Alexander Obenauer


Mail Pilot

In January 2012, my business partner, Josh Milas, and I launched an idea on Kickstarter with little more than the idea and some hope. We called it "Mail Pilot: Email, Reimagined." It caught on quickly. Others called it "Ingenious" (David Pogue, in the NYT), "Kickstarter of the Week" (WIRED Insider), "The Email Revolution", "Really clever" (Jason Fried, 37signals founder), "Promising and way overdue", "a dream", and more. More than 1,600 backers later, Mail Pilot succeeded on Kickstarter passing 150% of its goal.

Since then, we launched Mindsense LLC, which oversees the development of Mail Pilot.


Articles

2013 January 1, 2013

Jobs & Artisans October 4, 2012

Lifelong Learning and the C.S. Curriculum at Virginia Tech March 13, 2012

Stop writing good code; start writing good software November 19, 2011

Ideate, Simplify, Execute November 22, 2012


Other Projects

Design Portfolio All of my design work is posted to our Mindsense Design page.

Maximize Your Crowd A book my business partner and I wrote on how to succeed on Kickstarter.

Hungry Hokie What dining halls are open on campus at Virginia Tech right now?

TEDxVirginiaTech I have the honor of serving on the Steering Committee since the inauguration of the event


Talks

The Crazy Ones at Virginia Tech on October 19, 2011, and Radford University on November 2, 2011


Defunct Projects

VT Bus Tracker Where is the Blacksburg Transit right now?

Sip On Summer A fine curation of summertime cocktails in a beautiful interface for iPad.