Portfolio
Chicago Rentals Direct
Chicago Rentals Direct hosts hundreds of apartment listings in its online database and has thousands of renters signed up to search apartments and receive updates. Complete with customized email alerts, apartment photos, and a sophisticated map search tool.
Herschel Correspondence Database
With their old obsolete database, searching took 15 minutes and had to be done on a specific computer with special software. We imported the 14,000 entries into a beautiful new public site, where the public at large has access and searches are executed instantaneously.
Open Produce Sales Visualization
Open Produce stopped making business decisions in the blind and now can literally see what works and what doesn't. They can visualize sales by time of day, day of week, and see and predict seasonal variations, and also track their inventory and purchasing.
Beta Ltd WordPress Setup and Web Production
When a successful mixer event was looking to expand to other cities, they hired us to design and set up a new family of Wordpress sites. We also push frequent, timely content updates to the site under a monthly retainer agreement.
Fairbanks Truck Scales
Within significant hardware and software compatibility constraints, we used the most modern tools available to increase the usability of this ubiquitous industry tool.
Chicago Archive of Indigenous Literatures of Latin America
From bibliographic data to digital scans, CAILLA preserves and catalogs hard-to-find literature in indigenous languages and makes them accessible to other researchers.
Open Produce Point of Sale System
An unusual cash register solution for an unusual business. Open Produce cut customer wait times and started gathering important sales data using inexpensive hardware and custom software.
Web Survey Tool
An extensible custom survey engine ideal for many applications in business, non-profits, and medical centers.
Rummage Marketplace
This site offers a convenient modern alternative to inscrutable newspaper listings. Buyers get a text message or email alert when there's a new sale in their area and can go online to browse or get driving directions, while sellers see the auction attendance soar.
Webster Signatures Database
We turned an unwieldy 15,000-entry list into a fully functional database on the Adler's website, making this data accessible to the public.
Stemming.org
Stemming.org is an online community by, for, and about women in science, tech, engineering, and math that uses an all-purpose informal post system to accommodate blog entries, job postings, event listings, and more.
Facebook API Client
Results By using our client code, Pearl Cards was able to maintain their existing codebase while switching to the Data Store for their data. Our code is also publicly available on GitHub for other developers to use and improve.
TevCat Scientific Catalog
Helping scientists push the frontier of knowledge, we redesigned this important research tool to be extensible and maintainable by moving away from kludgy text files and into a fully functional relational database.
Dioptrice Database of Telescopes
Photos, technical data, and historical information all needed one central repository, so we built a custom database for the web. Researchers around the world can now collaborate and help improve this ambitious project.
Blueboard Signage
We set up a simple WordPress site for local startup Blueboard Signage which gave them a slick web presence cheaply and quickly.
Little Bits Toys
We designed and developed a WordPress site for Little Bits Toys, a small business that can now easily use their blog to keep their customer base involved.