Our Work
Here are some of our current clients:
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Bedsider
Client: Power to Decide, the Campaign to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy
Year started working together: 2011
We built and continue to maintain Bedsider, an online birth control support network that provides young people with high-quality, accurate information about reproductive health and contraceptive methods. We also built and continue to maintain Bedsider for Providers
At the heart of the site is a custom content management system that allows editorial staff to create and manage site content: articles, banners/billboards, FAQ questions, user-contributed photos, e-cards etc. Other major components include a location-based clinic search engine and a portal for health care providers.
Technology employed: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Amazon S3, PostgreSQL, SendGrid, Heroku;
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dentataBase
Client: The American Chestnut Foundation
Year started working together: 2015
In pursuit of its mission to restore the American chestnut tree, the Foundation operates a program to breed genetically diverse, disease-resistant strains. This activity is conducted largely by volunteers in twenty states. dentataBase was created to house the data generated by this program, standardizing collection and centralizing access. It facilitates better analysis, more coordinated efforts, and more accurate tracking of genealogy. The system currently tracks over a quarter of a million planted trees at over 700 sites, along with information about their lineage and field observations on dozens of traits. Data may be entered via online forms or batch imported from spreadsheets. Data export and reporting functions are also provided.
Technology employed: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Heroku
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Steve & Kate Camp - Logistics / Administrative App
Client: Steve & Kate Camp
Year started working together: 2020
Steve & Kate’s Camp is famous for being a great camp for kids. They’re also famous for the excellent software they use to run their camps. We’ve been helping them for years with their website, the Steve & Kate’s app, and their administrative tools.
Technology employed: React Native, Redux, Apollo/GraphQL, Docker
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MyPath - Reproductive Health Decision Support Tool
Client: Veterans' Affairs
Year started working together: 2018
In a partnership with University of Washington and University of California, San Fransico, a research team at the Veterans Affairs developed this tool to support patients and providers with reproductive health options. As MyPath’s popularity grows, it spawns many different variations for different university research teams, and special versions for postpartum users.
We built and maintain all versions of MyPath; we also built a small introduction website here
Technology employed: Ruby, Rails, PostgresSQL, Sendgrid, React, Redux
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Anson Mills - E-Commerce Website
Client: Anson Mills
Year started working together: 2012
Anson Mills grows and mills heirloom grains from the antebellum South. In the course of building their Web presence, we created a custom content management system for recipes, an essential part of their mission (their grains don’t cook like their modern-day counterparts). We also built their online retail and wholesale shops.
Technology employed: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Shopify, MailChimp, Rackspace Managed Cloud
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EngageRX
Client: School of Medicine Technology Services at UCSF
Year started working together: 2019
EngageRx is an application developed for UCSF that provides focused information for physicians who are treating patients with hypertension, a frequently undertreated condition. It uses FHIR APIs to gather the patient’s medical history and analyzes it with a custom physician-provided algorithm. EngageRx is tightly integrated with Epic and is installed at both UCSF and NYU.
Technology employed: Node, Express, React, Postgres, Docker, AWS, FHIR APIs, Epic integration
Here are some of our completed projects:
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Decide + Be Ready
Client: Defence Health Agency
Based on My Birth Control, we built Decide + Be Ready as a native mobile app at client’s request.
Technology employed: React Native, Redux
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Informed - Vehicle Sales Administration System
Client: Informed
We helped Informed launch their initial product, which offered consumer auto loans at competitive rates for cars found on Craigslist, AutoTrader and elsewhere. We created an inventory curation system that collates information from posted offers with Blue Book, vehicle history and other data to vet offers and inform purchase decisions.
Technology employed: Rails, Rails, React, Redux, PostgeSQL, Heroku; Kelley Blue Book and Edmunds APIs
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My Theo - Mobile Service Backend
Client: myTheo
myTheo is a mobile platform that provides real estate agents with the tools they need to do their job on the go, and prospective buyers with a way to research properties they’re interested in. Agents and their clients can collaborate, sharing properties, notes and messages.
We built the core service that powers the platform. It aggregates property listings, photos and open house schedules from multiple real estate markets, geocodes property addresses and makes all this information available to applications.
Technology employed: Ruby, Rails, libRETS, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3)
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My HIV Prevention
Client: University of California, San Francisco
In a partnership with the Flordia Health Department, a research team at the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program at University of California, San Francisco developed this HIV prevention tool, and we built the webapp.
Technology employed: Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, React, Typescript