The Syndicate Needs You. Join us, won’t you?
The Salt Mine Syndicate is a new idea in software development. Bring your skills to the table and show us you are worth your salt.
The syndicate is in alpha right now and has hand-picked the teams for our first few app releases. To be considered for a future team please contact us and tell us about your nunchuk skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills or something we might actually find useful.
In return for your services you’ll get profit shares, annual dividends, shout outs on our website, use of the project in your portfolio and maybe even a hug from your mom (heck if it's good enough you might get a hug from our moms).
Putting it all in motion. We know a lot of you have started to read the books and fiddle with objective C. Get through the book. Write those first lines of code. Let’s all get moving on this. Developers are responsible for taking screen mockups, wireframes and sitemaps and making it work. You’ll need strong collaboration skills (you know those design types ‘ohhhhh, move that one freaking pixel to the left’ and that’s what they noticed from across the room) and even better coding ninja skills.
One of our founders is a designer, so she knows that of which she speaks. The Graphic Designer / UI Designer role in the syndicate is to work on the following elements:
- UI for the App
- Icon for the App
- Logo for the App
- Marketing materials for the app:
- Screen Shots
- Twitter Background
- Other materials
Do you own a diamond studded cattle prod with your name engraved on it? We need you. And your prod. You don’t need formal skills, but you need to demonstrate to us your track record of being able to manage projects and personalities. You are responsible for keeping the team cohesive and motivated. Overseeing or creating the wireframes, sitemaps and timelines. Bonus points for use of Omniplan.
Do you have the best freakin’ idea of all time? Let’s build it! Submitting your idea to the syndicate gets you app profit shares and syndicate dividends, plus you can show everyone you know your precious gem once it launches.
No one knows about our apps unless we pimp them. The marketers on an app are responsible for monitoring and promoting feedback on the app store, twitter, blogs, facebook and other media outlets. You don’t have to have a marketing background as long as you are a real person who is passionate about what we’re doing and can keep calm and carry on in the face of the harshest of critics.
Got the scrilla and want to make a deala? Got the cabbage and want to take advattage? Want us to stop using out dated rap terms then try to make them rhyme with something else?
We never turn down cash. Whether you want to put some funds in to jump start a particular app or you want to put money into the syndicate and reap some dividends we want to talk to you. Someday we hope to line our underwear with benjamins to keep out the freezing winters of Salt Lake City. If this sounds like good insulation to you, let’s chat!
DUDE! I'm like the best designer, idea-hatcher, TPM you’ll ever meet.
Cool. We love those of you that can do multiple roles and encourage you to sign up for as many roles per app as you can competently handle. The more focused you are on a particular app the better we think it will do. We’d love to throw out some stats like: “Apps that have two or less people building them sell more than 48% over their more fractured team apps. In fact, apps where the designer or developer is also the marketer or TPM have a 3 times higher purchase rate.” But we don’t know yet, so we made those up.
Sign me up!
Hold yer horses there, cowboy. It’s a little more involved than that. We are aiming to build not only the best apps we can but to work with the best people we can. Right now we’ve hand picked the syndicate teams for our apps, in the future we’re opening it up to more people. To join us The Syndicate Sentinels will need to review your skills and portfolio. Probably a phone interview or two, wouldn’t hurt you to send us cupcakes from So Cupcake or Divas. Contact us, flatter us, show us your stuff and we’ll see if we’re a good fit. Make sure you understand the Questions and Answers we posted on our About Us page and take a few minutes to read through our definintions page so you know what you’re getting into.
