John Evans

Behold a Chat Developer

How One Becomes What One Ships

Preface

>This is an accounting, not a résumé. The group chat has quietly become the first tool people reach for when it's time to organise, and I'd rather explain plainly what I've built toward that than describe it modestly.

I.

Why I Am So Good

>Because chat is deceptively hard to get right, and I've spent the years other developers spend elsewhere getting it right. Because I'd rather build for a union organiser or a canvasser than for an engagement metric.

II.

Why I Make Such Good Chat Tools

>Three projects, so far, worth naming.

  • Chat Hackers

    Tools that turn a WhatsApp group into infrastructure for political organising. Built with Campaign Lab and a room full of hackday volunteers.

  • Spacetube

    A Matrix-based tool that lets separate groups open a channel to one another without leaving their own chat.

  • Virtual Bath

    The world's leading online multi-user bathing experience.

III.

Why I Am a Destiny

>The Ecco Homo parody is too tiring: chat is quickly becoming the infrastructure democratic groups run on, and they need tools that make it worth trusting.

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