Carbon Five
Based in San Francisco with a second office in West LA, we have been building state-of-the-art web applications for startups and large institutions since early 2000. Since our inception, we have focused on quality and value as the critical components of project success.
Location
San Francisco, California, United StatesNumber of Employees
11-30Services
- Ruby on Rails Development
- Training/Coaching/Mentoring
- Mobile/iPhone Development
- API Integration/Development
Portfolio
- Aardvark
Challenge: Working product early

A small team of ex-Google employees and experienced entrepreneurs formed The Mechanical Zoo (TMZ) to create a social search product named Aardvark. Aardvark is a convenient service for people to ask and answer questions over instant message, mobile and email.
With little time to spare and limited technical resources, TMZ wanted to get a working product in users hands. They needed to validate their concept, test new ideas and collect data on usage patterns for future product design.
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- Project completed in 2009
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Challenge: Starting from scratch

In 2008 Jae Chung, a seasoned pharmaceutical executive, set out to create a new company and product to serve the pharmaceutical outsourcing industry. With no brand or technical team he wanted to launch a product early to start the process of building a strong customer base.
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- Project completed in 2009

