Our Thoughts and Stories

It's hard to write when we're always so busy creating for our amazing clients! However, we do find time sometimes to share our thoughts on crafting Rails, iOS and Mac apps out of Knoxville, TN.

Matt

Dad, husband, and Founder of Lotus Apps providing Rails and RubyMotion development out of Knoxville TN. Creator of http://www.gemprospector.com for #ruby devs.
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Recent Posts

3 Tips to Craft More Effective Email Subjects

Sep 18, 2018 | By Matt |

Entrepreneurship, Business

An email subject is your first impression and opportunity to grab a prospect's attention and ...
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3 Tips for Quickly Prioritizing Your Product Backlog

Sep 13, 2018 | By Matt |

Entrepreneurship, Business

Having a healthy product backlog is an important task for any team to tackle to help ensure the ...
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The Hidden Cost of a Cheaper Hourly Rate

Sep 11, 2018 | By Matt |

Entrepreneurship

Everyone expects to get more when paying more, but what do you give up when paying less? There are ...
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Behind the Scenes: Hourly Rate

Sep 07, 2018 | By Matt |

Business

As software craftspeople, we hear it quite often; how did we determine our hourly rate, or why ...
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Announcing OnTrac Point of Sale

Sep 05, 2018 | By Matt |

Business

We're stupid excited to share our latest product launch with our partners at KARM Thrift Stores and ...
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What You're not Asking your Development Partner

Choosing a partner to help build your startup or small business product can be a daunting task and ...
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Our Collaboration with MathStar

Aug 16, 2018 | By Matt |

Business

We enjoyed collaborating with Carol at MathStar and the mobile development team at TouchTap earlier ...
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Interview with CEO of Croozen

Aug 14, 2018 | By Matt |

Business

We're excited to see CEO Gordon Taylor of Croozen discussing product, platform, business and ...
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Announcing School PayIt

Oct 12, 2017 | By Matt |

Business

Every product launch is exciting, but we're really proud of the team's work to bring School PayIt ...
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Using Before Destroy and Has Many in Rails

Aug 03, 2017 | By Matt |

Ruby on Rails, Development

A quick tip for utilizing a before_destroy callback in Rails alongside associations....
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Expanding Objects in Stripe API

Aug 01, 2017 | By Matt |

Ruby on Rails, Development

Learn this quick tip to reduce the number of API requests and speed up your payments integration....
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How We Approach a New Project

Jul 12, 2017 | By Matt |

Entrepreneurship

Learn how we discuss, analyze, suggest and provide a Project Assessment to new customers to guide ...
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Official Launch of Equus Hub for iOS

Jun 26, 2017 | By Matt |

Business

About Equus Hub Equus Hub approached TouchTap to build an iOS application, allowing enthusiasts, ...
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Good Tech Disrupts Established Markets Easily - Trucker Path

Jun 19, 2017 | By Matt |

Business

Tech is Important I love the story of Trucker Path, "Technology Built for the Trucking Industry". ...
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WWDC 2017 and You

Jun 13, 2017 | By Matt |

Business

We're a week after the 2017 WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) keynote and we've taken a few ...
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