Mote Labs
motelabs.comAs the founder and engineer at Mote Labs I built a product that scaled to over 30k daily active users. I went full on startup mode and learned a lot by doing.
As apart of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013, we were one of fifteen teams Microsoft flew out to Silicon Valley for a week long intensive startup bootcamp.
It was here I was introduced to node.js, and pivoted to build Flinger. Went on to participate in the first class of the RED Labs startup accelerator at the University of Houston.
Chromemote
chromemote.comDesigned, built, and launched Chrome browser extension that grew to nearly thirty five thousand daily active users. It as featured on some of my favorite tech news sites like Lifehacker and Android Central. I originally pitched the idea at 3DayStartup and started Mote Labs over that weekend.
The original UI was written in Java using Google Web Toolkit. Later totally rewrote with just raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I has to implement the the Anymote-protocol in order to enable communication between browser extensions and Google TV set-top devices.
Before there was Chromecast, there was Chromemote. A Google TV remote browser extension. Chromemote was not just a universal remote control on your computer but could also fling content from your browser to a TV. With the ever increasing use of multiple screens while watching TV, it only made sense to me build a browser based smart TV remote.
Flinger
flinger.motelabs.comA cross-platform remote control web application to enable users to control video playback on a second screen web or mobile app. I was able to implement real-time communication through a backend built on ShareDB.
This enabled a virtually unlimited number of remotes to control unlimited viewer screens. I developed a single JavaScript source code for the remote app and ported it to Android, iOS, WindowsPhone, Windows 8, as well as a Chrome browser extension.
In 2014, we returned to win first place in both Microsoft Imagine Cup's pitch video and UI/UX challenges.