Travel planning starts in a variety of places but a majority of it is text: notes, emails, articles, etc. Tripnotes is a text-native app – getting into our ecosystem is as easy as copy / paste. All context is preserved and helpful UI is drawn inline and on the map panel. Anyone can start using Tripnotes in seconds

Using AI to generate travel plans is magic, but using plans when you arrive at your destination needs to be simple & seamless. Enter iOS 16 and Live Activities. Now you can explore freely without the stress of missing a place or reservation.

TikTok is an incredible resource for travel inspiration, so Tripnotes tapped into that. Found a great recommendation? Share to Tripnotes (or paste in the link) and Tripnotes will find each place, map them and connect all the helpful details. Simple as that.

Custom trained AI models generated over 300 million unique data points

Tripnotes is designed to streamline travel planning by automatically parsing various types of media to identify and organize mentioned destinations. Whether through copied text, URLs, or videos, the app intelligently extracts location information. For websites, Tripnotes reads and parses pages to identify places; for videos, it analyzes on-screen text and converts speech to text to pinpoint locations. After identifying places, Tripnotes maps each location and aggregates rich media, user reviews, and contact information, creating a comprehensive travel resource tailored to the user's interests and inputs.

The best places for you at the right moment with Realtime

Welcome leveraged a sophisticated real-time recommendation engine, utilizing a vast data library of over 16 million places to provide users with highly personalized suggestions. This engine accounted for a user's past interactions and preferences, as well as recommendations from friends and trusted publishers. By analyzing factors such as the time of day, current weather conditions, and traffic information, Welcome ensured that its recommendations were both relevant and timely.

Virtual Collaboration

Whiteboard was envisioned as a next-generation visual collaboration tool for VR, designed to make remote teamwork feel as cohesive and interactive as being in the same room. It combined a VR software app, a mobile app, and a cloud network to allow team members, regardless of their physical location, to collaborate around an infinite virtual whiteboard. This platform supported dynamic interaction with multimedia content and provided a seamless integration between virtual and mobile interfaces. Whiteboard aimed to transform the remote collaboration landscape by leveraging VR to enhance the natural and intuitive interaction among team members.

Your phone is the window into your virtual space when not in VR.

The mobile app component of Whiteboard was designed to streamline the management and creation of virtual meetings. It provided functionalities for scheduling, accessing files, reviewing and annotating documents, and even playing back old meetings, all from a user's mobile device. This app acted as a central hub, syncing with the VR platform through a cloud-based infrastructure to ensure seamless integration and continuity. The mobile app allowed users to manage room settings and media, making it easier to prepare and execute collaborative sessions efficiently.

Imagining a UX for VR from the ground up

In developing Whiteboard, our ideal scenario involved eliminating controllers altogether in favor of intuitive hand tracking, allowing users to interact with the VR environment as naturally as in the real world. However, the technology at the time—and arguably still today—did not fully support this vision, necessitating the use of controllers for more precise interactions. This situation underscored the broader challenge in VR development: the lack of a definitive standards for UI/UX design. As a result, our approach had to be experimental, adapting to current technologies while exploring innovative ways to integrate natural user interactions within the constraints of existing hardware.

Creating VR experiences means thinking about architecture

Envisioning the virtual room for Whiteboard was a creatively rich and technically challenging process. We aimed to design a space that was not only functional but also inspiring, where remote teams could feel genuinely connected and engaged. Inspired by diverse environments, from planetariums to cinematic and gaming scenarios, we chose a design that placed users at the center, allowing equal access and visibility to all content and participants. This central, equidistant design helped minimize physical movement and maximize interaction, addressing both the psychological and practical aspects of collaboration in a virtual environment.

Multiplayer Beta

In the multiplayer beta version of Whiteboard, we successfully implemented a virtual environment where two users could collaborate in real-time, manipulating media and sharing ideas as if they were in the same physical space. This prototype demonstrated the potential of VR for enhancing collaborative efforts across distances, with participants interacting through a mix of hand tracking and controllers. However, the test also made it evident that the hardware technology of the time was not yet adequate for widespread commercial deployment. Issues like limited processing power, connectivity, and user comfort revealed that VR technology still needed significant advancements before becoming a viable platform for startup ventures in the enterprise space.

A Movie Studio in your Pocket

Cameo revolutionized mobile video editing with its cloud-based rendering technology, enabling users to produce high-quality HD videos effortlessly. This platform allowed individuals to collaborate on video projects with friends, capturing moments together no matter where they were. The social features of Cameo extended beyond creation, as it enabled users to follow friends and share their videos within a vibrant network. These elements combined to make Cameo a powerful tool that turned everyday videos into shared cinematic experiences.

How Cameo works.

Cameo demo walk through featuring the team.

Cameo was an Editor’s Choice and named ‘Best of’ 2013 by Apple

Being named Apple's Editor's Choice and one of the Best Apps of the Year was a significant milestone for Cameo, underscoring its excellence and innovation in video editing. This prestigious recognition greatly enhanced Cameo's visibility, leading to a surge in downloads and increased credibility among users worldwide. Such an accolade from Apple marked a definitive moment of success, setting Cameo apart as a leader in the app marketplace.

The Year of Video

I collaborated with two remarkable designers on the Cameo team, Pat White and Mitchell Hart, who brought a versatile skill set ranging from UI/UX design to motion graphics, as well as directing and shooting. They directed and produced 'The Year of Video,' a showcase highlighting the exceptional content from our community, which I find both powerful and inspiring.

Cinematic Themes

With Cameo, we revolutionized mobile video editing by creating cutting-edge themes that transformed user-generated content into cinematic experiences. These themes featured advanced elements such as motion intros and outros, sophisticated color grading, and stylish text options. Unique to our approach was the use of cloud-based rendering, which, at the time, set Cameo apart by allowing complex video processing that mobile devices alone couldn’t handle. Additionally, each theme concluded with a distinct motion graphic Cameo, adding a personalized touch that varied with each theme.

Miley Cyrus and her band shared their behind the scene adventures with Cameo.

Tony Hawk enthusiastically shares Cameo as his favorite new app during an interview with Kevin Rose at Web Summit.

The Cameo Founders

Celebrating over half a million downloads in our first week.

Vimeo Acquisition

We always believed Vimeo was the ideal home for Cameo, given our shared DNA in video innovation, product design, and filmmaker support. When Vimeo acquired us, our entire team transitioned over, and I took on the role of Vice President, overseeing Cameo and mobile video creation. Under Vimeo, Cameo became the default mobile video editor, continuing to shape the landscape of video content creation.

Text + Talk + Find

Fast Society was a communication app designed to make it easier for groups to stay connected, especially during events or outings. It combined group text messaging with one-touch conference calling, catering to users looking for a more straightforward way to coordinate with friends on-the-go. The service worked on virtually any mobile phone and was praised for simplifying group communication.

SXSW House Party

During SXSW 2012, unofficially the year of group texting, we threw a massive "House Party" that quickly became an annual highlight. Amid a fierce competition with other apps, we aimed to sign up the most users, host the biggest events, and cover Austin in our promotional stickers.

Pop Culture Stock Market

Edopter introduced "social trendcasting," a novel blend of crowdsourcing and internet buzz to forecast upcoming trends. Users could spotlight potential or current "hot" trends, exploring and joining movements across categories like people, places, things, ideas, fashion, media, and the web. Diving into discussions, they shared images, videos, news links, and more on each category page. Our advanced algorithm tracked user demographics, behaviors, and influences to refine trend predictions.

The Showcase

The Showcase enabled brands to target Edopter's key users, known for their history of fostering product and idea growth within their key demographics. In many ways this is a very early example of the influencer strategy most brands employ today.

The Suit Vers 3.0

From Esquire Magazine: “Computers may have changed some in the last fifty years, but a killer suit is still the best way to command respect in the workplace. Here, the next generation of Web Heavies mix sharp tailoring with unexpected twists, and even try to sell us on tier startups.”

Pushing Pixels

Co-founders hard at work. Twenty five years old and no idea what we were doing. The beginning of a long journey.