About Me
James Smith, British entrepreneur and engineer based in San Francisco.
I'm the co-founder of Bugsnag, a popular
real-time crash detection service for mobile and web applications, with
Simon Maynard.
I previously led the product team as CTO of
Heyzap, helping scale the company to over 8 million users.
In the past, I co-founded and built Sponsor-Me, the first social donation
application for the Facebook platform and later created WeGot.tv, a media
discovery app which was acquired in 2009.
I've also built a number of popular
open-source projects which you can find on GitHub.
Projects
- Bugsnag
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Bugsnag captures errors from your web and mobile applications,
helping you to understand and resolve them as fast as possible.
- Gitscore
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Web app that calculates your GitHub
reputation score, based on your open-source contributions. Built entirely
in Node.js.
- Asynchronous Http Client for Android
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An asynchronous callback-based HTTP client for Android used by Instagram,
Heyzap, Trello and many other large apps.
- jQuery Tokeninput
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A jQuery plugin for selecting multiple items from a predefined list,
using autocompletion as you type to find each item. Used by Twitter
and many other large sites.
- jQuery Simple Slider
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An unobtrusive jQuery plugin for selecting a value from a numerical
range by simply dragging a slider.
- Smart Image View for Android
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A drop-in replacement for Android’s standard ImageView which allows
images to be loaded from URLs or the phone’s contact address book.
Images are cached to memory and to disk for super fast loading.
Blog Posts