We’re Very Good Software

— a small team running Flipper and Fireside. We like building software, and we try to make it a little better every day. Hence the name. It’s a goal rather than a statement.

Web app Flipper is beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby and Rails. Turn a feature on for one person, a group, or a percentage of everyone, and off again without a deploy. It started in July 2012 as an open source gem, and Flipper Cloud is there for teams. The blog has news and guides.

Web app Fireside is podcast hosting with personal support. Your podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly. Listeners find it in every podcast app, and you get clear analytics. When you write in, one of the people who build it writes back. It started in July 2015, and the blog has news and guides.

iOS app Coming soon Formfluent will help you practice and improve your basketball shot at home or on the court, with or without a ball or hoop.

Web app Coming soon Flare will help you and your agents monitor application performance and see what needs attention, with less noise and lower costs.

A Small Company. A Short Cast.

We’ve been building and growing SaaS apps for decades. Along the way, we’ve built, sold, and bought companies, and worked at GitHub, Postmark, and on Words With Friends.

Our Podcasts

Standing in the Fire
Three of us talking about podcasting and running a small software business.
The Friday Deploy
Two of us talking about feature flags, deploys, and incidents.

You Might Be Familiar with Some of Our Other Work

Ruby Gems

John

httparty
A Ruby library for talking to web services.

Garrett

minitest-heat
Shows Minitest results so it’s easier to see where to look first.
reviewer
Runs your tests, linters, and other checks with one command.
generated
Sets up a Rails generator’s arguments, options, and templates from the command line.

Other Current Apps

Hyper
Your app’s sign ups, payments, and cancellations, live on a map, in a feed, and in email digests. Steve built it.
Box Out
Sports graphics for school athletic departments. John and Steve work on it together.
Speaker Deck
A place to share slides from talks. John and Steve started it, and Kris runs it now.

Apps from the Past

Sifter
Simple issue tracking. Garrett built it and later sold it.
Gauges
Real-time web analytics. John and Steve built it.
Harmony
Website management. John and Steve built it.

Books

Frictionless Generators
On writing custom Rails generators. By Garrett, published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Starting & Sustaining
On starting and running a small software business. By Garrett.