Episode 39: Kate Ray

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Show Notes:

Prolific creator Kate Ray shares her experience of working on Crying in Public, a community-based map based in New York City. The project was one of her more technically complicated ones.

“Users create all of the problems even while they create all of the value.” 

Kate talked about:

  • getting labeled as “offensive content” by Facebook’s API
  • how she knew she was on the right path when designing the project
  • the unifying element for all her side projects
  • how she decided when to launch Crying in Public,
  • her working style