Visible Magic is committed to supporting and fostering disruptive technology projects such as blockchain and Web3 initiatives. Our clients rely on us to provide custom software and innovative solutions that empower them to lead their industries and stay ahead of the curve.

Our team collaborates with clients on groundbreaking blockchain projects that offer enhanced security, transparency, and decentralized solutions to traditional systems. Similarly, we work on cutting-edge Web3 projects, enabling decentralized applications (dApps) and fostering a more open, user-centric internet ecosystem.

At Visible Magic, we take pride in our ability to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of technology. As new advancements emerge, we stay up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in the blockchain and Web3 space. This commitment ensures that our clients receive the most relevant and effective solutions for their specific needs.

By partnering with us, our clients gain access to a wealth of expertise and knowledge in blockchain and Web3 technologies. Our collaborative approach ensures that every project is tailored to the unique requirements of each client, resulting in exceptional outcomes that drive growth and success in their respective industries.

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<p>Our client saw that millennials didn&#8217;t want to use their parents’ social networks, especially when it came to location sharing and check-in.</p>
<p>However, there was still an appetite for a fun, creative way to schedule, share, and discuss events. They asked us to make a new way to share locations and to turn loose plans into firm meetups.</p>


<p>We worked with AT to make a robust, AWS-backed, check-in app that went far beyond prototype to a fully productized offering. The app could scale to support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.</p>
<p>We designed entire architecture on top of the AWS stack – AppSync, DynamoDB, Cognito and other powerful systems. The client app is a native iOS application which consumes data in real-time with background synchronization and an offline mode.</p>


<p>The result was a powerful location and scheduling tool that mixes your digital self with your real-world experiences. It&#8217;s instantly scalable, beautiful, and runs like a dream.</p>


Serverless systems are the future. We wrote the book on them. Let's talk.

Serverless Backend

The sum of the parts (prototype, UX strategy/design, and programming development) coming together for a complete product

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Identifying the best technology to meet the user and design needs so that an elegant and efficient solution can come to life

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Our client wanted to turn quick plans into meetups with friends. We built an app that turns "Maybe later" into "See you soon!"<br />
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But more than that, this concept makes the mobile "check in" relevant again, by making it more about function than showing off.

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<p>Before all the NFT and bitcoin media hype a client approached us with a question: could we pay people to watch videos? The short answer was “Yes,” but how could you be sure that the user was actually paying attention? And how could you ensure the cash would get to the right place?</p>
<p>The client had tried a few clever tricks to get this thing to work but nothing would do exactly what they wanted.</p>
<p>They turned to Visible Magic for website development and the results were extraordinary.</p>


<h2>Who is HypeHop?</h2>


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<p>HypeHop wanted to pay real cash to users who watch videos online. To do this, it had to have a way to watch users. Visible Magic created a system that let users watch the videos and rewarded their time and attention.</p>
<p>The solution was complex: because users were wary, the team wanted a secure way to confirm users were watching their videos without invading user privacy. The functional requirements also stated that the system should be able to use machine learning algorithms to recognize emotion and disinterest by watching an anonymized model of the user’s face.</p>
<p>Because the technology was potentially invasive, we also had to be very careful to ensure absolute user anonymity. Because the users were paid in cryptocurrency and their faces were never stored on the backend, we could promise users that their wallets could never be cross-correlated with their faces. That said, the stakes were high: these kinds of tools were difficult to build and expensive to maintain. They were taking a flyer here and they wanted something under budget in order to test their hypothesis.</p>


<h2>The Problem</h2>


<p>Visible Magic launched the product in four weeks. The first two weeks were spent creating the complex, blockchain-based backend and front-end facial recognition system. The rest of the time was spent adding features and finalizing the interface.</p>
<p>The front end was a React application connected to a customized video player that connected to a computer vision system. The backend used a Node.js for the blockchain interaction and the team then used a number of pre-computed face-tracking models to add the eye tracking functionality. The final part, the emotion sensing, took a few days.</p>
<p>The app used many ready-made AWS services as well as custom code written for Visible Magic’s stable of crypto projects.</p>
<p>After launch, the team realized that fraud was a real concern. Users would watch the same video over and over again just to gather free cryptocurrency. To fix this, Visible Magic added a biometric and IP-based tracking system that would flag users who might be abusing the system.</p>
<p>Because the app was supposed to work on both desktop and mobile, the team began testing the computer vision model on a number of phones.</p>
<p>“We faced a lot of pain in working with a mobile browser because it was really hard for mobile phones to track computer vision in real time while playing a video and buffering the stream,” said Visible Magic CTO Viktor Shpak. “It was quite complex and our mobile phones were burning up during testing because they were doing so many things at once. After a bit of coding, however, we had a reactive app that worked on the desktop and the phone.”</p>
<p>Once Visible Magic worked out the bugs, HypeHop could prevent repeat offenders from stealing too many views and the system even allowed them to embed the video player on other pages, a feature that was a “nice to have” and became surprisingly popular.</p>


<h2>The Solution</h2>


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<p>The final product was a success. Visible Magic and HypeHop teamed up to build something highly unique and the company was pleased with the results. “Visible Magic makes the hard things easy,” one client rep told us during a final call.</p>


<h2>The Result</h2>


<h2>Work Performed</h2>


Products, MVPs, and Startups

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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.

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<p>The client needed blockchain-enabled IoT nodes to create a power usage marketplace.</p>


<h2>A blockchain energy marketplace</h2>


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<p>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.</p>


<h2>A robust, scalable solution</h2>


<p>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.</p>


<h2>Smart everything</h2>


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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.

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Blockchain App

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<p>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.</p>


<h2>An app that tracks health and wealth.</h2>


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<p>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.</p>


<h2>Android and iOS and a great back end? We built it.</h2>


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<p>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.</p>


<h2>Create a JayBank.</h2>


<p>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.</p>


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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. 

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


<h2>Speech Recognition for Pennies</h2>


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<p>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.</p>


<h2>First, hire the robots.</h2>


<p>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.</p>


<h2>Then find the humans…</h2>


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<p>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.</p>


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

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<h2>A crowded market</h2>


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<p>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.</p>


<h2>Mobile and desktop</h2>


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


<h2>Design first</h2>


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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.

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<p>Our platform allows any businesses to easily attract investments via cryptocurrencies, tokens or classic currencies. We provide ready services and implementation frameworks.</p>
<p>Any business can mint and sell its tokens* on our platform without expensive commitments to ICO-campaigns.</p>
<p>We provide investors with tools for identifying and preventing high-risk and scam projects.</p>


<h2>Who is EveryWallet?</h2>


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<p>Our clients &#8211; “non-crypto” business seeking investments. We ensure its token circulation:</p>
<p>Enable its token sale to already existing or target auditory via fiat or cryptocurrencies</p>
<p>Token circulation in existing business infrastructure: accept token as an online payment method, make payments with tokens at PoS-terminals, branded online-wallet, API – mass payments, money transfers, etc.</p>
<p>Accept token as an online payment method on other sites already working with our system</p>


<h2>Service package for business</h2>


<p>Shopping cart interface for users</p>


 Stand-alone payment page with accepted crypto-currencies 

For multi-currency shopping cart conversion rates are defined from the preferred source

Integration with PoS terminals or applications available over API

Merchant directory to get listed on site 

Withdrawal of cryptocurrency to their own wallet

API for third-party websites to accept fiat- and crypto-payments through payments gateway

Web-hooks to notify merchant web-sites when payments is processed  (required confirmations threshold is met)

<p>Minted token functions as classic security paper and can be traded like on classic stock exchanges.<br />
We plan to launch all range of classic stock exchange tools on our platform.<br />
Legal part will be complied with existing cryptocurrency legislation in target regions</p>


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EveryWallet is a powerful crypto trading platform written for maximum scalability and usability.

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<p>Adept Marketing is a full-service creative agency in central Ohio. Their growing list of clients sometimes brings utilization challenges. They tapped Visible Magic to help bring their work to life during times when their technical resources are maxed out. One such project was “Patience’s Journey” for Compassion International. Compassion International is a nonprofit whose sponsorship model has helped 1.9 million children worldwide. “Patience’s Journey” was a success story explaining how the Compassion program helped one young woman, named Patience, escape poverty. The proposed learning experience would serve as a teaching tool to get the value of the program across.</p>


<h2>Who is Adept Marketing and who is Compassion International?</h2>


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<p>The Covid19 Pandemic disrupted the typical method that Compassion used to educate volunteers and supporters— involving a semi-truck that travels the United States and sets up in a community for a few days. Within the truck’s trailer is a realistic representation of a developing country&#8217;s environment where participants step into the environment to experience the story of a child growing up in that setting. That experience served as a successful channel for the brand, driving many conversions by inspiring people to sponsor a child, and the original plan was to host Patience’s Journey within that mobile environment. However, with lockdowns in place across most of the country, in-person meetings became impossible. Adept was tasked with solving this problem and came to us to help activate their designs.</p>


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<p>Adept proposed an advanced, highly interactive website design that utilized looping, fullscreen background video as well as ambient sound effects and more. However this had also had to work seamlessly on mobile devices where that kind of interaction could be battery-intensive.</p>
<p>When all the requirements were assessed, we identified:</p>


The need to build a sophisticated video player

The need to include audio, subtitles, autoplay, and mobile support

The need to be programmatically controllable from the application

All features needed to work seamlessly across multiple platforms

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Autoplay wreaked havoc with Safari.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When autoplay was turned on and the user opened a link to a video chapter, the video played. But if the page was reloaded (with F5) then an error was produced that said: “could not play the video because the user must first interact with the document.”</span></p>


<h2>Specific Technical Challenges To Overcome</h2>


Since the video player couldn’t process that error, the whole page behaved incorrectly. (The code logic thought the video was being played, but it wouldn’t play due to an error in the video pause state...which breaks the logic behind the player).

When autoplay was removed and the video was started after loading the page, we got the same error.

We muted the sound and that  eliminated the  error but then the beginning of the video wasn’t able to be heard and the user had to turn on the sound manually and rewind. 

Because of these issues, we thought it would be easier and more consistent to programmatically press the play button, but this caused its own set of issues.

Not all browsers could automatically turn on video with sound when the page loaded (without user input).

When automatic video rewinding (seekTo, currentTime) occurred on page load, Safari blocked playback—you could only rewind after the user clicked the play button.

Auto-rewinding large videos to the desired segment caused audio problems at the beginning of the video To solve this problem we mute the sound in the video until the end of rewinding (player returns the event of the end of rewinding). As an option, in addition to mute, you can show loading indicators.

The task was to include an automatically looped video segment in the background after the end of the main video. When the main video ended, we created a new component. It worked fine in all browsers except Safari. In Safari the video did not start (just a static image) and no errors occurred. Since, in our case, it was the same video with different timelines, we just took the main video and rewound it.

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The final project came together as an intuitive, immersive, bullet-proof video experience that could fill the gap for their travelling road-show. In addition, it was a highly portable experience and could be brought into the homes of hundreds of thousands of potential donors.</span></p>


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Adept Marketing is a full-service creative agency in central Ohio.