Why Hire Thoughtpick?

Because we know we can help you succeed, while delivering the highest quality application development out there.

Thoughtpick offers a few unique services; discussed briefly below:

We can help you “ignite”...

One of the problems Thoughtpick can help you over come when dealing with a newly launched app is how to get your application's first few hundred adopters.

As of April 2010, our web apps and blog have more than 600,000 page views from 100,000+ unique visitors. As part of working with us, you'll get a month of free advertising on our network of applications and an introductory blog post on Thoughtpick Blog. We'll even help you get the exposure you need through our 35,000+ Twitter followers via (@amerkawar, @thoughtpick and @beiruta). If you already have a site that needs advertising, we can help too.

We don't just code, we design engaging apps...

Since the start of 2009, we've been blogging about social media campaigns, web apps, and internet trends at our learn social media by example blog. We learnt many tricks that can help us build applications that are not only engaging, but also have elements to engage potential users and encourage them to spread it within their social circles.

Optimize, optimize, optimize...

For us, optimization means 2 things: lower bandwidth costs for you, and a faster experience for your users.

At Thoughtpick, we spent countless hours learning how optimize using client-side caching, server-side caching, compression, CSS sprites, and a bunch of other tricks, to deliver the best end user experience for your app. You can read more about the performance guidelines we follow at Yahoo and Google's best practices for speeding up web pages.

We (heart) open source...

Linux, PHP, MySQL, the incredible Symfony framework and jQuery Javascript framework are our picks for application development.

SEO is a standard in our development process...

Search Engine Optimization is, as some like to call it, “the art” of optimizing a website to be a piece of cake to index and rank by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. Pretty urls, valid XHTML code, optimum usage of headings and meta tags and hand picked keywords are just a few of the tricks we use.

Don't cut off your users...

We encourage any new app to keep the users involved. Build the fundamental idea, listen to what the users want, and evolve using this feedback. Talk to us, we'd love to help out.