Mark Houghton

It’s refreshing to see a social network that puts an emphasis on building new friendships! I also like that you’re trying to tackle the issue of protecting identity while also letting people reveal their name once some trust has been built. It’s something that has had success in dating apps so it’s good to see it being applied for building new friendships too Nice work and congrats on the...

Hi Hunters and Makers 👋 Today I want to share voxu.fm - the audio guestbook I wish I'd had at my wedding! 💜 We received plenty advice from others while planning our wedding, but my favourite was to pause throughout the big day and take mental photographs of each moment. It's true that the day flies by, and now afterwards I cherish the things that bring back memories. Bouncing between so...

Hey Hunters and Makers! 👋 I'm Mark, the founder of SoonCall - the app for long distance friendship The journey to creating SoonCall has been an interesting one. I'm currently based in the UK, working as a mobile developer at Pocketworks. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work in software development as well as tech consultancy and research. Throughout these experiences, I've been...

Analytics can be great, but often people forget to actually *use* the data to inform their content strategy, or they get bogged down in vanity metrics Spending some time beforehand thinking about what I'd like to achieve makes a big difference when I then go on to look at the analytics