Mobile app · Web planner · GIS · AI automation
Trail Sherpa
Offline trail navigation and trip planning for backpackers in the Pennsylvania Wilds. Designed, built and launched on iOS, Android and the web in five months.
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Product design, mobile apps and automation, plus the products we're incubating in our own lab.
Citizen science · Mobile apps · Survey platform
Hive Science
Geolocated survey apps for Lake Tahoe and NASA-funded snowpack research. About 25,000 volunteer observations, and the foundation for our next platform.
Read the case studyTourism · Bluetooth beacons · Real-time CMS
Joinify
A real-time content platform for destination apps: beacon-triggered walking tours, merchant deals and visitor guides, updated without app store releases.
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More work
Ecommerce · Shopify · Print on demand
Loyalsock Trail Shop
A Shopify store for one of Pennsylvania’s classic backpacking trails: 47 trail-branded products, from blaze patches to map tees, printed and shipped on demand with no inventory, and cross-promoted inside the Trail Sherpa community.
Visit the shopSaaS · 2007–2014 · Founded & sold
Minute7
Time and expense tracking for QuickBooks, built to fix our own bookkeeping. It grew to $25K a month, added 1,000+ customers in a single quarter, was featured in Entrepreneur, and was sold to a business partner in 2014.
In the lab
Products we're developing in-house. Each one starts with a real community problem.
In design
Joinify
A hyper-local hub for businesses and neighbors, organized by zip code. Part map, part community board, part directory.
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Hive Science
A white-label citizen science platform that lets environmental organizations publish field surveys and collect observations from the public.
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xThera
Game-based occupational, physical and speech therapy exercises designed for neurodivergent kids and the therapists who work with them.
Twenty years of client work for travel, tourism and small business brands is available on request. Ask us for examples.
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