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WARNING: Tweets of Fury Will Ruin Your Life
OK, not really. But it might ruin a friendship, your reputation on Twitter, or your hopes for a productive day at work. The latest Pointless Corp project is by far our most destructive and menacing...
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HeyCraig Goes International!
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...
View ArticleFeedStitch Featured on Lifehacker
Jason Fitzpatrick has a nice little write-up on Lifehacker called FeedStitch Combines Multiple Feeds Into One. Yep, good title — that’s the idea in a nutshell. Judging by the surge in traffic to the...
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Serve Your Customers
Here at FeedStitch, we care about our customers (and would-be customers). So much, in fact, that we make it our business to appeal to their egos first and their problems second. This exchange sums up...
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Theft
Update (7/18/09): The offending image has been removed (along with the ClinicalReader Twitter account … strange.) We owe a great deal of our early success to FeedStitch’s fantastic visual design. What...
View ArticleHeyCraig on Lifehacker
Lifehacker has their eye on Pointless Corp again, this time Adam Pash providing coverage. This week he wrote about HeyCraig, our super simple tool for getting alerts via email when new items go up on...
View ArticleIntroducing... Connect-A-Sketch
It was a dark and stormy night, well after business hours and the pizza was already cold… we were pitching Pointless Corp ideas around the table, writing each of them on the white board without passing...
View ArticleSpeakerRate Internship Opportunity
We love SpeakerRate and believe it has a ton of potential. That’s why we’re inviting an MBA intern to spend the summer working with us as to take SpeakerRate to the next level. We initially called it a...
View ArticleConnect-A-Sketch for Everyone!
Breaking news! We have removed the invitation system from Connect-A-Sketch. The application — in all its alpha glory — is now open to the public! Here are three key points to keep in mind. While C-A-S...
View ArticleSpeakerRate Gets a Blog and an Intern
If SpeakerRate is the Pointless Product you care about most, you certainly want to keep up on the new SpeakerRate blog. The primary author will be Zach Robbins, our summer intern focusing on product...
View Article2011 Will Be More Pointless
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...
View ArticleHeyCraig Operational Again
Hey everyone. We’ve been getting some great emails from folks about how useful they find HeyCraig (thanks!) but recently it was having problems. Sorry about that! We just want to let you know that: We...
View ArticlePointless Weekend = 3 New Pointless Project
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...
View ArticleNew Pointless Project: I Dig Durham
There’s a lot of love at Viget South for our adopted hometown of Durham, NC. A few of us decided to use the first Pointless Weekend to build a tiny application to highlight some of Durham’s finer...
View ArticleWeekend Recap on Viget
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...
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2012 Pointless Weekend Kicks Off
We’ve been pretty quiet over here at Pointless Corp. headquarters lately. It’s been a busy year at Viget, frankly, and paying clients have been the priority. That’s about to change, at least for a...
View ArticleLaunching Soon: BabyBookie.com
We’re only about 5 hours away from our launch target, and the Pointless Weekend team at Viget HQ (near DC) is making great progress. We’ve gone from wireframes to draft comps and paper sketches to...
View ArticleNew Pointless Project: OfficeGames
We’re a competitive company, so for this year’s Pointless Weekend, the team in Viget’s Durham office thought it’d be cool to put together a simple app for keeping track of competitions around the...
View ArticleNew Project: Tincan'd
When you were a kid, did you ever make a telephone out of two tin cans and a string? I did. It never worked very well, but it sure was simple. Wouldn’t it be great if there were an equally simple way...
View ArticleA Holiday Treat for You: Jinglebots!
Jealous of our parent corporation’s tradition of handmade holiday gifts, Pointless Corp. set out to create a tradition of our own this holiday season: Jinglebots. Handcrafted with cardboard and love,...
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