Nadia Hitman���s Post

What a very special milestone! 10 years of being at Simply ✨ A decade ago I made the best bet choosing to come here. I felt it in my bones that this mission was going to be huge, that there is a real need with an amazingly rewarding purpose and that there’s the most incredible people to go on this ride together. This still rings true today. Through the ups and downs, seeing how everything has evolved with people all around the world discovering and enjoying creative hobbies is a testament to this. It’s been transformative on my life and me as a person, both professionally and personally. Here’s what sticks out for me ✨ When I joined we were a handful of people working on what was back then our piano flagship product for teachers. It then became a much loved and recommended tool for music teachers all over the world. ✨ Scaling this goodness bringing our first Simply product with piano for everyone which then grew into a whole lot of ways to enjoy a creative hobby that went beyond music. The Simply brand that was built to match our evolution bringing everything together - what a blast, even with the impossibly hard challenges. ✨ Seeing up front how we bring these good positive activities in the world, adding real value and loved by many is wild. That’s B2C for you. ✨The very special team with intense partnership and trust that is felt. Even being vulnerable when it didn’t go the way you planned or you think something is impossible you own it with finding a way to crack it and take the learnings as if it was your own startup. ✨Endless hours of fun and goofiness with so many memories made. A place where you can simply be yourself in pursuit of impact (sorry, not sorry for the pun) and even get everyone to curse like a true Brit. ✨So many stories and learnings together. It doesn’t feel like a decade as the needs evolve as the company does so it never feels the same or the same role. It’s not trivial to still feel seen after a whopping decade. Feeling very grateful and in awe of everyone. It’s been one hell of a ride together with so much more to do 🌈

One of the things that connect us all together is the ability to push forwards despite challenges. In a special Calcalist כלכליסט article Yuval Kaminka reflects on the journey at Simply. A thought-provoking and beautiful piece. Link to article: https://t.ly/PPJbE [article in Hebrew, but translate works really well 😊)

Wow! Apple chose Simply Draw as App of the Day around the 🌎. Proud to be highlighted as a simple and fun way to express yourself creatively 💜 Editorial story in the first comment ✨ Kudos to the team 👏 Simply #positiveuptime #AppStore #iOS #b2cmarketing #globalmarketing

Kicking 2024 off with Apple selecting Simply as one of the top 24 ways to make your time count this year choosing Simply Piano alongside Duolingo and others 🎉 🎉 🎉 Thanks to Apple for recognizing the amazing value for learners around the world with how they're spending their time positively at home, making it easy and fun to express themselves through developing creative hobbies. Simply (formerly JoyTunes) #appstore #ios #applenews #globalmarketing #b2cmarketing #b2c

At a time when everyone around the world is at home during these festive holidays, Apple chose to feature Simply Piano as App of the Day 🎄🎉💪 #Apple #marketing #globalmarketing #iOS #SimplyPiano

During these days when the ground has fallen out from underneath our feet, the team at Simply worked on translating Simply Piano to Hebrew to help everyone in our local community, even the little ones. It’s also still free to learn for those in Israel, just like all our other Simply apps. Hopefully, this can help give some small moments of comfort during these challenging times. Feel free to share with anyone that it might help 💙   Link to get apps: https://lnkd.in/dRs9d7FG

The pain and devastation is immense. Like so many around us, we’ve lost loved ones, we’re grappling with the horror of family members being held hostage, and we’re all anxious for those that we know and don’t know, some of whom are currently on the front lines. With great grief comes the understanding that only together, with mutual support and the embrace of our community, we can find moments of light through this darkness. We’ve been dedicated to doing whatever we can to offer help, even if only a little, to support our local communities. To try and give a little relief and comfort, we also made all our apps - Simply Piano, Simply Guitar, Simply Sing, Simply Draw - available for free use in Israel until the end of the year. You can get them on all mobile devices and they’re for both kids and adults. Hoping for better days 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻

How comfortable are you to make mistakes? We often don't want to admit to making a mistake from the fear of failure or being uncomfortable. At Simply (formerly JoyTunes), not only do we work hard to create an environment that we feel safe to share our mistakes to accelerate us, it's built into our products to help make learning new creative skills less challenging and overwhelming. One of our amazing designers, Maayan Malka spoke about this premise in a recent TEDx talk around the challenges of learning something new and the struggle of being comfortable to make mistakes giving simple and effective tools taken from our products. When we feel safe to make mistakes, we become stronger, more confident giving us the ability to truly express ourselves to reach our goals and new possibilities. Maayan, you rocked it 🔥 Watch the TED talk here: https://lnkd.in/d_tNj3jy #selfexpression #innovation #creativity #techforgood #b2c #b2cmarketing #globalmarketing

Something huge just happened. Apple released their much-awaited mixed reality headset last night and Simply was up front and center as one of the few companies in their biggest release for years! 💥 🚀 🤘 AR will change so many everyday experiences that we're used to, how we spend our time at home, including transforming how we learn new creative skills. When we started, this vision was far away, now we're part of creating this vision. It's epic. Some thoughts on how this is going to change everything: https://lnkd.in/dtErJmdZ #apple #simply #augmentedreality #consumertech #globalmarketing #ios #iosdeveloper #AR #mixedreality #wwdc23 #wwdc