Repartee

Introducing the party-planning app we built Spaceman Labs to make. A tour of the cool tech under the hood — from Foursquare venue lookup to time zone awareness to a photo stream that sizes shots by interestingness.

Compares

Announcing Compares, our side-by-side photo sharing app. Built from scratch with a custom backend, onion-skinning camera, and a social layer for sharing before-and-after shots.

SMShadowedLayer

A CALayer subclass that fakes realistic lighting and shadows during Core Animation. Uses Lambert illumination math and a custom animatable property to keep shading correct mid-transform, specular highlights included.

Goodnight Safari

We shipped a kids’ interactive storybook and learned a ton doing it. Custom animation frameworks, texture atlases, audio — the whole nine yards of getting out of our comfort zone.

Sim Deploy

A drag-and-drop tool for getting simulator builds to non-developers. It even supports a custom URL scheme so distributing a new build is as simple as sending someone a link.