We're excited to announce the beta launch of Sliqr. Littlelines recently helped build Sliqr.com, a web application that serves as your personal brand portfolio - letting you oversee your web presences like Facebook, Twitter, personal site or blog.
Sliqr scores your personal brand by analyzing key metrics across your Twitter, Facebook, and Google Analytics accounts, while letting you decide which metrics are most important.
Littlelines worked with our friends at MetaLab to design and develop the product, from ideation through development.
Signup using invite code LITTLELINES and give it a try!
We're elated to announce that we are proud new owners of RubyRags (A community-driven e-commerce site for Ruby and Rails themed tee shirts). As long time fans of RubyRags, we're thrilled to be a part of it.
At Littlelines, we pride ourselves on beautiful Ruby code and design. We also have a strong background in e-commerce, so when we first caught wind of RubyRags availablity, we thought we were a perfect fit.
We have some exciting plans in store for RubyRags. First and foremost, we will be working hard to restock all the popular designs. Perhaps most exciting of all, we'll be getting to work on new designs and plan to introduce new tees on an on-going basis. Check back soon, and, if you’re interested in staying up-to-date, follow RubyRags on Twitter or join the RubyRags mailing list.
Lastly, we want to say thank you to Ryan Norbauer and crew on a phenomenal contribution to the Ruby community. We are truly honored to keep it going.
Our website isn’t the only thing that got a recent overhaul. As our team grew, we knew it was time to graduate from working in café’s, coffee shops, and home offices, and officially make the move into the first Littlelines Studio.
Nestled snuggly in the Midwest, our headquarters is in the center of a bustling urban area, complete with all of the essentials: Coffee shops, quaint restaurants, live music on the weekends, and an endless amount of energy from the locals. This energy has done wonders to invigorate our new team, and has lent quite a bit of inspiration to our work. Be sure to check out our Flickr page for some photos, and keep your eyes peeled as our studio continues to grow (we’re still adding furniture!).
It’s more than hard to believe that Littlelines has been in business for over three years. We’ve not only been pleasantly busy, but we’ve amassed an amazing roster of clients with such awesome ideas that we can’t help but be proud (we’ll not go so far as calling these projects “our children”, but it’s something like that. After all, they have been released unto the world from our technical and creative cradle, right?). Naturally, with these great ideas comes a new portfolio, so it’s just logical to house them in a freshly designed website of our own.
Equally exciting is that we’ve also grown as a team, taking on a new Front-End Developer, Dan Combs, and Copywriter Colin Dullaghan. Their added experience and expertise continues to impress us on a daily basis.
Amidst this chaotic and exciting schedule, it’s been tough to assign time for personal projects. Designing a company website can be tough, especially when our day jobs consist of translating a vast amount of ideas into unique websites for others. How does one give voice to a site that is meant to give voice to others?
In the end it came to buckling down and asking the question: “Where do we shine?” With hardly a thought, we knew that the answer once again pointed to that single, crucial element: Our clients. We’ve built some very strong relationships over the past few years, and even made a few friends along the way. Once this epiphany came to light, the site practically designed itself.
And hey, it’s what we do. So, without further adieu, we welcome you to the all-new Littlelines.com.
Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com wrote a good article on 18 tips on saving money running a startup. Here at the Littlelines headqarters we certainly follow a few of them - Macs, second monitors, Google mail, expensive chairs. Number eighteen is particularly interesting to us since we are located in the heart of middle America.
“ Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don't live in a $4,000 one bedroom apartment and pay $8 to dry clean a shirt--hire them!
We are happy to oblige! Thanks Jason for recognizing the sometimes overlooked talent located only a few hours away.
