We worked with Napster's in-house team on its web backend and early research for a new product initiative. This was a bounded engagement within the existing platform.
Napster's products and ownership have changed over time. This page covers our backend and R&D engagement; it does not claim ownership of the platform or imply that the same product initiative is still active.
We contributed to the web-facing backend in a large, established codebase. Changes had to be reliable and compatible with the team's existing engineering workflows.
The R&D work covered an early product initiative: prototyping features that had not shipped, evaluating technical approaches and helping assess feasibility. We tested ideas, discarded unsuccessful approaches and refined the ones that showed promise.
We worked within Napster's code standards and delivery process, coordinating changes with the in-house team on a platform serving a global audience. Clear communication and code quality were part of that day-to-day work.
We built TwoMargins' SEC document parser and collaborative annotation platform. Bloomberg used it for Warren Buffett's 2015 shareholder letter, and the Wall Street Journal covered the product.
See the TwoMargins project
