Chris Hendrixson

"A mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

My journey with @midjourney & moodboards continues to knock my socks completely off. I made these two wallpapers for Atomic Robot, a mobile & web dev shop in Cincy. They are old friends. They didn't ask for them, it's just practice for me. More details: linkedin.com/posts/chrishend…

For $300 you can buy 3 Apple HomePod Minis, triangulate them in a room and get a pretty great, full-room listening experience, much better than any $300 speaker setup I can think of. Am I wrong?

Damn about the #AdnanSyed hearing. Everything about the situation is sad, including that the state continues to dig their heels in. Et tu Ivan Bates? It's most sad for Hae Min Lee's family. I have a feeling and hope @Undisclosedpod is about to help us find Hae's true killer.

Designers, it’s time to rise up and start companies — this is paraphrased from Brian Chesky, CEO at Airbnb, and one of the only designer CEOs in the Fortune 500. Let’s go y’all.

So true.

This is my new podcast!

A nice, thoughtful gift to the design community — thank you @FonsMans

Any @Dodgers fans out there? Would you wear this crewneck sweatshirt? "LAD" is how the Dodgers show up on a scoreboard and the rectangular shape mimics the famous Dodger Stadium scoreboard. Is it cool?!

Today's daily is a little project I used @midjourney for. I asked it for an overhead cityscape with a ballpark in the center, in the style of a Pixar movie. This was probably the 12th iteration. I was curious to see what a Pixar movie about baseball would look like. The Pixar of baseball apps. It's a weird statement, isn't it? What does it even mean to be the Pixar of baseball? Well, we don't totally know yet. We aren't making movies, we're making mobile-based sports games for fans. Kind of like fantasy but not exactly. Learn more about gameball.fun. We do know we're next in a lineage of companies that bring design & art, technology, and business together to make extraordinary products for consumers. @Pixar, @Apple, @Disney, @duolingo, @Airbnb, Teenage Engineering. @linear too, but they're SaaS. I am especially personally inspired by Pixar. I love the movies, of course, as does my 2-year old son (Cars 1, 2, 3 on repeat), but what's most interesting is the way they operate. They do almost everything differently from other companies, mainly that they bring design & art to the same level as engineering and business. Few companies do this. It's a core part of our strategy. #buildinpublic #ai #midjourney

Fuel for the fundraise.

Trying to get connected to Boulder, CO startup folks — designers, engineers, investors (especially sports fans). Does anyone know anyone?

One of the most important (and perhaps provocative) decisions we're making with Gameball — gameball.fun — is our revenue model: "Freemium" or, in other words, "direct-to-fan." Anyone will be able to download and play Gameball for free with friends. Then, if you want, you can upgrade to Pro for $2.99 per month, unlocking the full Gameball experience with deeper stats, a unique & personalized experience, advanced Gameball options, and other exclusive benefits. The free version will not have ads and neither will the Pro version, of course. Imagine an ad-free experience in sports! It's hard isn't it? Not relying on an advertising model will allow us to have a direct relationship with fans, just like us. Most regular, non-tech people may not realize that when apps are free and have ads, you are not the customer. The customers are the companies buying ads; that's how the app maker makes money. With this kind of ad-based revenue model, there are some upsides for the user, mainly that they get a free experience. There are downsides, though. App makers are often driven to keep users in their apps as long as possible so they can serve more ads and therefore make more money. Today, so many of us are addicted to apps and, sadly, this is by design. We want to make money too. But we want to do it differently, in a simple, straightforward, direct transaction with fans. No gimmicks or tricks. We don't need to desperately try and keep users inside the app so we can serve more ads and make more money. Instead, we can just focus on creating an extraordinary experience. And if you want more of that experience, you can pay us directly and we'll give it to you. We don't sell customer data, we just make great products. #buildinpublic

Any @Wrexham_AFC ⚽ fans out there? My wife and I have been watching Welcome to Wrexham and loving it. As we're building out the Gameball app for baseball fans — gameball.fun — we think it would work great for soccer (*clears throat* football) fans too. What do you think? Also, how do I get this in front of @RMcElhenney and @VancityReynolds and co? I have a feeling that Rob, especially, would love this. #buildinpublic

Anybody know how to animate this in a fun way?

Eh pretty sure it was Mark Twain actually

As we seek out investors & advisors for Gameball — gameball.fun — we see an exciting opportunity for AI to help create a unique experience for fans. Years ago, while working on Cincy Lineup, we realized that fans loved and appreciated our handwritten push notifications. This surprised us; who loves push notifications!? But it makes sense. We'd do some research and come up with a unique, fan-centric backstory for each game. We were always stumped by how to scale this to all teams. That was before AI. #buildinpublic