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Indy BonesJoinue ships eighteen themes. Seventeen are about colors and vibes. This one is about a black and white Australian Shepherd named Indy.
Undisputed best theme for any app of all time.
This claim will stand until somebody makes me take it down.
That is my whole argument. I ran it by myself and I approved it. He's only ever done good stuff and that's all that needs to be said.
Not a single one. Ask anyone who has met him, then keep asking until you find somebody who agrees. Rumor has it he's never even had a bad thought.
The chicken pad thai incident, 2020. He ate an order of chicken pad thai off my desk while I was in the restroom. But it was my fault. I left the room with such a good meal sitting out in the open, and he was not going to let it go to waste. Any reasonable dog does the same thing. No charges were filed.
Herding my friend, 2023. A friend ran, and Indy chased him. This was herding instinct and not aggression. The friend was moving in an unstructured way, and he was returned to the group promptly and unharmed. Herding is the job. He was doing the job.
That is the complete record. A whole life, two footnotes, and both of them somebody else’s doing.†
† There have been other things. They were all circumstantial.
All of this is real. That is the part that makes it funny.
The Joinue pin steps aside and Indy takes the slot: top bar, tab bar, the little mark that shows while a screen loads. Look at the header up there. That's him, and he stays there on every screen you open.
Some of the time, the welcome line on your home page is whatever Indy would have said instead. It changes through the day and holds still inside the hour, so he sounds like he is in the room and not reading off a card.
The greys are true neutrals, since his coat is genuinely black and any warmth in there turns him into somebody else's dog. Nothing is shiny either: fur scatters light, so there is no highlight anywhere in this theme. The first draft had a bevel on everything and looked like a wristwatch. I am a grown man and I spent a whole afternoon on this.
Every other theme shows up in the picker as four bars of color, which cannot tell you who somebody is. His row is a portrait instead. He rides on your profile banner too.
“Do you have a treat?”“You're the top dog!”“I'm bored, let's play fetch”“Woof woof woof!”There are more, and your ordinary good morning stays in the mix, so plenty of days the home page is just a home page. If he piped up every single time, it would be old by Thursday.
The coat
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Shade
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His eyes
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Deep water
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Two of those are almost the same black, which is what happens when you build a theme around a dog who is mostly black.
I said let’s go, and he went with me.
Life is about real experiences with people you care about. That is what I built Joinue for: find the thing, get your people there, then put your phone away.
To his credit, Indy has never opened any app ever.
The page kind of is, but the theme is real and you are in it right now.
Probably not. You can send a picture to info@joinue.com and I will look at it, which is not the same as saying yes but gives you hope.
I told him about his theme, but I don't think the gravity of the situation was fully understood. He heard his name and then a lot of other words.
If you like the theme, sign up or sign in and choose Indy Bones. In the app it is Settings, then Appearance, then Indy Bones. He sits at the bottom of that list because he was the newest, not because of the pad thai incident.
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