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Familiar with :apple_inc: Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of on ? :xmpp: 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁

This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.

Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂

Thanks for everyone's help spreading the word about this position! It's truly appreciated. We just started working with someone, and we're looking forward to advancing our app out of beta soon!

To anyone from the future who comes across this post and feels they fit the description, reach out and say hi anyway! It's always good to know who's out there 🙂

@liaizon An amazing number of boosts from the community! But it seems extremely difficult to find developers who are motivated to do this kind of open-source work who also have a good grasp of the iOS/Apple ecosystem.

We briefly worked with someone since this post, and they made some UI tweaks we'll roll out to the beta soon. But they have now moved to full-time work elsewhere.

Had a good meeting with a new dev last week, awaiting their initial estimate. Maybe they will be the one?! 🙂 Hope so!

@snikket_im reshared. This time #XMPP is still trending great.

@snikket_im Ah nice! xmpp needs this SOOOO MUCH! Go big!
Flutter might also be a good angle, hit all the platforms at once?

@fatboy Yes, certainly a cross-platform client is very tempting! Flutter and React Native are obvious choices for such a project.

However starting a new client project from scratch would be an ambitious step that we can't really justify right now. There are already decent clients that have years of development behind them. Our current goals are to give them a boost and the polish needed to be as bug-free and user-friendly as possible.

Explained a bit more at snikket.org/open-source/ 🙂

Snikket ChatOpen-source at SnikketWe are a not-for-profit organization working on a easy-to-use privacy-first messaging solution. But we are not alone - all this is only possible because we are part of a community with openness and collaboration at its core. Snikket is built from many open-source components, and we have a strong belief in working together with projects and contributing back to them wherever possible. And of course any Snikket-specific changes that don’t go back to the original project (e.