"To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
Shouldn't technology be made to create shared value among its users?
Distractions, entertainment, and social media all have their times and places. In a saturated market, our focus at 217 Studios is on creating web-based resources and tools that lead to individual empowerment.
The beauty of spinning products off of our own in-house framework (we call it the Gazelle) is that it allows us to easily generate solutions for any kind of client and any kind of problem. Sometimes this means playing around with neat new features in ways that ordinary people can enjoy in a free sandbox. The greatest hits end up as their own self-contained products.