Hi, everybody!
What an amazing week! Dots reached #2 on the Top Free iPhone apps chart, and it’s on the way to a million players by the end of the day. Thanks so much for playing! There’s a lot more in the works.
How to Score
Squares, square, squares. Squares, or any enclosed shape,…
I love the simplistic, beautiful onboarding experiences that betaworks creates for its apps. The screenshots above are from the first time you open the new Dots game betaworks released. The intro experience for Tapestry was really enjoyable too.
About 3 months ago, Patrick Moberg started experimenting with various iOS interaction designs as part of the hacker in residence program. We didn’t set out to build a game, but quickly realized there’s a desire for well designed mobile entertainment so that’s where we focussed. Patrick worked…
We’re very excited.
Announcing Blend.io. Check it out!
A decade ago, a band called The Postal Service started making songs by sending instrumental tracks back and forth through the United States Postal Service. Oddly enough, the process of musical collaboration hasn’t evolved much since then.
Poncho explains the weather in plain, clear English — just like weather forecasters used to do. But, this time, it’s personal, local and timely.
Sign up and give it a try. Grant had a little fun with the onboarding.
For centuries human beings have been trying to predict the weather, or more precisely what will fall from the sky today. The history of meteorology as a science goes all the way back to Aristotle. Over a century ago, meteorology became advanced enough to start (sort of) reliably predicting weather…
We’re getting ready to climb out of the startup cave. Excited to show all the cool stuff the teams have built.
The past few months have been a little extra-busy at betaworks. While our studio companies continue to grow at a fast pace, a handful of builders (hackers in residence) have been heads-down creating a new wave of products.
Now, we’re entering a new stage of building that we’re very excited to…
Inside the betaworks studio, we build lots of new things each year. We’re firm believers in the open web and we’re firm believers in betas, so today we’ve decided to extend our community to anyone who wants to test our new products before they’re officially released. This expansion is part of a…
A few months ago, two hackers in residence, Alex Chung and Jace Cooke, built something called Giphy. Animated GIFs have existed for decades, but there was still no good way to browse and discover the best the web had to offer. And the vision for Giphy isn’t really just about finding GIFs. It’s…
In the area of RSS, in particular, we’re doubling down, but in ways that we think are different from traditional “RSS Readers.” Our biggest commitment is Bloglovin’, one of our studio companies. Bloglovin’ is a beautiful and simple web-based blog (RSS) reader — that helps you follow the blogs you read by letting you know when they update. Their audience is broad, with over 2 million accounts and a particular strength in women’s lifestyle and fashion. In response to the Google announcement, bloglovin’ released a single-click importer to give users a seamless way to move all of their feeds and favorite blogs to bloglovin’.
