Playpen Labs

We build and launch software products using design thinking and agile development. Our goal is to scale projects into scalable businesses. In addition, we work with clients to do onboarding, help desk consulting, web development, user research and testing.

Rockwood Leadership Institute is a nonprofit based in Oakland, Ca. They specialize in leadership training for philanthropic and social impact leaders. We were first approached by Rockwood to assist with troubleshooting problems experienced when sending emails from their Rails application. Their original Rails application was developed in 2008 and had become a mix of now unsupported and depreciated libraries. Read More...

Soldsie is an e-commerce service enabling businesses to sell directly to their Facebook fans and Instagram followers through comments. The system automates posting of products, scraping comments as well as invoicing and payments processing. We worked with Soldsie to streamline and optimize the onboarding experience for new Soldsie customers. The previous experience was manual consisting of a series of one-to-one interactions between the new customer and Soldsie account manager. Read More...

Smart Sparrow is an education technology start-up focused on the commercialization of an adaptive learning technology. The Smart Sparrow software tools are a web-based suite for the building of adaptive learning content and applications. Smart Sparrow needed an algebra simulation built on their learning platform for the purposes of demoing add-on capabilities. Read More...

Stitch.es is a social commerce platform. It allows users to earn cash rewards for shopping online and share product collections with friends. We worked with Stitch.es to implement their vision of saving their users money through social shopping recommendations. Read More...

WordsLiive is an educational service provider based in Washington, D.C. They are invited into classrooms across the nation where they have the opportunity to teach literacy skills through their program which leverages hip hop lyrics. Read More...