Toolbox App: From Hackathon to Production

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Prototype emerges from a 48-hour hackathon in 2015 built by a six-person team, ships a public 1.0 in 2016 and grows via internal dogfooding and a 20%-time program into a product that hits 1.5 million users today. Initial codebase is C++, then is rewritten from C++ to Kotlin, UI moves from an embedded browser to Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, and standard security reviews, pen testing and QA are added as the project transitions from side project to full-time product.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:03Internal Projects
3. 6:38Something crazy
4. 7:17Experimental features or products
5. 40:10Toolbox App Story

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