Atlantis Technology

Web Development

Web apps keep improving.  Evolving standards such as HTML5 and CSS3, along with powerful development frameworks and libraries like Ruby on Rails and jQuery enable modern web apps to provide rich and responsive interfaces to users across an increasingly diverse set of desktop and mobile devices.

Our development methodology focuses on the rapid creation of minimal-viable-products and prototypes for our clients.  Upon this foundation, we practice iterative development backed by user engagement data from the functioning app.  By taking advantage of server vitalization and cloud computing, we ensure scalability on demand without paying for unused capacity.

We’re fortunate to work with some great clients who we admire and respect.  And we enjoy working with these tools to support and share in their successes.  Let us know what you want to build—we’d love to be your agile development team.

Mobile Applications

Apple’s iPhone introduced a new paradigm for mobile computing in 2007 and we were eager to develop for the platform, first through web applications and later, upon introduction of App Store, our own native apps.

We believe that applications with location-based layers and functions have the most potential for innovation, given the unique circumstances of mobile computing and handset capabilities.

We support the private development of mobile applications for our clients, and occasionally release our own apps as well.  Our simplest app, released days after the App Store launch, predicts the tides schedule at the nearest beach.  tideApp has over 600,000 users on all 7 continents (even Antarctica).

Venture Financing

At Atlantis, we’ve been on many sides of technology ventures--development, sales, marketing, and recruitment.  As software engineers ourselves, we believe we have an aptitude for identifying the next-generation of web infrastructure tools and those who create them.

Our under-development venture capital fund will focus on supporting web infrastructure startups.  We believe that these emerging companies, ideally led by technical co-founders, are doing the meaningful work of building the future.

Rails Recruitment

If you love building things, you probably love Ruby on Rails. The framework enables agile web development teams to create and iterate faster and more enjoyably. We began using Rails for many internal and client projects shortly after its extraction from Basecamp and we haven’t looked back.

Rails didn’t just help us build better web apps, it introduced us to the most welcoming and nourishing developer community we’ve experienced. Since everyone using the framework is relatively new to it, yet comes from diverse technical backgrounds and abilities, a genuine camaraderie has developed that we’re proud to be a part of. Rails is a modern-day melting pot of technologists and makers.

We like to say we’re “developers helping other developers,” but the great thing about the Rails community is that we’re not the only ones. In fact, “developers helping developers” may be as appropriate a tagline for the framework as “web development that doesn’t hurt.” Rails developers generously mentor and recruit new coders every day.

And Rails developers are in demand! In the last few years, more and more of the startups we work with have selected Ruby on Rails as their development framework. We created mirRoR Placement to help connect Rails developers with these agile startups.

As developers, we’ve always hated recruiters but we thought the Rails community would support a service that did things differently for both startups and developers. Since 2006 we’ve helped match hundreds of developers with exciting startups. We’ve met some great people and had the opportunity to contribute to some amazing ideas.

Wifi Systems

Intrigued by the emerging WiFi standard, we developed our own WiFi Operational Support System (OSS), guestBOX, in 2002 to support custom deployments of public WiFi.  Offering free, paid, or loyalty access, guestBOX grew to become New England’s largest independent WiFi network.

We’ve enjoyed helping our customers in the restaurant, transportation, hospitality, education, and automotive industries generate labor-free revenue and enhance customer loyalty.

Recently, we’ve developed new WiFi OSS solutions for enterprises managing thousands of devices, and launched RefreshingWiFi, a simple solution for small independent coffee shops.