Hello everybody,

While I want to thanks all our clients whose name I can’t disclose openly and project I can’t put in our portfolio
And also people behind the scene who run the company and whose stories we’ll be telling in 2011 more so that you know who to say thanks too in return

I wanted to thank:

1) Apple for inspiring me continuously by it’s facinating hardware
2) IKEA for building even nicer env around us in office
3) Then also VoodooVentures and FlatSoft for supporting it’s Flatsourcing project so diligently
4) PivotalLabs for PivotalTracker that we use for bug and features development tracking
5) GitHUB for hosting all our early and late code deliveries in our fs GitHUB account
6) Heroku and Slicehost for being our favourite hosting providers
7) All community behind RubyOnRails by 37signals, and thanks again to 38signals for Basecamp that is the tool that made us expand the communication and scope of projects dramatically!
Scrum and Agile coaches that helps us manage all the projects.

Thanks!

Oleg

Who doesn’t love a nice inforgraphic? Surely I do, so here’s one I came across recently that’s near and dear to my heart, apps. Whether they be web based, mobile, or desktop, there’s an app out there that can help you in your work and if there isn’t we’re always happy to build it!

Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

Hey everybody!

Let me show you what we have in our github account for prototyping Rails applications.

Here is skeleton for Rails 3 based applications filled with:

• Basic auth: Devise app/models/user.rb
• Navigation: SimpleNavigation config/navigations
• DRY controllers: Inherited Resources
• Form builder: Formtastic config/initializers/formtastic.rb
• List builder: Tabletastic config/initializers/tabletastic.rb
• Default styles for Formtastic: Flutie
• Application config: Configatron config/config.yml
• JS Framework: Jquery-rails
• Tests: RSpec, Shoulda, RR, Cucumber, Factory Girl, Autotest
• Code metrics: rails_best_practices and rcov

We know there are a lot of other templates like Suspenders and brand new Prologue .

But we want concentrate on scaffolding and that’s is why we have a little bit customized templates for scaffold views, controllers and cucumber features.

If you intrested, please checkout Rails3 Base github repo , feel free to fork, send pull requests.

Thanks,
Timur

I came across a great post on the blog of Jason Baptiste that got me thinking about our clients and how we can help them beyond development. Our core business is in providing development resources, but as think about where we want to go (and grow) as a company it becomes clearer that helping our clients be successful any way we can is a necessity.

Clearly, building a scalable, easy to use, and useful app is the first step towards a successful startup, but this post on 16 Ways Your Startup Needs to be Getting Customers should be a reminder that once the app is launched, the real work begins, acquiring customers.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments or point us at other articles you think illustrate the best way to get your app to your customer base.