Merry Christmas
Photo by Thomas Quine Merry Christmas everyone. Say warm and jolly with your loved ones this weekend. Please don't forget to reach out to those who are cold and hungry this weekend....
December 24, 2016
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Blockchain explained clearly in 3 videos
Blockchain has been coming up in our client meetings lately. They've been asking us about developing apps for such networks. We've heard about the internet of information, Internet of things, and now it is time for the Internet of Value. Blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions...
September 27, 2016
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Dear startup founder
... inspired by apps like uber. My partner and I would like to have a meeting with you to get an estimate on making an app. Photo by hackNY.org Dear startup founder, you can't outsource your product development. You need to build it in your team and the estimate...
August 24, 2016
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Our 5 most popular blog posts from 2015
January is a crazy month for us. We get projects spilling over from the previous year and new opportunities rush through in the same time. So for our 2nd blog post in the new year we are posting the top 5 blog posts from the...
February 1, 2016
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Happy New Year 2016
Happy New year! It's a new beginning. We know that last year was a challenging one for many of our Canadian clients in the resource industry as well as non profit organizations focused on science, medicine, and research. We've been hearing news of budget cuts and...
January 4, 2016
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How to startup? Not by outsourcing
Business season is picking up and the mobile app market is humming at a higher pitch again. We are getting a lot of app idea inquiries that repeat the 3 following questions. A lot of them are not good candidates to be taken by our...
September 21, 2015
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Why Android projects are postponed in early stage startups
Photo by Uncalno Tekno A common scenario that we get to see a lot is when a startup starts building their solution on all mobile platforms at once before figuring out what software design, user experience, or feature-set meet the needs of their customers. A startups is...
May 7, 2015
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Health Connection BC website gets improved search and mobile accessibility
The HealthConnection website - which is owned and operated by Vancouver Coastal Health - has recently been upgraded with enhanced search and mobile accessibility. Users can now use a single search box to search the site globally and get access to all the information about...
April 29, 2015
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The Lafarge ePod apps are used when shipping cement to customers
This is has been both exciting and rewarding for us. We worked the last 12 months with the Lafarge Eastern Canada team and launched the ePod iOS and Android apps. Today they are on the app store and working. 12 months ago they were ideas...
April 7, 2015
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Celebrating yet another app launch
River (on the right saying hi) was visiting us in Vancouver today so we decided to do our usual tradition of celebrating with sushi. Yesterday another app that we had developed was published on the app store. It was the Lafarge ePod iOS developed by...
March 26, 2015
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Meet us at the VentureBeat Roadshow Vancouver Mobile Developers event
We are at the VentureBeat Roadshow Vancouver Mobile Developers event and John Koetsier just took the stage. He is giving some great numbers about success and failure of mobile apps. More is on the way. Rastin Mehr our CEO and President is here. Come and talk...
March 25, 2015
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Keep the Technical Design Specification short to stay creative
Photo by Tobias Toft Our first time enterprise clients keep reminding us through their projects that we should read their technical design specifications (TDS). Whenever a detail comes up through the project, they become furious and tell us that this particular issue was on the page...
March 24, 2015
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