Projects
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.
We’ve completed many projects, large and small. The following is just a sample. If you would like to speak with us about your project or the projects we’ve completed, please contact us.
Project Overviews
National Gazette
On this project, we were responsible for the database design, backend development, front-end implementation, and other massaging as necessary needed to launch the web site. The simple and superb graphic design (and initial HTML/CSS) were provided by Jason Santa Maria and Cameron Moll, as documented quite some time ago on their respective blogs (here and here last spring).
The news site seeks to analyze the meaning behind news stories. To that end, one feature of the site is user-driven “prediction markets”, in the spirit of the IEM or other futures contracts markets that trade on political news and events.
Nature Network – A social networking platform built for researchers and scientists
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes Nature — the leading scientific journal for industry scientists and academic researchers. Nature called on thoughtbot to create a companion service — Nature Network — which aims to capture the passion and interest of their audience in a useful and friendly community website. With niche local sites for Boston and London — and general news, forum, blog and group content for the entire world — Nature Network is a scientific meeting place for “web 2.0”.
Gradspot – A social networking and information site for recent college graduates
Gradspot is “the survival guide to life after college” — containing hundreds of tips, tricks and tools, all geared towards helping graduates navigate the transition from college to the future.
We worked with the gradspot founders to take the site from initial concept to successful launch. With a graphical design provided by our friends at shotgunflat.
