam. Per pixel modification and capture of video in real time is hard, and takes a lot of optimization to work well on older devices pre iOS 5. The real…

Phones are great! But the OS is buggy! Apple moves quickly. With every release of Socialcam, we have to make changes to work around OS bugs. On version 4.3, the system image picker had a tendency to crash! We had to…

Making an iOS tableview scroll well is not easy. UITableViewCell is a subclass UIView. If you create a complex tableview with UIKit, however, by adding subview hierarchies to tableview cells, scrolling grinds to a halt.…

We've tried it. It is nice to be able to position UI elements by hand. When we started Socialcam, we used IB for our core views. However, as we added more complex UI elements that required layout code, we started to…

Hello, Recently at Socialcam we have seen a glimpse of what happens when you make video capture simple enough for the everyday person. Here's a short story: One of our users is a middle aged used car salesman in the…

Hello, For the first time ever there are over 100 million people in America with video cameras in their pockets 24/7. Yet, when you ask your friend or neighbor how to share a video from their smartphone, the most common…