Austin Blake

Building productivity apps for iOS in Salt Lake City, Utah

Issue #426 June 9, 2024

About

Austin Blake is the Founder and CEO of Mity, where they are building iOS apps that help you to get inspired to reach your goals. They are currently focused on an app called Stuff, a new to-do list for iPhone and iPad that focuses on being as simple as you need, while also being extremely powerful and flexible.

He was previously a Software Engineer at Apple.

Typically try to stand for 2-3 hours per day while working. The 58" Ergonofis “Cable Management Solution” keeps everything organized and looking clean underneath.

Photos

14 images

Interview

4 questions

› Austin Blake’s Workspace Tour

The huge oak desk has been an item on my wishlist forever - a huge space to work on top of and focus in on. The desk is 36x72 inches, and is a custom order from Oakywood. It’s about an inch thick of solid oak. I love the natural patterns across the top. It’s great to have such a large space to think and set things on when I have multiple things running at once.

› What is the most useful item in your workspace?

Light mode setup with the desk mat from DeltaHub, Magic Trackpad, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Mouse.

› How do you spark creativity?

I tried to setup my space in such a way that inspires me and gets me excited to work. Being in the space feels naturally creative for me. Other things looking through design inspirations I’ve collected, reviewing my goals, listening to music, and going on walks outside. Each of these things seem to get me jazzed about what I’m working on and get me in the zone to build cool stuff.

› What does your typical day look like?

I work as a Product Manager during the day, then work at nights to build out Stuff, the new to-do list app for iPhone and iPad.