Jesse Shapins

@rrhoover I wish I could say we built this in less than a week, but I *would* be lying : ) But it did come out of a very quick sprint of a couple of weeks, and it's a similar approach we're planning to take on future apps. The basic inspiration was a part of the BF website from a few years ago that had been really popular (http://buzzfeed.com/cuteornot), and then thinking about how much more...

Happy to answer any questions folks may have!! This is the first experimental app by our new team at BuzzFeed. @chrisjohanesen wrote this post about our larger thinking on apps/experiments: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chris/what-the-hell-are-we-doing-with-apps#.aqJM6vdmj

@thomasmeagher thx! get ready for the next big release of GoPop : ))

PS Wish I could make yr event tonight in NYC : )

Since launching GoPop last February, we've seen our community really adopt the call-and-response aspect of the app. (I showed the unique reply feature where you can choose a piece of media from someone's Pop and then add your own visual at last month's Product Hunt event w/ @rrhoover at the Apple Store). People have used this for everything from making faceswaps with each other to reactions to...