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You imagine. We create. Arck Interactive is a boutique, full-stack, digital product design and development agency based in Portland, Oregon. We work with organizations to create custom web and mobile applications that solve complex business problems, automate business processes and bring new and innovative web and mobile platforms to market.
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We’re open-source enthusiasts. Given the right circumstances, we believe it makes the Web (and our lives) better. And our clients agree, because our solutions power some of the country’s most forward-thinking organizations.
Featured ProjectsOur Projects
Laravel-Ionic Platforms
APT212 Luxury NYC Apartment Marketplace
The Challenge: APT212 is an online marketplace for luxury home sales, short term furnished rentals, sublets and room shares in New York city. APT212's founders approached us looking to develop a performance-focused real estate marketplace platform.
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Laravel Platforms
Empyreal75 – Marketing Site
The Challenge: Creative powerhouse Agent Thinking came to us looking to implement a new marketing site for their client, Empyreal 75, on an extremely short schedule.
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vuejs: Vue.JS Platforms
Infusionsoft Appointment Automation
The Challenge: Create a solution to allow Infusionsoft's customers (small business owners) to easily schedule meetings with their own clients.
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vuejs: Vue.JS Platforms
Science Literacy Tool
The Challenge: Partner with the Institute for Learning Innovation to develop an experiential science literacy tool to research the potential for self-measured scientific experimentation and learning.
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Elgg Platforms
EnSight Business Intelligence Network
The Challenge: Develop a cutting-edge platform to be used by Executive Network's service staff as their primary tool for customer information and matching research. The platform is intended to streamline EN's relationship workflow, which was previously a highly manual process involving multiple platforms (Salesforce, Regonline, Outlook).
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Laravel-Ionic Platforms
Dailyclout Billcam
The Challenge: Activist-hero Naomi Wolf came to us wanting to build ways for ordinary people to see legislative bills change in real time, to comment on them and to raise their voices in public more effectively than just sending an email or signing a petition.
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Laravel Platforms
MotivShrimp – Laravel CMS
The Challenge: Create a new marketing site to promote Motiv -- a proprietary bioactive protein used to improve the diet and health of commercially farmed shrimp. Motiv increases the energy uptake of the entire diet — increasing growth, survival and resistance to disease, while producing vibrant color.
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When you’re working on an expedited schedule such as the one set by Infusionsoft, it’s important to have everyone on-board with a clear vision and clear goals.
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InfusionSoft Appointment Automation MVP
Infusionsoft is a software company that is headquartered in Chandler, AZ. It has 361 employees and $133 million in revenue.
Infusionsoft champions the small business owner by automating the minutiae of logistics, so that owners can best use their time to strategize and succeed.
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“In very little time, we established a relationship of trust with Arck and gave their team access to our flagship CRM product. Arck are now stewards of the MVP they developed and co-responsible for managing on-going changes.”
Tyson Brown, Infusionsoft
To solve the pain of appointment scheduling for the small business owner, Tyson had been tasked with introducing a feature to Infusionsoft’s popular CRM (customer relationship management) system for small businesses: an automated appointment scheduler that would save time and make scheduling easier.
In the labs.
We’re always hard at work on new and exciting platforms. Here’s what we’re busy working on right now.
Featured ProjectsSee what we're working on
Laravel-Ionic Platforms
APT212 Luxury NYC Apartment Marketplace
The Challenge: APT212 is an online marketplace for luxury home sales, short term furnished rentals, sublets and room shares in New York city. APT212's founders approached us looking to develop a performance-focused real estate marketplace platform.
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Laravel Platforms
Cargill Sweetbran & Onetrak Content Management System
The Challenge: Develop a cutting-edge marketing site to promote Cargill's Sweetbran/RAMP and Onetrak products.
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vuejs: Vue.JS Platforms
Science Literacy Tool
The Challenge: Partner with the Institute for Learning Innovation to develop an experiential science literacy tool to research the potential for self-measured scientific experimentation and learning.
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Laravel Platforms
MotivShrimp – Laravel CMS
The Challenge: Create a new marketing site to promote Motiv -- a proprietary bioactive protein used to improve the diet and health of commercially farmed shrimp. Motiv increases the energy uptake of the entire diet — increasing growth, survival and resistance to disease, while producing vibrant color.
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Elgg Platforms
Melboss Musician Network
The Challenge: Melboss is a music hub and open marketplace for professionals. We bring individuals involved in the music industry into a professional community that encourages networking and collaboration, as well as provides the necessary opportunities for exposure and services in order to accelerate an artist's career.
They came to Arck seeking to upgrade their Elgg platform to the latest version, refactor and optimize their code base, overhaul the site's UI and migrate to AWS.
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We Laravel.
While we work with many frameworks and stacks, Laravel has a special place in our hearts. We’re one of the first firms to provide a full range of custom Laravel development services. If you’re considering Laravel for a new project, or need help enhancing an existing platform, you’ve come to the right place.
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A 21st Century Approach to Measuring Scientific Literacy
Scientific literacy is a crucial, if ill-defined and sometimes misunderstood, concept in modern scientific discourse. As Carl Sagan wrote, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we…
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Civ.Works -- Civic Engagement Platform
civ.works is a civic engagement platform with an important purpose. As President Eisenhower noted, “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and…
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Public Interest in Scientific Literacy
“Science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions,” says Neil deGrasse Tyson. In this way, it seems that scientific…
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An Interview with Marie Maher of Lullaby Sitters
In this week's Arck Spotlight, we interview Marie Maher, founder and owner of Lullaby Sitters LLC. Lullaby Sitters is a child care services startup that's focused on connecting parents to…
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An Interview with Garret Armes of Nurses Lounge
This week's Q&A is with Garret Armes, co-founder of Nurses Lounge, a professional network for nurses. Nurses Lounge's mission is to connect every nursing school, association, employer, and over 1,000,000 nurses in…
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Solr Lucene Presentation at ElggCamp Italy
ElggCamp Italy is just a few short weeks away. Our very own Matt Beckett is going to be there and giving a presentation on Elgg Search Scalability and Solr integration.…
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SOLR Search Improves Elgg Search Accuracy by 90%
It's not a secret that search is a major performance hit to Elgg when you reach a certain size of database and user activity. Some time ago we made the…
Read MoreWe started ArckCloud out of frustration with the lack of affordable, reliable, application-oriented, cloud services to host the custom web applications we developed for our own clients at Arck Interactive.…
Read MoreWe're looking for talented Elgg/PHP developers to join our rapidly expanding team. Our ideal candidate kicks ass, chews bubble gum and has a proven track record developing highly scalable web…
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