We're very pleased to release this latest testimonial from one of our happy clients at AgilityFeat. Wellbeing Consult is an Australian startup that came to us because of our team's expertise in WebRTC and TokBox. We worked with them...
Our WebRTC.ventures team participated at TADHack Chicago and won the Telestax award for our hack entry of an Apple Watch app that monitors your heart rate and notifies loved ones if you are having a heart attack. You can read the full...
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on how to use an Arduino to control a DC motor's speed and direction as part of an on-going project of building a WebRTC controlled webcam. This week we're taking that same build to the next level by adding...
This is the first in a series of posts I'm going to be writing in order to achieve the goal of having a WebRTC controlled webcam through an Arduino. The final build will consist of a webcam attached to a DC motor which will be controlled...
I'm writing a series over at Real Time Weekly about using WebRTC on iOS, specifically to document the research we've been conducting in order to release a couple of iPhone apps, based on WebRTC, under AgilityFeat's brand. One of these...
Did you know you can apply effects to your WebRTC video stream using WebGL Shaders? And quite easily I might add. This is a demo I assembled in about an hour: That's a real time video conference call and I applied an Edge Shader to...
Today we're going to play around with real-time data transfers using PubNub and animated charts using D3.js. We'll use these tools to build an interactive bar chart which reacts to data sent from a different browser window. When we're...
Let me preface this post by saying that PhoneGap, Ionic, Titanium and Cordova are fantastic, easy to use tools which allow us to garner the simplicity of Javascript within iOS. They bridge a very wide gap between web and native in several...
We're passionate about building beautiful, valuable products at AgilityFeat. We're also passionate about Futbol and Music so when we were approached working on a project that combines all three passions, we jumped at the opportunity. The...
Last week, thousands of techies descended on Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive. As one might expect, the Internet of Things or IoT was a hotter topic than where to get the best barbeque (here's my recommendation by the way). The interest...
PubNub, a leading provider of real time messaging infrastructure for internet applications, published a case study this week on Decisiv, one of our clients here at AgilityFeat. Decisiv provides Software as a Service (SaaS) to the trucking...
One of our most fun projects in 2014 was working with lean startup entrepreneur Steph Hay. Steph came to us with a number of project ideas, and through brainstorming sessions we all agreed to tackle a "baseball cards for CrossFitters"...
A few months back we shared the inside scoop on building Pickasound, the social music collaboration platform founded by Toju Ometoruwa and Adam Koehler. Now, the world is taking notice. Recently, the application was featured in a piece...
How do you blend a distributed offshore team with your in-house development team? Our teams are based around Latin America and our clients are often in the United States. When you want to hire a team from another part of the world and...
In early 2014, we were approached by an entrepreneur who wanted to build a new type of music collaboration application. The application would allow musicians to exchange ideas and build songs together via the web without any type of...
If you're interested in working in one of the nicest small cities in the US (Charlottesville, Virginia), with a very interesting education business (Teachstone), and you want the side benefit of working with our team at AgilityFeat, then...
Building software to manipulate files is always tricky, however when we are talking about audio files and specifically about the Web Audio API in HTML5, this challenge gets significantly more difficult. In this post, we will look at the...
Last week had me beaming with pride when I got the news that former AgilityFeat client nPulse Technologies has been acquired by FireEye for $60 million. TechCrunch described what both companies do this way: FireEye helps companies detect...
AgilityFeat is notable for attracting clients who are looking into working with cutting-edge technologies, and thanks to that, recently, I've had the amazing opportunity to dive in head-first into researching about and experimenting with...
For the past two months I've had the pleasure of working with incredible Steph Hay on the development of her application, Tougher.Me. Tougher.Me is Steph's first web product and we asked her to share some of her experiences talking to...
2014 is only 9 days old and before we get too far into the new year, we wanted to take a look back at our top posts from 2013. We covered a great deal of ground last year on our blog, including our experiences developing products via...
Most people are aware of the benefits of integrating Facebook into their web site. Integrating Facebook Connect makes it easier for users to login and stay connected to your site. Further, the information that Facebook will provide back...
One of the most fun things that I get to do is to speak with entrepreneurs about their business ideas. Most of the time, they are contacting me to find out how much it will cost to build their idea (or re-build their product). As one...
Simple business lessons from Cinco de Mayo, mint juleps and chinese food Eric Ries defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”. Here at AgilityFeat, we...
If you are like me, you have a sixth sense that tells you that when a new market is about to appear, or a new way to interact with your customers is about to appear, you should be the first one to provide a solution in that new arena. You...