So the other day we were working on a new feature. We like to build "just enough", which is to say "build less" of a feature, so that we can get it out into the wild and get feedback from users. We thought, "why build code to test when we can could just talk to [...]
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Posted by: Randy Harmon, November 18, 2009
Stopped back by the office to help with the evening deployment of our eBay import the other night, and the deployment wasn't working at all. We troubleshot it down to an issue connecting to GitHub, an open source collaboration we use for code control, probably because of a maintenance activity they were working on. [...]
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Posted by: Randy Harmon, October 29, 2009
Thursday August 6th at 2 PM ET (the post has been corrected from what said Thursday August 5th), Outright will join Shoeboxed for a live webinar answering questions about the integration between the back office partners.
Where Outright handles your books and prepares you for tax time, Shoeboxed does the grunt work for you; scanning receipts [...]
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Posted by: Paul O'Brien, August 4, 2009
Today's a big day for us here at Outright.com - its our one year anniversary. One year ago today, we opened our application for public use.
A lot has happened in the last year. When we started, it was just Ben and I working from our homes. We now have a whole team working out of [...]
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, July 9, 2009
With Estimated Taxes behind us we thought we'd share a brief reprieve, along with our excitement for our new office in downtown Campbell. Just a few weeks ago, we moved to a beautiful, historic building on E. Campbell Ave. with tremendous character both inside and out.
Campbell is a wonderful home for an entrepreneur, with [...]
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Posted by: Paul O'Brien, June 16, 2009
After weeks of research and planning, we are starting to roll out changes to our site to reflect our new name: Outright.com. Here's the new logo:
You may notice some intermittent strangeness as we change from GoBootstrap to Outright, but we should have everything switched over soon.
A special thanks to Jonathan, Ian, Curt, Erica, Sasi, [...]
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, February 6, 2009
Bootstrap has moved into a new office. We're now located in downtown Campbell, California at 33 N. First Street, Suite B. As is fitting, it's big on whiteboard space, short on overhead, and across the parking lot from Starbucks:-)
Thanks much to our new landlord, Todd. He runs a really cool eco-friendly car and scooter business [...]
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, December 2, 2008
Based once again on some great customer feedback, today we released a number of enhancements to improve the Bootstrap experience.
The biggest change was the roll out of SSL, which stands for Secure Socket Layer. This technology encrypts the information that is passed back and forth between your browser and Outright's servers (including the business [...]
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, October 24, 2008
http://twitter.com/outright
We'll continue to use the blog for official announcements and relevant content, but we thought we'd provide folks with a bit more visibility into some of our (random and not so random) thoughts as we work to make accounting and bookkeeping easier for the self-employed.
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, October 13, 2008
One of the most common questions we've received in our first couple of months in the market has been whether customers can export their information if they decide they don't like the experience (or if we start charging too much money.) When we launched, we supported the ability to export your income and [...]
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, September 4, 2008