Got it, it sounds like there is some issue on the healthcare.gov side. I work at Nava so feel free to email me as well. I totally understand your frustration, and though it sounds like we don't work on the components of healthcare.gov that are leaving you in the lurch just reach out and we can try and route your issue to the right people.
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Ello looks like it raised a seed round from Fresh Tracks Capital in Vermont:
"Ello.co is a beautiful, simple & transparent ad-free social network. Ello is designed with the end user in mind, not advertisers, promising “You are not a product”. The site is a collaboration between Paul Budnitz, the graphic design lab Berger & Föhr, and the technologists at Mode Set."
It looks to be a small VC firm founded in Vermont. I don't recognize the players off-hand but I do recognize the organizations they're affiliated with.
Vermont has a very small, active (activist, even) business community...they tend to like to grow things at home.
Thanks for this! This thought has been stewing in my head for a while too. Like, for example, cinemagraphs are a creative invention forced by the constraint of the GIF format (ie, tumblr and imgur's size limit means playing to GIF's strengths, like only animating regions of images).
We've also heard from working with Mr. Div and Patakk and the others that sometimes they do hacks to maximize their oomph. For Patakk, sometimes his geometries don't take up the full 500px so that he can pack more motion in a smaller area (and so for our art prints, he's filling out the frame more because that restriction isn't there). Exciting times!
That's great feedback. The first image is an actual example of a gif card at work (hovering plays the animation), and the third link is an explanation of lenticular printing. We should make it more clear though!
We'd love to offer manual upload of a sequence of images, we just don't want people to get the idea that they can upload 10 unique images. With lenticular sheets at this high framecount there's always some ghosting, so it's really for motion (gifs+video) or flipping between a couple distinct images (flip)
Thanks! Meshu was our first project together, and we built it on Python/Django. It's been really fun and kind of crazy to have two projects with holiday rushes at the same time :)
