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You imagine. We create. Arck Interactive is a boutique software development agency based in Portland, Oregon. We create delightful user experiences that solve complex business problems with a calculated and thoughtful application of technology.
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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 largest organizations and corporate institutions.
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Laravel-Ionic Platforms
Dailyclout Billcam
The Challenge: DailyClout 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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codeigniter: CodeIgniter Platforms
Etalon Diagnostics
The Challenge: Etalon provides genetic identification for performance and companion animals (think 23andMe for horses). We were brought on to re-architect their aging, CodeIgniter-based genetic testing platform in a modern stack, introducing a new brand and current design patterns.
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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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Elgg Platforms
Native Climate
The Challenge: Develop a web-based community platform to allow reservation high school environmental and Earth science classrooms and tribal college freshman science classes to communicate about climate change and how it is impacting tribal communities.
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Featured.
Now more than ever is a time for change. We’re working to reconstruct how we participate in democracy with visionary George A. Polisner, Founder of Civic Works (civ.works).
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Elgg Platforms
civ.works
The Challenge: Develop a new type of social network focused on increasing civic engagement and building consensus on important social and political issues. The platform consumes actionable political and civil issues from a variety of sources and delivers them to members in real-time, with customizable alerts, based on the member's issue affinity. Members can share and discuss actions to build consensus and increase the power of their actions.
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George A. Polisner
Founder, Civic Works (civ.works)
We’re working to reconstruct how we participate in democracy.
Now more than ever is the time for change. Our population shows great divides but it doesn’t have to stay that way. It’s time we start looking out for each other. Our voices matter, but so do our actions. Make sure they count.
civ.works empowers users to find and discuss the issues most important to them. This database provides guidance on how to make tangible moves together—in communities of caring and committed people like yourself, united to make your voices heard.
By joining civ.works, users can affect policy from the ground up and begin to dismantle systemic obstacles to direct large-scale political and economic action.
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
codeigniter: CodeIgniter Platforms
Etalon Diagnostics
The Challenge: Etalon provides genetic identification for performance and companion animals (think 23andMe for horses). We were brought on to re-architect their aging, CodeIgniter-based genetic testing platform in a modern stack, introducing a new brand and current design patterns.
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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.
View Case Study
Laravel-Ionic Platforms
Dailyclout Billcam
The Challenge: DailyClout 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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We Elgg.
While we work with almost every platform on the LAMP stack, Elgg is our platform of choice. We’re one of the first firms to provide a full range of custom Elgg development services. In the past five years, we’ve launched more enterprise class social networks based on the Elgg framework that anyone else. If you’re considering Elgg for a new project, or need help enhancing an existing platform, you’ve come to the right place.
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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…
Read MoreWe've implemented significant infrastructure optimizations in the past 24 hours that have allowed us to offer more horsepower at a drastically lower price for all of ArckCloud's hosting packages. We're…
Read MoreArckCloud Managed Cloud Hosting I'd like to introduce our latest venture, a managed hosting service called ArckCloud. It’s geared towards clients who demand a high level of service, availability and…
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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