Mike KriegerInterview
Co-founder of Instagram
Adapted from Mike Krieger's interview on Uses This, published 4 November 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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We just got new iMacs for our team -- 3.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM.
Startups are a twenty-four-hour endeavor, so on the go, I have an 11" 2010 MacBook Air with a Sprint 3G/4G card (though 4G is scarce in SF).
Speaking of the bike, I ride a Fuji Roubaix 3.0 to work, rain or shine.
I loved my iPhone 4, but it recently took a plunge from a shelf above my sink into a glass of water, and no amount of leaving it in rice could rescue it.
So I joined the ranks of those with mysterious October iPhone 4 catastrophes, and now am rocking a 4S...
I own a 3rd generation Kindle, though I don't have nearly as much time to read as I'd like.
Non-digital notes go straight into a Field Notes notebook.
Communication
Productivity
What ultimately won my heart was the Potion Factory's The Hit List, especially with the release of the iPhone app.
Browser
Coding & Development
It's by far the fastest machine I've ever owned; our compile time for Instagram went from 100 seconds to about 10 secs, and our Django unit tests run in an tenth the time as well.
Media
I'm Mike Krieger, and I'm the co-founder of Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing network.
I've settled on Rdio as my music service of choice - no one else is getting the social aspect even close to right.
Storage
Other
Lion's full-screen mode really shines on the Air, and it's fast enough for the occasional iOS development on the weekend.
Finally, all of our startup runs on Amazon EC2, which means we never have to visit data centers to install & maintain servers.
When I'm in XCode, I always have Accessorizer open alongside.