No. 8 · May 24, 2020

Austin Valleskey

Co-founder of Bonfire, a new social app to chat about your interests

Austin Valleskey is the co-founder of Bonfire, a new social app to chat about your interests. Where many other apps highlight follower and like counts, Bonfire does not. In fact, Bonfire doesn’t even show follower or like counts inside the app. Instead, you share with others inside the same “Camps” or topics.

Prior to co-founding Bonfire, Austin worked on Cash App and Gifs.com . He also created Impossible Rush, an iPhone game with 1,000,000+ downloads.

This is Austin’s temporary quarantine setup while he spends time back home with family. His typical “office” is actually various coffee shops around New York City.

Austin’s gear

10 items.

On the desk10

Computer 2017 15” MacBook Pro w/ a 2.9 GHz i7 On 64% of the desks we’ve published
Monitor 2020 12.9” iPad Pro (used as an external monitor) On 18% of the desks we’ve published
Accessories 2nd-Gen Apple Pencil
Headphones Apple AirPods Pro On 16% of the desks we’ve published
Tablet Makeshift iPad stand
Accessories Massive white board
Desk IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk
Chair Cheap yet functional IKEA chair
Phone Space Grey iPhone 11 Pro
Accessories Black Timbuk2 Tuck Pack Backpack