An API for Staction. It’s a pretty exciting concept to us and one that many Staction users have been asking about for some time. With a public API, all sorts of things are possible – after all, the goal of an API is to give you access to your data from outside of an app. And there certainly is a lot of data in Staction. We’ve been putting in a lot of thought into what an API for Staction might look like. Keep Reading

This was part of the description on the back of a bottle of wine I was enjoying with a friend a few years back. At the time we got a huge laugh out of this phrase because it seemed quite out of place to describe wine, and a particularly cheap one at that, as something that could be focused and deliberate. It’s taken me a few years to see what they were alluding to with that lofty pronouncement but underlying those two words are concepts that can help take your project to the next level. Keep Reading

One of my favorite books is the Tao Te Ching. I read it first back in college when we all cast about for new ideas, and new schools of thinking (I still cast about quite a bit!) I have it now on audiobook, and I listen to it often. It’s a great brainstorming tool, and it really opens up your mind to alternate possibilities. Every time I listen to it, depending on where my mind was before starting, I take away something different. This last time I started out by thinking “how does the Tao apply to Apps?” -Here are a few takeaways. Keep Reading

Most of the time when you assign a task, you assign it to a specific person. This avoids duplicative work, and compartmentalizes accountability. Staction makes it easy; you just add their name as a tag to a todo post.

But did you know you could add more than one person? Keep Reading

Internally, we’ve been talking a lot about managing growth and getting more organized. We’re a small company, super small in the grand scheme. So the fact that both Jumpchart and Staction each grow a little every single day creates a new job description for each of us daily. When we started building web apps, we thought these things would be our job: Keep Reading

As you might have already noticed (or if you’re an RSS reader, you may not have) we’ve updated the look of our blog and we finally have a Paste homepage! Please let us know what you think of the redesign in the comments!

Recently we’ve been thinking about how to more effectively use Staction; and, being programmers and designers our minds first turned towards graphical or programmatic methods that we could implement in order to speed up our work flow within the app. But in the end, the most graceful solution turned out to be the simplest one; and typically, the hardest one to see. Keep Reading

The excitement of launching your app has passed, the rush of emails and tweets and blog posts has subsided, and now you find yourself asking, “What do I do now?”. Maintaining the motivation and the desire to keep updating and improving your app can be really difficult. We’re going to share just a few techniques that have worked well for us during the development, launch and update cycles of both our web apps, Jumpchart and Staction. Clearly, these ideas may not suit your app or your workflow, so please read on with a grain of salt. But if one or more of these ideas do work for you, all the better! Keep Reading

Since launching our group communication tool, Staction, in January we’ve been blessed with quite a few nice words and plenty of user suggestions. We love hearing suggestions – it’s always good to hear how our users would change Staction because it gives us great insight into how people are using Staction.

Well, you asked and we listened: Today, we’ve upgraded the user and storage allowances on all Staction plans. Keep Reading

Now that the new Jumpchart has been released into the wild we thought we’d write a few posts focusing on some of the most important new features that have come to Jumpchart. In this first post we’ll be looking at the new Export to WordPress option, what it means for your workflow, and why it’s the most important new addition to Jumpchart. Keep Reading