Ryan Olson
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Ryan Olson
@ryanolsonk
Fighting brainrot & misaligned AI feeds
Cofounder @retrodotapp
Former Director of Engineering @instagram
Replying to @danielrakhthis tested all the way back in 2016/17 (and I'm sure more times again since then). Didn't fit with our hope of stories consumption being person-first rather than media-first. And was negative on metrics for all the reasons stated.- Poking into the top 100 iOS apps to find out what's under the hood: medium.com/@ryanolsonk/li…
- There were 23.6 million photos and videos shared to Retro in the past week. So that's pretty exciting!
- Is Apple using Swift? (not really, yet) medium.com/@ryanolsonk/is…
- My cofounder @nsharp17 gets a push notification for every new user who joins Retro. He is currently getting more than 2 push notifications per second and still doesn't want me to turn them off 😂
- 🧐 feel like I've seen this somewhere...Here's our first look at Google Photos' My Week feature ✅ Read and check out more screenshots at (along with some other changes) - androidauthority.com/google-photos-… #Google #Android
- Just pushed FLEX v2.0! Network debugging, system log viewing, and lots of other new features. github.com/Flipboard/FLEX… pic.x.com/KD5BaSzJIF
- The first thing I wrote for IGTV 😀IGTV is impressive. I think one will get used to vertical video quickly. Also I love the static when loading, genius UX @instagram
