We’re making excellent progress in developing the app, but the work is… a lot. Currently, we only have a tiny group working on it, some full-time, some part-time, and we need more help if we’re going to meet the deadline of July 1 for 1.0-- and, realistically, to have a usable beta in the meantime to meet current demand.
We Need Your Help
Right now, we’re mostly looking for developers. Obviously, since Lemmy is an iOS app, devs should be proficient in Swift and SwiftUI and familiar with iOS app development. Additionally, we need devs proficient (or at least familiar) with:
- Swift - async/await
- Rust (to read Lemmy source code)
- Lemmy
- OpenAPI
- Automated tests - UI and unit testing
- Accessibility UX for Touch (focusing on deaf and blind users)
- International data policy compliance
Even if you only know some of this-or-that, you may be able to contribute, and we’d like to hear from you. You can comment here or come chat with us in our recruitment channel on Matrix.
Cheers!
The Mlem Team
Howdy, I’ve been a web app dev in Angular for the past 7 years. I don’t actually have much experience in what you’ve listed here, aside from very limited exposure to consuming an OpenAPI spec and the barest minimum of E2E tests with Cypress. However, I’m very familiar with TypeScript and Angular, and will be very sad at Apollo’s passing (I’m fairly confident that’s your inspiration, and you’re doing a great job so far), so I’m eager and willing to learn. If you think I could be of help, let me know! Otherwise, I’m happy to beta test as much as possible for you. Very impressed with everything so far.