Work
At thoughtbot, we are a small team — and we believe that’s a positive thing. We communicate regularly during project work, ensuring that our clients get what they need, when they need it.
The projects on this page are just a sample of the recent client work we’ve completed (we’ve also released a few projects for the ruby community). If you would like to speak with us about your project or any of the projects we’ve completed, please contact us.
Nature Network
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes Nature — the leading scientific journal for academic and industry scientists and researchers. When NPG wanted to expand their online presence and brand into the world of social networking, they called on thoughtbot to create a companion service to their flagship product at nature.com — and Nature Network was born. The site aims to capture the passion and interest of their science audience within the confines of a useful and friendly community website. The site includes general news, forum, blog and group content, and aims to be a leading meeting place for “science 2.0”.
Carbonrally
Recently featured in Time Magazine — Carbonrally is a “web-based activism platform offering individuals and groups a fun, simple and social way to have a measurable impact on climate change”. We have worked with the Carbonrally team through their bootstrap phase, and into their first round of funding, and continue to do ongoing maintenance and development for the site. We did the entirety of the design and development for the site.
Tripletz
The concept behind Tripletz is for site users to send a “series of three custom-designed cards, mailed sequentially for three days, in tasty little envelopes, to spell out a message to your someone special”. In addition to being a product site to buy greeting cards, Tripletz is also a marketplace for card designers to upload their art and get rewarded when it is used by another user. We did all backend development work for the Tripletz application.
Gift Genius
Giftgenius, the “the ultimate online gift guide”, aims to make the process of finding gifts online more efficient — and more fun. The site combines editorial gift writeups with a “genius” matching system which works behind the scenes to connect site users with gifts on the site. Working with our NYC officemates thehappycorp global, we completed all backend development work while they handled all site design and branding work.
Terrapass
The Terrapass Small Business Calculator enables small and medium sized businesses to calculate their carbon footprint totals, and buy carbon credits to offset that footprint. We performed all user interface, backend and database work for the calculator application.
