Tech is one of those industries where a year can make the industry unrecognizable.  2023 started with small improvements: a deeper emphasis on first party data, a focus on IOT and internet-enabled devices, Smart products across the board.  Now, at the end of the year, we’re working within a completely different environment than we were […]

Knott’s has been spreading the Christmas cheer since November, but the holiday lights have only just started going up around us. It’s the time of year when Costa Mesa really shines: the seasonal Newport Beach boat parade, the Ventura Parade of Lights, and the retailers getting ready for the busiest and most lucrative time of […]

It’s pretty impressive what you can do with low-code and no-code software – but it’s not surprising.  In 2015, Gartner published a report that said business application demand would increase over 5X what IT developers could deliver by the end of 2017. Since then, we’ve had a global pandemic, a few new social media platforms, […]

Unless you’ve lived in the same place all your life, getting your footing when you’ve moved to a new location can take you a little bit of time. From figuring out when waste collection runs to what events the community puts together, sometimes it’s not enough to just have a church bulletin board or to […]

Introducing our newest hire: Deric McCurry, straight out of Austin, taking over the role of our Director of Accounts. Here’s Deric, in his own words! 1. What’s your earliest tech memory? I didn’t want to work on a farm or outside my whole life, so I sold 5 goats to buy my first laptop when […]

Your mobile app is an extension of your business – and it can be an excellent way to reduce the distance between you and your audience.  We love websites. We think websites are an excellent investment to start your business with, but as useful as a website is, there can be a lot of distance […]

About fifteen minutes’ drive away from the office, there’s a restaurant in Santa Ana that’s been open since the 1930s, and it started out selling tamales. It still sells those tamales, but there’s other things on the menu: breakfast, burritos, tacos, catering. The core of the company hasn’t changed, and it still has those lines […]

Here’s the thing: there’s always going to be a part of your business that you can probably do more effectively – and part of the process of owning, and growing, a business is figuring out what that is.  Maybe when you started out the latest technology was just a webpage; now it’s social media, apps, […]

If it’s been a while since you’ve attended your last in-person event, here’s the thing: as excellent as physical goods are, an app specifically designed to cater for a large-scale event can do a lot to make that event far more enjoyable, and far easier to connect with the attendees. The fact is nearly everyone […]

By May 2023, the number of global IoT connections had increased by 18% to 14.3 billion endpoints – that’s a lot of connected devices, and a lot of room for innovation. Furthermore, we’re looking at the likelihood that by 2027, it’s possible that the amount of connected devices will nearly double, adding thousands of new […]