We’ve got 2 new hacks to show you!

Happy Friday!

 We’ve got news of NEW for you. 

At Makeshift, we’re obsessed with not working on the wrong thing.

A big working-on-the-wrong-thing-for-too-long-trap we’ve noticed is that once you are working on something, anything, that thing starts to develop a gravity that draws you in. Simply because you are working on it, you think its important, and there’s lots to do. The danger is you end up working on something ‘because it’s the thing I’m working on’.

The antidote, of course, is to always have alternative things to work on in case your current project goes stale. Which is why, over the last two days we pitched each other over 20 ideas, and then collaboratively built four of them into products in under 24 hours.



We’re really excited to share these two very alpha apps with you, and we’d love your feedback on what we should do to turn them into proper software. (Two of them aren’t quite ready for primetime yet, so we’ll share them next week!!) 

Drum roll please…

Shhare.io



Sharing passwords for web services is an irritating and dangerous problem that a lot of teams have. So we solved it. Shhare.io lets you secretly ‘whisper’ passwords to team mates without storing or saving them anywhere on the web. A tiny service that’s massively useful. Perfect.

Start shharing your passwords here: shhare.io 

Rumbleroll.com



This is an iteration on a personal project that Jase had been working on for some time. Rumbleroll is simply a list of your favourite blogs, ordered by when they were last updated. There’s no unread count, and you have to visit the blog itself to read the articles. We like to think of it as a contribution to the ‘quiet internet’ - an antidote to all the A.D.D infused RSS readers out there.

Sign up here and check back everyday: rumbleroll.com

Thanks for reading! We love you this much.

 Now, it’s time to tell you about some other things we love…

Links We Love 

Read

The Thing I Didn’t Build

3 Myths of Digital Product Creation

Your app makes me fat

A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins 

Mozaa – A Colourful Combination Between Domino And Mosaic 

Entitled Tech Employee 

Play

Typeform makes asking questions easy, human & beautiful 

Cointicket is a service which allows you to create and sell tickets for your events and services. Sell for bitcoins, of course.

Silvrback: a hosted, markdown-powered blog combined with a bio page.

Mockup Phone: One click to wrap app screenshots in device mockup!

Key Me: Store your key now, you’ll thank yourself later!

What We’re Rocking Out To 

AlunaGeorge – Analyser
Outfit – Performance
Lorde – Royals
Parov Stelar - Best Of
Braids – December

 Where You Can Find Us

Silicon Throwabout: Casual Ultimate frisbee throwabout for startup people and friends. No experience necessary, just turn up and play! Monday, 2nd September. RSVP. 

GeekyScience: An exciting evening of learning and entertainment. Each month, experts in their field will come together to share what they know, related to an overarching scientific theme that will change each month. GeekyScience is curated and hosted by Helen Arney, award-winning comedian and physics graduate. The first GeekyScience is on September the 5th. Spend the evening learning in the comfort of Rich Mix in Shoreditch. Doors open at 7PM and the event will end at 10PM. More info.

Back to School Breakfast with Makeshift: Now, that we’re all back from our summer holidays, we’d like to invite you around for breakfast so we can share what we’ve been hacking together during these warm days and what we’ve got planned for the coming months as we throw on our scarves, jumpers and get ready for a new season. Tuesday, 24th September. RSVP.


That’s all from us this week. Have a great weekend!

Cheers,
The Makeshift Team