web02.fireside.fm Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:21:29 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Happy Paths - Episodes Tagged with “Circa” https://happy-paths.fireside.fm/tags/circa Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400 Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era. In each episode, host James Evans dives deep on one iconic product or feature — like Gmail, the hashtag, or Twitter Spaces — with the people who built them. We will pull back the curtain on the little details of how they were made, giving context for our audience on who uses these products, as well as providing practical learnings for other product practitioners. en-us episodic Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era. CommandBar Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era. In each episode, host James Evans dives deep on one iconic product or feature — like Gmail, the hashtag, or Twitter Spaces — with the people who built them. We will pull back the curtain on the little details of how they were made, giving context for our audience on who uses these products, as well as providing practical learnings for other product practitioners. no Happy Paths, UX, user experience, product manager, growth product manager, UX designer, UX engineer CommandBar paul@commandbar.com Circa with Matt Galligan https://happy-paths.fireside.fm/circa-matt-galligan 64109f02-b437-4701-85f0-7da1a05a7275 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400 CommandBar full 1 CommandBar It might be hard to believe, but smartphone notifications are a fairly new phenomenon, at least as we know them today, constant notifications for every app on your phone unless you turn them off. When iOS and Android first became popular, you'd really only get three types of regular notifications: a new email, a new voicemail, or a missed phone call. With the invention of push notifications, mobile apps gained a new way of sending information directly to users. One of the categories where push notifications are most used and overused is news —every day, all the time. Suddenly, you can get breaking news updates pushed straight to your phone every hour of the day. For this episode, James talked with Matt Galligan. Matt was the Co-founder and CEO of Circa, which was the first mainstream news app to approach news delivery in a fundamentally mobile-first way. They talked about what being mobile-first means, some of their highest-leveraged design decisions within Circa, how it was received among mainstream media, as well as its legacy in online journalism. 26:58 no It might be hard to believe, but smartphone notifications are a fairly new phenomenon, at least as we know them today, constant notifications for every app on your phone unless you turn them off. When iOS and Android first became popular, you'd really only get three types of regular notifications: a new email, a new voicemail, or a missed phone call. With the invention of push notifications, mobile apps gained a new way of sending information directly to users. One of the categories where push notifications are most used and overused is news —every day, all the time. Suddenly, you can get breaking news updates pushed straight to your phone every hour of the day. For this episode, James talked with Matt Galligan. Matt was the Co-founder and CEO of Circa, which was the first mainstream news app to approach news delivery in a fundamentally mobile-first way. They talked about what being mobile-first means, some of their highest-leveraged design decisions within Circa, how it was received among mainstream media, as well as its legacy in online journalism. Bio Matt Galligan is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco and is the CEO and Co-founder of Circa. He co-founded the company alongside Ben Huh in 2011. A native of central Illinois, Galligan has worked at Monster Commerce and AOL Inc., and at Socialthing!, SimpleGEO, and TechStars, a seed-venture capital pool. Links Farewell to Circa News (https://medium.com/circa/farewell-to-circa-news-7d002150f74b) Matt Galligan - Website (https://galligan.xyz/) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/mg) - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgalligan/) James Evans - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-evans-7086b3126/) CommandBar - Follow CommandBar (https://www.commandbar.com/) on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/commandbar/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/CommandBar). circa, news, mobile, atomic units, journalism, matt galligan It might be hard to believe, but smartphone notifications are a fairly new phenomenon, at least as we know them today, constant notifications for every app on your phone unless you turn them off.

When iOS and Android first became popular, you'd really only get three types of regular notifications: a new email, a new voicemail, or a missed phone call. With the invention of push notifications, mobile apps gained a new way of sending information directly to users.

One of the categories where push notifications are most used and overused is news —every day, all the time. Suddenly, you can get breaking news updates pushed straight to your phone every hour of the day.

For this episode, James talked with Matt Galligan. Matt was the Co-founder and CEO of Circa, which was the first mainstream news app to approach news delivery in a fundamentally mobile-first way. They talked about what being mobile-first means, some of their highest-leveraged design decisions within Circa, how it was received among mainstream media, as well as its legacy in online journalism.

Bio

Matt Galligan is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco and is the CEO and Co-founder of Circa. He co-founded the company alongside Ben Huh in 2011.

A native of central Illinois, Galligan has worked at Monster Commerce and AOL Inc., and at Socialthing!, SimpleGEO, and TechStars, a seed-venture capital pool.

Links

Matt Galligan

James Evans

CommandBar

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When iOS and Android first became popular, you'd really only get three types of regular notifications: a new email, a new voicemail, or a missed phone call. With the invention of push notifications, mobile apps gained a new way of sending information directly to users.

One of the categories where push notifications are most used and overused is news —every day, all the time. Suddenly, you can get breaking news updates pushed straight to your phone every hour of the day.

For this episode, James talked with Matt Galligan. Matt was the Co-founder and CEO of Circa, which was the first mainstream news app to approach news delivery in a fundamentally mobile-first way. They talked about what being mobile-first means, some of their highest-leveraged design decisions within Circa, how it was received among mainstream media, as well as its legacy in online journalism.

Bio

Matt Galligan is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco and is the CEO and Co-founder of Circa. He co-founded the company alongside Ben Huh in 2011.

A native of central Illinois, Galligan has worked at Monster Commerce and AOL Inc., and at Socialthing!, SimpleGEO, and TechStars, a seed-venture capital pool.

Links

Matt Galligan

James Evans

CommandBar

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