As promised, we’ve shared a bit more info about last weekend in this recap on Viget.com. Some of the notes include: (1) the core of any software project team is a software developer. Without a developer, you won’t get much software development done. (2) Having an awesome designer on hand is great for results and [...]
We’ll do a more complete recap soon, but to summarize some tweets from the past couple of days: we just wrapped up our first official Pointless Weekend. Inspired by the Rails Rumble (which we often participate in), we formed Viget teams and started work at 6 pm on Thursday, finishing at 6 pm on Saturday. [...]
Happy New Year! I just got a peek at the new design for this site and it is sweet. We’ll be building it out over the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for an all new pointlesscorp.com launching soon. We’re also cooking up some new Pointless Projects to share with everyone, so [...]
Here at Pointless Corp. we always aim to please. A lot of people liked HeyCraig, our craigslist search and automatic notification application, but were upset to find out it was limited to cities in the United States. Well, not anymore! We’re pleased to announce that people living in the following countries will now be able [...]
In case you missed it, the always inspiring Doug Avery wrote a great post on Viget’s Inspire blog about the design process he went through to create the Pointless Corp. logo. I was there for the early sketches of hydras, half-amputated fingers, and platypuses (platypi?). The bear-on-a-bike sketch, though, immediately jumped out at all of us. What could [...]
As you can see in a couple places on this site if you look carefully, Pointless Corp. is neither pointless nor a corporation. It’s a place where we folks from Viget Labs can get together to build little web projects when we’re not busy with client work. In some ways, it’s nothing new — like most consulting [...]