The story
Seven of us, and never once
all in the same room.
dymn is seven developers working across time zones. That sounds like a
constraint and is closer to a method: when one of us stops, another is starting, and
whatever we were arguing about gets a night to settle before anyone answers it. It also
means no single country's habits get to decide what normal looks like.
So the question we keep coming back to is not what a market wants. It is
what a person, anywhere, would actually want on a Tuesday morning. It turns out to be
almost the same thing everywhere.
dymn started with a bag. I travel most weeks, for work and not for work,
and for years I packed from memory and paid for it at the other end. A charger in the
wrong country. A coat for weather that never came. The problem was never that I had
forgotten how to pack. It was that packing is arithmetic and a forecast, and I was
doing it from feeling.
So the first app is the one I needed. The next one will belong to somebody
else on the team, or to somebody who described their Tuesday to us so precisely that we
could not stop thinking about it. That is the whole selection process, and we would
rather say it plainly than dress it up as a methodology.
Nobody here is building for a persona. We are seven people who use
phones, tablets, and laptops all day and have the same small irritations as everyone
else, and the shortest
route to a good app has been to fix one of ours properly rather than research one of
yours badly.
Support is answered by the people who wrote the software, not by a help
desk. Slower on a bad day. Better on every other one.
The name means always. It is the promise the software has to keep: that
it will still be there, still work the same way, and still not want anything from you.
dymn.io LLC is registered in Wyoming, in the United States. The people are
everywhere else.
Bill · founder
