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Flipcorder has been trending on the App Store for two weeks. Here's what launching it taught me, from the code to the marketing I'd never done before.

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Life and work

Working Remote

Matt Code

Linking your Rails App to Salesforce with OAuth 2.0

Reed Van Anrooy Running a studio

How we built an offline mapping mobile app for Windrock Park

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Every post, by year

2026 3 posts
  1. 14 days trending: what launching Flipcorder taught me
  2. Building for others since 2015. Now I'm building my own.
  3. Moving OnTrac to Dejavoo in the middle of the BridgePay outage
2019 8 posts · 1 by Reed Van Anrooy
  1. How we built an offline mapping mobile app for Windrock Park
  2. 3 Common Mistakes We See When Clients Skip Discovery
  3. Linking your Rails App to Salesforce with OAuth 2.0Reed Van Anrooy
  4. What we learned integrating Heartland Payments into the OnTrac Point of Sale: 3 months later
  5. Product Discovery: Investing in Your Business
  6. Curious What Goes into Maintaining a Mobile App after Launch?
  7. Learn how we utilize our experience crafting mobile apps to rebrand a focused travel app experience in record time
  8. 5 Tips for Comparing Software Development Estimates
2018 14 posts
  1. What it really means for you to make the jump and freelance full time
  2. Looking Back at 10 Years as a Software Developer
  3. Utilizing the Power of ElasticSearch and PostgreSQL with ZomboDB
  4. Remembering Matthew Shepard: 20 Years Later
  5. A Year Working with Croozen to Launch a New Cloud Platform
  6. Why Ads are Frustrating on the Apple App Store
  7. Stripe Raises Another $245M and Can Work for Your Small Business
  8. 3 Tips to Craft More Effective Email Subjects
  9. 3 Tips for Quickly Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
  10. The Hidden Cost of a Cheaper Hourly Rate
  11. Behind the Scenes: Hourly Rate
  12. Announcing OnTrac Point of Sale
  13. What You're not Asking your Development Partner
  14. Our Collaboration with MathStar
2017 32 posts · 11 by Chris
  1. Announcing School PayIt
  2. Using Before Destroy and Has Many in Rails
  3. Expanding Objects in Stripe API
  4. How We Approach a New Project
  5. Official Launch of Equus Hub for iOS
  6. Good Tech Disrupts Established Markets Easily - Trucker Path
  7. WWDC 2017 and You
  8. 5 Wishes for Apple's 2017 WWDC
  9. Aboriginal Apprenticeship Board of Ontario Portal Software Launch
  10. Announcing Our Entrepreneur Video Series
  11. 5 Software Solutions that Failed with Poor Marketing
  12. 3 Tips to Identify the Target Audience for Software Solutions
  13. Why Market Validation is Important to Launching Software Solutions
  14. We've RebrandedChris
  15. 3 Tips to Create New Software Solutions
  16. How to Make Marketing Yourself EasyChris
  17. How to Use Slack VotingChris
  18. How to Create Threadsafe Ruby Sidekiq Workers
  19. MetaProgramming Ruby to Manage Raspberry PI GPIO
  20. What is the Internet of Things or IoT? (Part 2)
  21. What is the Internet of things or IoT? (Part 1)Chris
  22. What are Standup Meetings?Chris
  23. How to Use Sidekiq without Rails
  24. How to use SSH Port Forwarding in Ruby HTTP Library
  25. How to Design a Mobile AppChris
  26. How to Test ActiveJob Callbacks Using Sidekiq
  27. The Design ProcessChris
  28. How to Manage Environment Variable in Ruby Subprocess
  29. Logo Design BasicsChris
  30. What the font?Chris
  31. UI/UX Design OverviewChris
  32. Understanding the basics of Branding through Brand Identity ExamplesChris
2016 5 posts · 1 by Chris
  1. Hand Crafted Holiday BoxesChris
  2. Lotus Apps T-Shirts
  3. Managing Ruby Scripts at Launch
  4. Welcoming Lorena to Lotus
  5. Adventures in Hiring an Engineer
2015 4 posts
  1. Unify Sports
  2. Introducing Prospector
  3. Working Remote - Part 2
  4. Working Remote
2014 7 posts
  1. Experience with Poltergeist and PhantomJS Testing
  2. Introducing ProMotion-Menu
  3. Rails 4 Request Variants
  4. Introducing Swift
  5. Introducing ActiveAdmin-StateMachine
  6. Introducing Motion-Speech
  7. Our first gem: Motion Launchpad

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