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We offer end-to-end app development that scales from thousands to millions of users. 
We understand all the buzzwords – serverless, ML, AI, blockchain – and know when (and when not) to use them. 
 
Whether you’re looking at a new app to offer more customer value or a back-end product to manage your data, we’re here to help.

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We will help you build digital products you (and your customers) will love!

We provide end-to-end technical solutions for enterprise, brands, digital agencies, and startups.

Products, MVPs, and Startups

Visible Magic is a US-based team of developers, designers, and dreamers who built a company to solve a huge problem in the tech space: 
too many ideas die on the vine because tech talent is unavailable or too expensive. 
 
Our team uses a hybrid dev model to ensure high-quality work at low prices - and we promise to walk with you every step of the way.

GET THE BOOK

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Our co-founder wrote the book on how it works.

Serverless computing is radically changing the way we build and deploy applications. 
 
This hands-on book shows experienced programmers how to build and deploy scalable machine learning and deep learning models using serverless architectures with Microsoft Azure.

What is serverless?

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We know startups.

Our co-founder, John Biggs, was a former editor for TechCrunch and knows the pain startups face. Drop us a line and grab his book on getting funded.

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Our team knows what you're going through. All of them are startup founders and we are aware that VC funding is drying up. You need to use your resources wisely and well. We can help.

With over 20 years of experience in building (and writing about) startups, the VM team can help you build on time and under budget.

We build YOUR TECH, You build YOUR BUSINESS.

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HypeHop pays real cash to users who watch videos online. It watches users as they watch the videos and rewards their time and attention.

Our client wanted to pay users for watching important videos. Excited to explore what this meant, we built a crypto-based platform that uses facial recognition technology to ensure that users who signed up actually watched the videos they agreed to watch.

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Watch and get paid

The video stopped if the viewer looked away and, once the video was done, viewers could be scored for attentiveness and interest.

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An elegant solution to a sticky problem

In order to keep users incentivized to participate they were instantly paid by cryptocurrency. 

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Real Machine Learning

This was one of our favorite projects as it hit all the buzzwords - AI, ML, and blockchain! Best of all? It works like a charm.

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The Result?

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Project Screenshots

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Prototyping

UI/UX Design

Programming

What We Did

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Transcription for pennies. CheapTranscription turns an expensive proposition into something cheap, easy, and instant.

A team needed a quick and easy solution for transcription. We helped architect a technical and business solution that was viable, affordable, and profitable.

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Speech Recognition for Pennies

Our experience in machine learning allowed us to wire up a workable solution that transcribes high-quality recordings in a matter of minutes with high accuracy.

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First, hire the robots

First, hire the robots.

But we also built a business solution for those times when consumers wanted the human touch. We solved the business challenges of hiring people to do extremely nuanced work with a minimum of back-and-forth.

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Then find the humans...

After completing the MVP in just a few days, we went on to fully productize the offering and create the cheapest and fastest transcription platform on the Internet.

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And launch!

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Jaywalk needed an iOS and Android app that was powerful, easy-to-use, and international. The team at Visible Magic build the app in a few months. 

The client wanted an app-based social network that connects users with unique health-related sensors and rewards them with discounts for their activity. We consulted with Jaywalk to build their business model and network of participating locations while simultaneously building their technical solution from stem to stern.

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An app that tracks health and wealth.

The app had to run on both Android and iOS and it had to be rock solid and location accurate. Using a combination of Swift, Java, and Django, the team put together all the parts needed to build an app that looked like a million bucks and cost much less.

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Android and iOS and a great back end? We built it.

To achieve the incentive for participation, we developed JayCoin—the company's internal currency to pay users. More than just payment though, it is a virtual bank that keeps track of balances in real time.

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Create a JayBank.

Android and iOS apps came together in a few months and suddenly Jaywalk users walked over 100,000 miles using the app. Not bad for a health startup.

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On the road

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Mobile App

Work Performed

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TICON needed a solution to build a financial information and ratings service that provides news, market data, and research for cryptocurrencies.

TICON knew that the crypto world was saturated. How could they stand out? Visible Magic realized they needed to build something beautiful, usable, and powerful.

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A crowded market

Crypto is a unique market. Many users depend on the desktop experience to research and trade but often use mobile devices for updates. We built a powerful desktop-first solution that could also be used on a mobile device.

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Mobile and desktop

An app like this one had to be beautiful and clear. We built a solution that was easy to understand and information-dense.

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Design first

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Screenshots

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Open Website

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Managing new energy sources is a massive task but Visible Magic created a system that meters, maintains, and controls the way energy is used globally.

The client needed blockchain-enabled IoT nodes to create a power usage marketplace.

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A blockchain energy marketplace

We worked with AT to make a robust, AWS-backed, check-in app that went far beyond prototype to a fully productized offering that can support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.

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A robust, scalable solution

We interacted with the company's smart energy meters in order to create an end-to-end solution for the project. It was a massive lift and Visible Magic pulled if off on time.

We build YOUR TECH, You build YOUR BUSINESS.

We will help you build digital products you (and your customers) will love!

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