Working With Nonprofits and News Organizations
A significant portion of our work has been with nonprofits and independent news outlets. That wasn't a deliberate strategy at first. It happened, and then it kept happening.
Documented WordPress website development story
Back in 2020, when the world was upside down, I met Documented NY, a small nonprofit news outlet in New York telling the...
How Rainmakers Started
In 2014, I was working in tech and not particularly proud of what I was building. I wanted to work on projects that matt...
What Rainmakers Is For
We work with people building things. What they have in common: they know what they're trying to do, they have real const...
How Our Projects Actually Run
A project without clear scope is expensive guessing. Before we build anything, we define what's included and what isn't....
The Questions Before the Code
Most bad web projects fail in the briefing phase, not the development phase. We spend time at the start asking questions...
What We Tell Clients Who Don't Need Us Yet
We've told people to wait. To not launch yet. To not hire us for this particular problem. That advice is free. We'd rath...